Jacobsen persuasively shows that it in fact happened and aptly frames the dilemma. 'As comprehensive as it is critical, this latest expose from Jacobsen is perhaps her most important work to date. The result is a book that is at once chilling and riveting, and one that raises substantial and difficult questions about national honor and security.This book is a remarkable achievement of investigative reporting and historical writing.'- Boston Globe 'With Annie Jacobsen's OPERATION PAPERCLIP for the first time the enormity of the effort has been laid bare. She confronts us with the full extent of Paperclip's deal with the devil, and it's difficult to look away.'- Matt Damsker, USA Today (4 stars) Jacobsen's book allows us to explore these questions with the ultimate tool: hard evidence. One of iBooks' Top Ten Nonfiction Books of the Year One of The Boston Globe's Best Books of 2014 Strangelove came to America and thrived, told in graphic detail.' -Kirkus Reviews In this definitive, controversial look at one of America's most strategic, and disturbing, government programs, Jacobsen shows just how dark government can get in the name of national security. Was Operation Paperclip a moral outrage, or did it help America win the Cold War?ĭrawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, and with access to German archival documents (including previously unseen papers made available by direct descendants of the Third Reich's ranking members), files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and dossiers discovered in government archives and at Harvard University, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into a startling, complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secret of the twentieth century. They were also directly responsible for major advances in rocketry, medical treatments, and the U.S. Many of these men were accused of war crimes, and others had stood trial at Nuremberg one was convicted of mass murder and slavery.

So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States.

These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine.

government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. The “remarkable” story of America's secret post-WWII science programs ( The Boston Globe), from the New York Times bestselling author of Area 51.

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