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Operation Paperclip

The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

Annie Jacobsen

Operation Paperclip tells the explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs. The book delves into the difficult decisions the US government faced after the war, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds who were behind the once-indomitable Nazi war machine. The book explores the moral ambiguity of Operation Paperclip, a covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States to work on major advances in rocketry, medical treatments, and the US space program. Jacobsen draws on exclusive interviews and documents to follow over a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into a startling, complex, nefarious government secret of the twentieth century. This definitive, controversial look at one of America's most disturbing government programs shows just how dark government can get in the name of national security.
Publish Date
2014-02-11T00:00:00.000Z
2014-02-11T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
4.11
ISBN
8601417202630
Recommendations
1
Recommendations
2020-07-22T20:42:39.000Z
@SeanEngel The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a good book. See also: The Tuskeegee experiments, Project Paperclip, environmental racism, eugenics.      source