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Also known as Project Paperclip, Operation Overcast, Defense Scientists Immigration Program

secret program of the US to bring German scientists, including former Nazis, into the US to work for the US government

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Instance of
covert operation
Image
Project Paperclip Team at Fort Bliss.jpg
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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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Operation Paperclip” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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