Operation/Project Paperclip Gets Closer To Mainstream - How America Recruited, Protected And Pay Nazis To This Day (Video)

(N.Morgan) Operation Paperclip was instituted during World War II to enlist and recruit German scientists by the Air Force to conduct human radiation tests during the Cold War. Project Paperclip was a postwar and Cold War operation carried out by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA).1 [Operation Paperclip’s code name was said to have originated because scientific recruits’ papers were paperclipped with regular immigration forms. The JIOA was a special intelligence office reporting to the Director of Intelligence in the War Department, comparable to the intelligence chief of today’s Joint Chiefs of Staff.] Paperclip had two aims: to exploit German scientists for American research and to deny these intellectual resources to the Soviet Union At least 1,600 scientists and their dependents were recruited and brought to the United States by Paperclip and its successor projects through the early 1970s. The most famous of these was Wernher von Braun.



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