Operation Paperclip

Project Paperclip was a postwar and Cold War operation carried out by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency

Paperclip had two aims: to exploit German scientists for American research, and to deny these intellectual resources to the Soviet Union.

At least 1,600 scientists and their dependents were recruited and brought to the United States by Paperclip and its successor projects through the early 1970s.

The staff believes this trail should be followed with more research before conclusions can be drawn about the Paperclip scientists and human radiation experiments.

Security investigations conducted by the military have disclosed the fact that the majority of German scientists were members of either the Nazi Party or one or more of its affiliates.

To continue to treat Nazi affiliations as significant considerations has been aptly phrased as 'beating a dead Nazi horse.'

These investigations disclose further that with a very few exceptions, such membership was due to exigencies which influenced the lives of every citizen of Germany at that time.

The documentary record indicates, however, that many claimed inactive status or membership that was a formality

The Air Force's School of Aviation Medicine (SAM) at Brooks Air Force Base in Texas conducted dozens of human radiation experiments during the Cold War

The Committee has no documents at this time indicating that Dr. Gerstner engaged in human experimentation in Germany.

He denied involvement with Nazi experiments

Perhaps the most prominent of the Paperclip physicians was Hubertus Strughold

Von Braun came to the United States in September 1945 under contract with the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps as part of Operation Paperclip.