Operation Paperclip

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In the chaos following WWII, some of the greatest spoils of Germany's resources were the Third Reich's scientific minds.... (more)

In the chaos following WWII, some of the greatest spoils of Germany's resources were the Third Reich's scientific minds. The U.S. government secretly decided that the value of these former Nazis' knowledge outweighed their crimes and began a covert operation code-named Paperclip to allow them to work in the U.S. without the public's full knowledge. (less)