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Our World War II Veterans Would Be Shocked To Know About Operation Paperclip... First known as Operation Overcast, Operation Paperclip and then also Project Paperclip; a program of the office of Strategic Services predecessor to the CIA in which some of the former Nazi scientists from Germany had been brought over to operate within the United States Of America. It is believed that many of those scientists had been involved in many high end technological advancements for the Nazis. The Americans greatly desired to control this technology and intelligence after the end of the war. The problem was that U.S. regulation prohibited German Nazis from immigrating to the United States. They didn't want to lose those clever Nazis to other nations such as Russia, so a little handiwork by future CIA Director Allen Dulles tweaked a few things and got them over to the United States to carry on many more top secret programs. Roosevelt and Truman strongly opposed this program and Truman was ultimately sold the bill of goods primarily based on lies coming from the military and Strategic Services. A number of these Nazis were infamous war criminals despatched to places like Argentina to do further research for the United States. This was done so that their crimes couldn't be exposed and connected with Operation Paperclip. More than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians, such as Wernher von Braun and his V-2 rocket team, were taken from Germany to the United States, primarily between 1945 and 1959. Wernher von Braun, in particular, was guilty of war crimes. Yet when he reached America he was treated as a savior against the rising Soviet menace and even helped NASA put men on the moon in 1969. This is a matter of consequential ethics — The good values that spawned from the ethical dilemmas of World War II can be difficult to sort through... and do the ends ever really justify the means? |
