Operation Paperclip Operation Paperclip was a secret program of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) largely carried out by special agents of Army CIC, in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians, such as Wernher von Braun and his V-2 rocket team, were taken from Germany to the United States, for U.S. government employment, primarily between 1945 and 1959. Many were former members, and some were former leaders, of the Nazi Party.

In a secret directive circulated on September 3, 1946, President Truman officially approved Operation Paperclip and expanded it to include one thousand German scientists under “temporary, limited military custody”

We would recruit Nazi war criminals to help us advance in our Weapon War Technology quicker the Soviet Union once the Cold War began, in which these Nazis were all pardon. Even Kurt H. Debus, a former Nazi scientist was turned into NASA’s director.

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