In February 1945, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) set up T-Force, or Special Sections Subdivision, which grew to over 2,000 personnel by June. Many of these personnel were former members and some were former leaders of the Nazi Party.

Conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), it was largely carried out by special agents of the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 19. Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. Johnson in 1962 at a briefing at Blockhouse 34, Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex Debus, a former V-2 rocket scientist who became a NASA director, sitting between U.S.

In this definitive, controversial look at one of America’s most strategic, and disturbing, government programs, Jacobsen shows just how dark government can get in the name of national security.Kurt H. Was Operation Paperclip a moral outrage, or did it help America win the Cold War?ĭrawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, and with access to German archival documents (including previously unseen papers made available by direct descendants of the Third Reich’s ranking members), files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and dossiers discovered in government archives and at Harvard University, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into a startling, complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secret of the twentieth century. They were also directly responsible for major advances in rocketry, medical treatments, and the U.S. Many of these men were accused of war crimes, and others had stood trial at Nuremberg one was convicted of mass murder and slavery. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler’s scientists and their families to the United States. These were the brains behind the Nazis’ once-indomitable war machine. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich’s scientific minds.

In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. The explosive story of America’s secret post-WWI science programs, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51.

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