Operation Paperclip

Operation Paperclip tells the explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs. The book delves into the difficult decisions the US government faced after the war, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds who were behind the once-indomitable Nazi war machine. The book explores the moral ambiguity of Operation Paperclip, a covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States to work on major advances in rocketry, medical treatments, and the US space program. Jacobsen draws on exclusive interviews and documents to follow over a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into a startling, complex, nefarious government secret of the twentieth century. This definitive, controversial look at one of America's most disturbing government programs shows just how dark government can get in the name of national security.