Operation Paperclip

The Central Intelligence Agency Hunted Down Top Nazi Scientists After World War 2 to Convince Them to Help Develop Weapons and the Space Program. These Nazis and Their Families Received Full American Citizenship.

The enemy was Nazi Germany and defeating it was the goal of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. The first cracks in the marriage of convenience that had made them allies appeared in February 1945, at the Yalta Conference, where President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Josef Stalin […]

The Central Intelligence Agency Hunted Down Top Nazi Scientists After World War 2 to Convince Them to Help Develop Weapons and the Space Program. These Nazis and Their Families Received Full American Citizenship. Read More »