The scientific accomplishments made by the Operation Paperclip scientists were many and significant. However, the lingering question which has always hung over the program and probably always will, is “were the German scientists who came over guilty of war crimes?” The vast majority of the Germa...
Operation Paperclip, means the US intelligence and military services freed scientists from Germany, during and after the World War II. The project was originally called Operation Overcast, and is so…
Operation Paperclip was run by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency and brought more than 1,600 Nazis to America. With the Nazis came rocket systems like ...
Operation Paperclip, named after the use of the ordinary paperclip attached to the personnel files of select German scientists, was a special operation of breathtaking scope. Instead of highly trained teams tasked for important combat missions, these teams were hunters and gatherers sifting and searc...
Wernher von Braun (center) in 1961 with fellow Operation Paperclip scientists working on a Saturn rocket. One of the most well-known recruits was Wernher von Braun, the technical director at the Peenemunde Army Research Center in Germany who was instrumental in developing the lethal V-2 rocket...
A list of 1500 German scientists and technicians was drawn up. Policy was to forcibly remove "whether they liked it or not" the scientists from Germany to lessen the risk of them falling into enemy hands. It was feared that if they were allowed to remain in Germany they might enable the...
American and German scientists, working with the CIA, then the military, started developing every possible method of controlling the mind. Lysergic Acid Diethylmide, LSD, was discovered at the Sandoz Laboratories, Basel, Switzerland, in 1939 by Albert Hoffman. This LSD was pure. No other ingredie...
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