Operation Paperclip

• Began in 1945.

• Was originally called Operation Overcast but it changed for the paper clips attached to the dossiers of the most “troublesome cases”

• More than 1,600 Germans were secretly recruited to develop armaments “at a feverish and paranoid pace that came to define the Cold War.

• The Germans were valued as vital to American national security.

• Designed the V-2 rockets that shattered London and Antwerp and in the countless deaths of concentration camp inmates who fell victim to medical experiments at Dachau and Ravensbrück.