Operation Paperclip: The Secret Nazi Scientists Program

Annie Jacobsen reveals the explosive dark secrets behind America's post-World War II science programs. In the chaos following World War II, some of the greatest spoils of Germany's resources were the Third Reich's scientific minds. The U.S. government secretly decided that the value of these former Nazis' knowledge outweighed their crimes and began a covert operation code-named Paperclip to allow them to work in the United States without the public's full knowledge.

• Based on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators
• Draws from German archival documents, including papers made newly available by descendants of the Third Reich
• Incorporates files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and lost dossiers from government archives and Harvard University
• Chronicles the postwar lives of more than a dozen German scientists brought to America
• Published by Back Bay Books in 2015

This new copy delivers a thoroughly researched account of one of the most complex and closely guarded government secrets of the 20th century.