Organizations

Operation Paperclip

1945–1959

Secret U.S. program (1945–59) that recruited German scientists and engineers after WWII — including Wernher von Braun and much of his V-2 team — sanitizing Nazi-era records to enable their work for the U.S. military and, later, NASA.

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confirmedWernher von Braun

brought to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip; Nazi-era record sanitized

Source: PBS American Experience; National Archives Paperclip records

confirmedNASA

Paperclip's rocketry team (von Braun et al.) became the core of NASA's early program

Source: NASA history

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