Operation Paperclip was the code name for a monumental, illegal, importation of more than 1,600 high level fervent Nazi scientists, engineers, aerospace and munitions experts, chemists and physicians who developed Hitler’s deadly military technology. These men held pivotal positions in the Third . . . Continue reading →

Photos of 15 at: Annie Jacobsen. Operation Paperclip, 2014 Werner Von Braun, an aerodynamics expert and Nazi SS officer who developed the V-2 rockets that were used to blitzkrieg London and Antwerp. The rockets were constructed using slave labor from the Dora . . . Continue reading →

Operation Paperclip was initiated, organized, and implemented by an elite corps of U.S. intelligence officials who were tightly connected to the major banking and corporate business interests. Since its inception the CIA has been an elitist espionage agency dominated by a group of . . . Continue reading →

The Dulles brothers ascended to the pinnacle of power without ever being elected to office; they rose to power via Wall Street and the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. The Dulles brothers had a uniquely privileged upbringing, a long career advising . . . Continue reading →

Plans to capture Nazi Germany’s technological secrets began even before the war was over. U.S. military and intelligence officials sought better ammunition for ending the war with Japan; they wanted to ensure that Germany could not rearm itself; and they began to . . . Continue reading →

U.S. CIA and military secret service officials also offered asylum to the Nazi doctors who debased civilized medicine having used their medical knowledge to murder thousands of disabled German patients under the Nazi “euthanasia” killing programs. First, they used phenol injections; then . . . Continue reading →

Allen Dulles was the longest-serving CIA Director who dominated American intelligence for a generation. He personified a cadre of Ivy League pragmatic elitists in high echelons of the government who greatly admired Germany’s scientific achievements. Princeton educated, Dulles affected the demeanor of . . . Continue reading →

Major General Reinhard Gehlen was the brutal spymaster who headed Hitler’s Intelligence operations in the Eastern Front where he organized guerrilla units made up of right-wing groups of anti-Soviet Ukrainians and other Slavic nationalists to fight the Soviets. He was also responsible . . . Continue reading →

Paperclip Nazi scientists were highly sought—in particular by the air force and the CIA. They offered the scientists the opportunity to continue and expand their dark secret work under U.S. government auspices. Dr. Harry Armstrong, surgeon general of the U.S. Air Force, . . . Continue reading →

Inasmuch as these CIA recruits were war criminals, they could not enter the U.S. legally.  In February 1947, the first set of Paperclip scientists’ visa requests were denied after their dossiers were reviewed and rejected by both Departments of State and Justice. . . . Continue reading →

Some of Hitler’s most sinister accomplices extended the grossly unethical research paradigm from Dachau and Auschwitz to America where U.S. soldiers became the first “voluntary” guinea pigs in harm producing experiments, soon followed by unwitting civilians. Nerve gas: Dr. Friedrich “Fritz” Hoffmann, a . . . Continue reading →

CIA officials were particularly interested in importing Nazi doctors and chemists with experience in “scientific” interrogation techniques—“modifying behavior through covert means” –a euphemism for torture. That goal came into being with – ARTICHOKE, MK-ULTRA, BLUEBIRD– using dangerous psychoactive chemicals to brainwash, incapacitate and . . . Continue reading →

Dr. Huburtus Strughold, who came to be known as “The Father of American Space Medicine” was the wartime head of the Luftwaffe’s Institute for Aviation Medicine in Berlin which oversaw the heinous experiments conducted at Dachau; including freezing experiments, seawater experiments and . . . Continue reading →

Dr. Walter Schreiber headed radical interrogation techniques at Camp King. He was a Major General of the Wehrmacht who introduced lethal phenol injections “as a quick and convenient means of executing troublemakers.” He worked closely with high ranking doctors who conducted freezing experiments at . . . Continue reading →

Those who defend Operation Paperclip point to the achievements of those Nazi technological masterminds—in aerospace, rocket and guided missile technology, radar and infra-red sniper technology radiation, submarine warfare, incendiary bombs (including napalm, jellied gasoline) – mostly achievements in warfare technology. What the . . . Continue reading →

“America, which prided itself on being a safe haven for the persecuted, became — in some small measure — a safe haven for persecutors.” (DOJ Report. Striving for Accountability in the Aftermath of the Holocaust, 2006) In 2010, a secret 600-page Department of . . . Continue reading →

Looking back one wonders where were the mass protests against the importation of Nazi doctors and scientists? These were villains of the worst kind; criminals who had actively planned and devised “scientific” methods of torture, and developed the chemical methods used to . . . Continue reading →

Of note is the re-publication of Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy (2014; originally published in 1988) by Christopher Simpson who served as a member of the interagency advisory panel for the U.S. . . . Continue reading →

Hank P. Albarelli. A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments, 2009; CIA’s Denial of Protecting Nazis is Blatant Lie, Pt. 1, 2, 2010. Tom Bower in The Paperclip Conspiracy, 1987 Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey . . . Continue reading →