Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 20. Juni 1945 / Time Line June 20, 1945
Version 3.006/20/1945
Den amerikanske
udenrigsminister, Cordel Hull, godkender OSS Operation Paperclip,
rehabiliseringen af nazistiske videnskabsmænd.
06/20/1945
The U.S. Secretary of State Cordel Hull approves the OSS Operation
Paperclip, the rehabilitation of Nazi scientists.
'Of particular interest were scientists specialising in
aerodynamics and rocketry (such as those involved in the V-1 and
V-2 projects), chemical weapons, chemical reaction technology and
medicine. These scientists and their families were secretly brought
to the United States, without State Department review and approval;
their service for Hitler's Third Reich, NSDAP and SS memberships as
well as the classification of many as war criminals or security
threats also disqualified them from officially obtaining visas. An
aim of the operation was capturing equipment before the Soviets
came in. The US Army destroyed some of the German equipment to
prevent it from being captured by the advancing Soviet Army.
The majority of the scientists, numbering almost 500, were deployed
at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, Fort Bliss, Texas and
Huntsville, Alabama to work on guided missile and ballistic missile
technology. This in turn led to the foundation of NASA and the US
ICBM program.
Much of the information surrounding Operation Paperclip is still
classified.
Separate from Paperclip was an even-more-secret effort to capture
German nuclear secrets, equipment and personnel (Operation Alsos).
Another American project (TICOM) gathered German experts in
cryptography.'
- http://www.operationpaperclip.info/ Literature: National
Archives and Records Administration: 'List Of Terms, Code Names,
Operations, and Other Search Terminology To Assist Review and
Identification Activities Required by the Act This list is supplied
by the Nazi War Criminal Records Interagency Working Group (IWG).
It is to be used by agencies in the course of activities undertaken
to meet he requirements of the Act and E. O. 13110. It is intended
to assist agencies in identifying records that may be relevant to
the Act. Periodically, the IWG will revise and update the list.
Included are names of organizations, places, things, programs,
operations and other terms relating to war criminals, criminality,
and assets looted, taken, and found. ' -
http://www.archives.gov/iwg/finding-aids/list-of-terms-code.html
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