Operation Paperclip | Science, Spies, and Secrets

Operation Paperclip was a secret U.S. program during the Cold War that brought hundreds of German scientists, engineers, and technicians—many of whom had worked for the Nazi regime—to the United States after World War II.
In the waning days of World War II, a covert U.S. program began to reshape the trajectory of American technology, space exploration, and warfare capabilities. This program, later known as Project Paperclip, sought to secretly recruit German scientists—many of whom were deeply involved in the Nazi regime’s military projects—to work for the United States. The primary motivation? They should harness their expertise in rocketry, aerospace, and medical research and, perhaps even more pressingly, ensure that the Soviet Union wouldn’t claim these experts for its own burgeoning military and space programs. But Project Paperclip was far from a clean-cut tale of scientific recruitment. The moral implications of welcoming scientists who were, in some cases, complicit in Nazi war crimes have sparked intense debate, raising questions that echo to this day about the costs of progress.

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