Our Germans : Project Paperclip and the national security state /

Our Germans : Project Paperclip and the national security state / Brian Crim.

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"Our Germans is a highly engaging history of one of the United States' most controversial intelligence operations during the early Cold War. Project Paperclip brought fifteen hundred German scientists and their dependents to the United States in the first decade after World War II. More th...

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Main Author: Crim, Brian E. (Author)
Other title:Project Paperclip and the national security state.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
World War (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 > Technology.
Brain drain > Germany > History > 20th century.
Scientists > Recruiting > Germany > History > 20th century.
Scientists > Recruiting > United States > History > 20th century.
Nazis > History > 20th century.
War criminals > Germany > History > 20th century.
Intelligence service > United States > History > 20th century.
Military research > History > 20th century.
German Americans > History > 20th century.
Brain drain.
German Americans.
Intelligence service.
Military research.
Nazis.
Scientists > Recruiting.
Technology.
War criminals.
Germany.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Aristocracy of evil : the paperclippers and Nazi science
  • Implements of progress : the military's case for Paperclip
  • Conscientious objectors : the State Department and opposition to Project Paperclip
  • Germans : German scientists, the Soviet Union, and the U.S. intelligence community
  • Paperclip vindicated : German scientists and the maturation of the national security state
  • Epilogue.

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