TY - BOOK AU - Jacobsen,Annie TI - Operation Paperclip: the secret intelligence program that brought Nazi scientists to America SN - 031622104X (hardcover) AV - D810.S2 J33 2014 U1 - 940.54/867308850943 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Little, Brown and Company KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Technology KW - Brain drain KW - Germany KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Scientists KW - Recruiting KW - United States KW - Physicians KW - Nazis KW - War criminals KW - Intelligence service KW - Military research KW - German Americans N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-560) and index; The war and the weapons -- Destruction -- The hunters and the hunted -- Liberation -- The captured and their interrogators -- Harnessing the chariot of destruction -- Hitler's doctors -- Black, white and gray -- Hitler's chemists -- Hired or hanged -- The ticking clock -- Total war of apocalyptic proportions -- Science at any price -- Strange judgment -- Chemical menace -- Headless monster -- Hall of mirrors -- Downfall -- Truth serum -- In the dark shadows -- Limelight -- Legacy -- What lasts? N2 - Details how the U.S. government embarked on a covert operation to recruit and employ Nazi scientists in the years following World War II in an effort to prevent their knowledge and expertise from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union ER -