Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program to Bring Nazi Scientists to America - Softcover

Annie Jacobsen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316277444 ISBN 13: 9780316277440

Publisher: Little Brown and Company, 2014

Synopsis

Very slight signs of age or use, three page corners folded, slight damage to tips of corners, no crease to spine, nice photo section.

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About the Author

Annie Jacobsen is a journalist and the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.

From Booklist

*Starred Review* By the end of 1945, the alliance of the Western powers with the Soviet Union had frayed, and the basic outlines of what would become the Cold War had taken shape. At the same time, military, scientific, and political leaders in the U.S. had become acutely aware of the value of German scientists responsible for great advances in rocketry and biological research under the Nazis. So, in August 1945, President Truman authorized the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), a division of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), to aggressively “recruit” German scientists to come to the U.S. and to work for various government-affiliated programs. Truman had stipulated that members of the Nazi Party were not to be included. As Jacobsen, an investigative journalist, illustrates, the JIOA adroitly sidestepped Truman’s directive through an intense program of fraud and deception. Documents were forged or altered, wartime activities were covered up, and, in some cases, entirely new identities were created, all in the service of our national interest. Some of these men were only marginal Nazis, but some were fervent “true believers” directly responsible for war crimes. This is an engrossing and deeply disturbing exposé that poses ultimate questions of means versus ends. --Jay Freeman

Edition details

• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316277444
• ISBN 13: 9780316277440
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544