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 ...

In her new book “Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program to Bring Nazi Scientists to America” (Little, Brown and Company), author Annie Jacobsen uses newly released documents ...

So Project Paperclip had to smuggle them out to Long Island to keep Immigration, Customs and, more importantly, the State Department from finding out they were here, according to Kolm.

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, ...

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 ...

Book Review: 'Operation Paperclip' In the final months of World War II, the United States undertook an enormous effort to attract Nazi scientists to the U.S. Writer Annie Jacobsen's new book, ...