operation paperclip annie jacobsen barnes and noble

Goudsmit and two colleagues, bacteriological warfare experts Bill Cromartie and Fred Wardenberg, had been reading over Dr. Haagen had apparently fled his apartment in a hurry just a few days prior, leaving behind a framed photograph of Hitler on the mantel and a cache of important documents in the cabinets. Eugen Haagen, believed to be a key developer in the covert Nazi biological weapons program. The apartment belonged to a German virus expert named Dr. soldiers guarded the Dutch-American particle physicist Samuel Goudsmit as he sat in an armchair scouring files.

Air battles raged overhead, and in the center of town, inside a fancy apartment on Quai Kléber, armed U.S.

German mortar rounds bombarded the streets. Three days before, the Second French Armored Division had chased the Germans out of town and officially liberated the city from the Nazis, but now the Allies were having a difficult time holding the enemy back. The cobblestone streets of this medieval city were in chaos. It was November 26, 1944, and Strasbourg, France, was still under attack. Strangelove came to America and thrived, told in graphic detail.' -Kirkus Reviews Read Excerpt In this definitive, controversial look at one of America's most strategic, and disturbing, government programs, Jacobsen shows just how dark government can get in the name of national security. Was Operation Paperclip a moral outrage, or did it help America win the Cold War?ĭrawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, and with access to German archival documents (including previously unseen papers made available by direct descendants of the Third Reich's ranking members), files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and dossiers discovered in government archives and at Harvard University, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into a startling, complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secret of the twentieth century. They were also directly responsible for major advances in rocketry, medical treatments, and the U.S. Many of these men were accused of war crimes, and others had stood trial at Nuremberg one was convicted of mass murder and slavery. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. The “remarkable” story of America's secret post-WWII science programs ( The Boston Globe), from the New York Times bestselling author of Area 51.

Operation paperclip annie jacobsen barnes and noble