
Operation Paperclip (1945-1959) brought over 1,600 German scientists to the US, including rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun (who used slave labor at Mittelbau-Dora) and chemical weapons experts. President Truman explicitly forbade recruiting active Nazis, but the JIOA systematically falsified biographies, destroyed incriminating records, and created clean files — hence 'Paperclip' (referring to paperclips on sanitized files). The program gave the US its space program and biological/chemical weapons capabilities. Roughly half of the recruited scientists had been Nazi Party members. The program remained classified for decades.
The US secretly recruited 1,600+ Nazi scientists, whitewashing their war crimes records, in direct violation of Truman's orders
“The US government recruited Nazi war criminals and whitewashed their records to exploit their scientific expertise, violating the President's own orders.”
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“These German specialists are being employed under strict military supervision for purposes critical to national security. No war criminals have been recruited.”
— US War Department · Mar 1946
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“These German specialists are being employed under strict military supervision for purposes critical to national security. No war criminals have been recruited.”
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