At the end of World War II, there was a race between the Russians and the Americans to plunder the scientific knowledge of the Nazi regime. Operation Paperclip was the code name this technically illegal program operated under.

1. OPERATION
PAPERCLIP

2. This was an OSS, Office of Strategic Services,
program which brought over 1,500 Germans to the
United States after World War II.
Operation Paperclip

3. The OSS was in a race with the Russians at the
end of the world to reap the cream of the Nazi
scientific corps and utilize them.
The OSS was the precursor to the CIA.

4. President Truman formally signed the authorization
for Paperclip in August 1945, but the race for the
Nazi braintrust had started even before the war
ended.

5. Truman’s order prohibited any person who had been an
“active supporter of Nazi militarism”. This exclusion was often
ignored.
The most valued scientists came out of the Nazi missile
program.

6. There were also
scientists who’d
worked in the Nazi
chemical weapons
program. There was
also Operation Alsos
which focused on
Nazi nuclear
scientists and
Operation TICOM
which went after
German cryptologists.

7. Werner Von Braun is one of the more famous of these
scientists. He worked on the V-2 program and then the
United States rocket program, especially the Apollo
program. He’d been a member of the Nazi Party and
the SS.

8. Also part of Operation Paperclip, was the
recruitment of Japanese scientists and doctors
from the infamous Unit 731. That is the subject of
a different slideshare.

9. It is estimated that Paperclip scientists ended up
contributing over 10 billion in patents and industrial
processes, as well as critical help to our space
program.

10. Do the ends justify the means?
Besides wanting the expertise, and denying it to the
Russians, another aspect of Paperclip was to
remove these scientists from post-war Germany so
they couldn’t contribute to their own country.

11. What if there were more to Operation Paperclip
than we know? Parts of it are still classified to this
day.
While Von Braun and others worked at Fort Bliss,
what if some were sent to Area 51 to study a rather
unique problem?

12. In the first book in the Area 51 series, one of those
scientists from Operation Paperclip plays a key role.
Area 51

13. Area 51- Book One
Since before the dawning of modern man, an
alien mothership and nine abandoned flying
saucers have been hidden away in Area 51, a
top-secret military base in the Nevada desert.
There, scientists have studied the crafts, hoping to
unlock the secrets of the alien technology and,
perhaps, the origins of life on Earth. But now a
deranged general wants to activate the
mothership’s interstellar drive—and the
consequences could prove catastrophic for
humankind.
Dr. Hans Von Seeckt—an elderly scientist, ex-
Nazi, and original member of the Area 51
research team—joins up with the president’s
science adviser, Dr. Lisa Duncan, and Special
Forces officer Mike Turcotte to put a stop to the
planned test flight and tell the public the truth
about Area 51. Meanwhile, a brilliant
archaeologist, Professor Nabinger, discovers a
message on runes found in ancient Egypt that
could change everything we think we know about
human evolution and the role that alien visitation
may have played in it.

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