Operation Paperclip, the secret intelligence program to bring Nazi scientists to America, Annie Jacobsen
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Operation Paperclip, the secret intelligence program to bring Nazi scientists to America, Annie Jacobsen
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Operation Paperclip
Nature of contents
bibliographydictionaries
Oclc number
867715781
Responsibility statement
Annie Jacobsen
Sub title
the secret intelligence program to bring Nazi scientists to America
Summary
Details how the U.S. government embarked on a covert operation to recruit and employ Nazi scientists in the years following World War II in an effort to prevent their knowledge and expertise from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union
Table Of Contents
The war and the weapons -- Destruction -- The hunters and the hunted -- Liberation -- The captured and their interrogators -- Harnessing the chariot of destruction -- Hitler's doctors -- Black, white and gray -- Hitler's chemists -- Hired or hanged -- The ticking clock -- Total war of apocalyptic proportions -- Science at any price -- Strange judgment -- Chemical menace -- Headless monster -- Hall of mirrors -- Downfall -- Truth serum -- In the dark shadows -- Limelight -- Legacy -- What lasts?
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secret intelligence program to bring Nazi scientists to America
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- Scientists + Recruiting -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Scientists + Recruiting
- German Americans
- World War, 1939-1945 + Technology
- World War (1939-1945)
- Technology
- Nazis + History -- 20th century
- War criminals
- Physicians + Recruiting
- History
- Nazis
- Intelligence service
- Scientists + Recruiting -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Brain drain
- Electronic books
- German Americans + History -- 20th century
- Physicians + Recruiting -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Military research + History -- 20th century
- Brain drain -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- War criminals -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- United States
- Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Germany
- Military research
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- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject24
- Scientists + Recruiting -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Scientists + Recruiting
- German Americans
- World War, 1939-1945 + Technology
- World War (1939-1945)
- Technology
- Nazis + History -- 20th century
- War criminals
- Physicians + Recruiting
- History
- Nazis
- Intelligence service
- Scientists + Recruiting -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Brain drain
- Electronic books
- German Americans + History -- 20th century
- Physicians + Recruiting -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- Military research + History -- 20th century
- Brain drain -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- War criminals -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
- United States
- Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Germany
- Military research
- Content1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1