Operation Paperclip

Remembering ‘Operation Paperclip,’ when national security trumped ethical concern

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/operation-paperclip-national-security-trumped-ethical-concern/

Published on Mar 31, 2014

After World War II, the government recruited dedicated Nazis — the scientists behind Hitler's formidable war machine — to come to the U.S. to protect American interests during the Cold War. Jeffrey Brown talks to journalist Annie Jacobsen about her new book, "Operation Paperclip," which sheds light on this veiled national security program and confronts the moral conundrum of whitewashing the past.

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Operation Paperclip: The tight-knit relationship between the United States and the Nazis after World War II, including the wholesale continuation of the Nazi Eastern Front Intelligence Unit, known as the Gehlen Organization
http://www.thepeopleshistory.net/2014/03/operation-paperclip-and-gehlen.html

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