author Annie Jacobsen explains, that's because the Americans invited about 600 scientists who had toiled on behalf of the Nazis into their own defence-department research and development programs after the war.

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.Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America, by Annie Jacobsen, (Little, Brown, 575 pages, hardcover, $33 hardcover, $14.99 Kobo/Kindle) - Sixty years after Second World War, the Nazi mass murders committed by scientists remain secrets hidden in U.S. 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-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51

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