Legitimate question... I thought Operation Paperclip just brought over the Nazi scientists after WWII? What am I missing? We're there politicians or other Nazi party members included?
In all, more than 1,600 Nazis were given safe haven in the United States so their skills and knowledge could be exploited to maintain American military superiority.
They were also recruited by intelligence agencies during the Cold War.
That makes more sense, I didn't realize it affected intelligence communities as well.
There’s a book by Eric Lichtblau called the Nazis Next Door that explores it.
The CIA helped other Nazis gain access to the US to covertly collect information on Communists as part of an overzealous Cold War policy. Elizabeth Holtzman described the book as a "fast paced, important book about the justice department's efforts to bring Nazi war criminals in the United States to justice that also uses recently declassified facts to expose the secret, reprehensible collaboration of U. S. intelligence agencies with those very Nazis". source
Legitimate question... I thought Operation Paperclip just brought over the Nazi scientists after WWII? What am I missing? We're there politicians or other Nazi party members included?
They were also recruited by intelligence agencies during the Cold War.
That makes more sense, I didn't realize it affected intelligence communities as well.
There’s a book by Eric Lichtblau called the Nazis Next Door that explores it.