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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America QUOTES

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America QUOTES

21 " Because von Braun was a public figure, his Nazi past was always there, but in shadow. By the 1960s, it was sometimes treated as a joke. One night, before an Apollo mission, von Braun stormed out of a press conference after a reporter asked him if he could guarantee that the rocket would not hit London. "

― Annie Jacobsen , Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

22 " To jog the prisoners’ memories back to the reality of their grave situation we decided to show them atrocity films taken at Buchenwald.” Colonel Andrus assembled his fifty-two Nazi prisoners in one room. Before the film began, he addressed them with the following words: “You know about these things and I have no doubt many of you participated actively in them. We are showing them to you not to inform you of what you already know, but to impress on you the fact that we know of it, too. "

― Annie Jacobsen , Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

23 " In order to successfully unleash a biological weapon against an enemy force, the attacking army had to have already created its own vaccine against the deadly pathogen it intended to spread. This vaccine would act as the shield for its own soldiers and civilians; the biological weapon would act as the sword. "

― Annie Jacobsen , Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

24 " And yet in less than a year Arthur Rudolph, Georg Rickhey, Wernher von Braun, Major General Walter Dornberger, and other rocket engineers would secretly be heading to America to work. In the last days of World War II few would ever have believed such a thing. "

― Annie Jacobsen , Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

25 " If it came out that the State Department was providing not only safe haven but employment opportunities for Nazi scientists in the United States, that would be cause for an international scandal. "

― Annie Jacobsen , Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

26 " After four days of deliberation Truman gave his official approval of the program and agreed that Operation Paperclip should be expanded to include one thousand German scientists and technicians and allow for their eventual immigration to the United States. "

― Annie Jacobsen , Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America