![]() ![]() government have picked the German scientists’ brains and then used the knowledge for American purposes? ![]() ![]() have shrugged its shoulders and let the Russians capture these scientists? Or should the U.S. It becomes a deeply ambivalent, yet moral question. Others saw it as a way to check the emergence of the Cold War. Yet there was great consternation on the part of some Americans that Nazi scientists, many of them war criminals, were invited to live in America post-war. military officials I focused on was that they liked and respected these German scientists, some of whom were in Hitler’s inner circle. What surprised me about a couple of the U.S. You call Operation Paperclip a dark, complicated program created by Machiavellian connivers. The prologue of your book was very forceful, angry in fact. ![]() Our conversation has been edited for length. development of weapons of war and instruments to explore space. Her new book, Operation Paperclip, The Secret intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America, is a detailed and disturbing account of how former cohorts of Adolf Hitler, many responsible for gruesome criminal acts during the Second World War, were allowed into America to assist in the U.S. Several years ago she wrote a book called Area 51 about top-secret military testing sites. Journalist Annie Jacobsen has been very interested in the history of the United States military for the past few years. ![]()
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