Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780316221047 (031622104X)
ASIN: 031622104X
Publish date: 2014-02-11
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 592
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Cultural,
Science,
War,
Military,
Politics,
American History,
World War II,
Holocaust,
Germany
Earlier this year, I attended a book reading by the author Anne Jacobsen about this subject, which was complete with a rather impressive slide presentation. What she said about Operation Paperclip that day not only induced me to buy this book later that week. But more importantly, it forever altered...
The logic was simple. If we don't get them, the Russians will. Operation Paperclip (originally Operation Overcast) started in 1945 and was a project in which the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) actively recruited Nazi scientists, engineers, chemists, and doctors to come to America and d...
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