German Scientists, United States Denazification Policy, and the ‘PaperclipConspiracy’
1990; Routledge; Volume: 12; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/07075332.1990.9640553
ISSN1949-6540
Autores Tópico(s)German History and Society
Resumosince the creation of the justice department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI) in 1979, and particularly after the f case of Arthur Rudolph broke into the news in October 1984, a good deal of attention has been given to Project Paperclip, the US programme to bring German scientists and technicians to the United States after the Second World War. John Loftus, citing an OSI Paperclip file, wrote in 1982 that 'the Pentagon had apparently decided, without informing the President, that the interests of national security in using these scientists far outweighed any notion of prosecuting them for war crimes5.1 Linda Hunt, after using records declassified under the Freedom of Information Act, described the US cover-up of Nazi scientists and wrote in 1985 that 'the War Department was intent on using Nazi specialists and was not about to let other government agencies or even a policy signed by President Truman get in its way'.2 Finally, Tom Bower wrote in 1987 that 'suspecting and alleging conspiracies are considerably easier than conclusively proving their existence', but he titled his book which is based on American and British records and on inter-
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