Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, and with access to German archival documents (including papers made available to her by direct descendants of the Third Reich's ranking members), files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and lost dossiers discovered at the National Archives and Harvard University, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into one of the most complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secrets of the 20th century. government secretly decided that the value of these former Nazis' knowledge outweighed their crimes and began a covert operation code-named Paperclip to allow them to work in the U.S. In the chaos following WWII, some of the greatest spoils of Germany's resources were the Third Reich's scientific minds. According to Annie Jacobsens 'Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America,' Osenberg was a devout member of the Nazi Party an SS member, at that when he was tasked in 1943 to put together an exhaustive list of the best scientific minds Germany had to offer. According to Annie Jacobsen's 'Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America,' Osenberg was a devout member of the Nazi Party an SS member, at that when he was tasked in 1943 to put together an exhaustive list of the best scientific minds Germany had to offer. The explosive, dark secrets behind America's post-WWII science programs from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51.
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