Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, and with access to German archival documents (including papers made available to her by direct descendants of the Third Reich's ranking members), files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and lost dossiers discovered at the National Archives and Harvard University, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into one of the most complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secrets of the 20th century.Īnnie Jacobsen, an investigative reporter and former contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine, tells the unbelievable but true story of how American military leadership schemed to hire Hitler’s weapons makers for their own organizations in the chaos following World War II. government secretly decided that the value of these former Nazis' knowledge outweighed their crimes and began a covert operation code-named Paperclip to allow them to work in the U.S. In the chaos following WWII, some of the greatest spoils of Germany's resources were the Third Reich's scientific minds. Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence That Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Little Brown and Company)Īfter exposing the untold history behind Area 51, Annie Jacobsen tackles one of the most explosive American secrets post WWII.
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