How Operation Paperclip helped fuel the space race. In the 1950s and 1960s, the American space program accelerated as the U.S. and Soviet Union vied to put a man on the moon.

With Operation Paperclip, Jacobsen shows how governmental secrecy and its blinkered morality veiled, for so long, the enormity of Nazi crimes perpetrated by the hundreds of technologists who were ...

It’s called “Operation Paperclip,” a name so administrative and banal only Army intelligence could have come up with it, and, in fact, they did. The program launched in 1945 and entailed the ...

Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 Nazi German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for ...

Operation Paperclip recruits were merely continuing what they did before the war ended. We can trace much of what the United States knows about supersonic flight technology back to the Nazi ...

Operation Paperclip, despite its innocent-sounding name, was a top secret project that occurred during the final months of the Second World War as the allied forces of Great Britain, ...

Thus began Project Paperclip, the US operation which saw von Braun and more than 700 others spirited out of Germany from under the noses of the US's allies. Its aim was simple: "To exploit German ...

Operation Paperclip: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Let Nazis Take Me To The Moon And Back By Sarah Bernat Published Feb 14, 2023 7:49 AM Theodore von Karman, the first director of ...

In Operation Paperclip immediately after World War II, the United States and its allies evacuated more than 1,500 scientists and engineers from Germany.