9. The U.S. Government employed Nazi scientists after World War II.
Around 1,600 scientists, engineers, and technicians from Germany were selected to work in the U.S. back in 1945 following Germany’s defeat in WWII. The program called Operation Paperclip, was exposed in media outlets, including the New York Times the following year.
Full public exposure would only come when President Clinton signed the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act in 1998, which pushed through the declassification of American intelligence records, including the F.B.I., Army intelligence and C.I.A. files of German agents, scientists and war criminals.
Journalist Annie Jacobsen would use this information to write her New York Times bestseller “Operation Paperclip” and expose the full extent of the U.S. governments questionable program.
Some of these Nazi scientists were also involved in Project MKUltra. Wernher von Braun was one of the well known former Nazi participants in this program and he was sent to work as director of the Development Operations Division of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. He was involved in the moon landing and developed the Jupiter-C rocket used to launch America’s first satellite.
