Well more broadly the US had to adapt far reaching initiatives that were close to National Socialism to win the war. You had governments controlling everything through rationing, cracking down on war desent, domestic spying yada yada.
And following the war the importation of German scientists and specialists continuing working under those same initiatives bleed into and influenced those programs, that they became the same things the US fought against. The American space race was a continuination of the German rocket program, for example.
I'm wondering what some of the smart people on this forum feel about this theory
It did. We put Nazi's in the CIA. They fucked the place up pretty good. It's part of the reason we kept the cold war going with Russia. The US had no natural reason to care about them, but ex-Nazi's had a score to settle.
The CIA doesn't like to let internal information out, but there are a few documents you can find, which show exactly this. They brought in the enemy and quickly lost control of the effort.
For YouTube videos that actually discuss this, you could look at Feral Historian's The Two Eagles series. German officers from the SS and Gestapo found jobs in just about every major American authority post WW2, including the CIA, NSA, FBI and the courts.