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Operation Paperclip
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secret program of the US to bring German scientists, including former Nazis, into the US to work for the US government
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- covert operation
- Part of
- aftermath of World War II
- Image
- Project Paperclip Team at Fort Bliss.jpg
- Participant
- Wernher von Braun
- Organizer
- Counterintelligence Corps
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- has goal
- relocation
- end time
- 1959-00-00
- topic's main category
- Category:Operation Paperclip
- Commons category
- Operation Paperclip
- start time
- 1945-00-00
- has characteristic
- controversy
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Encyclopedic overview
Kurt Debus (front row, third from the left), a former V-2 rocket scientist and SS officer who became a NASA director, sitting between US president John F. Kennedy and US vice president Lyndon B. Johnson in 1962 at a briefing at Blockhouse 34, Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex
Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the US for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959; several were confirmed to be former members of the Nazi Party, including the SS or the SA.
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