Operation Paperclip

The Dark Truth Behind US Science

In "Operation paperclip", founded by the JIOA "Joint Intelligence Objective Agency" in 1945, the American military and intelligence services would smuggle in about 1600 Nazi chemists, biologists, and engineers into the country's chemical and biological laboratory. Many of these were high up in the Nazi Party and strongly shared its philosophy and were wanted for war crimes and human rights violations. Fearing communism and the threat from the Soviet Union, the first civilian director of the CIA, Allen Dulles, saw it necessary for the United States to make strategic use of former Nazi and Japanese scientists. Despite the fact that these had committed serious crimes against human rights, Dulles believed that the American population no longer had the Nazis to fear, but now the great threat came from the Soviet Union. In 1945, after the Soviet Union's occupation of East Germany, the Soviet version of Operation Paperclip took shape, Operation Osoaviakhim, when Soviet troops demolished an entire gas production lab from IG Farben and in turn captured and exploited Nazi chemists. Which in turn led to the Soviet Union's blockade of Berlin in 1948, their first detonation of the atomic bomb in 1949, and the Korean War in 1950 led to drastic actions and the recruitment of horrific people by US intelligence for Operation Paperclip. The actions taken by the American military and intelligence services after World War II would lead to these people who had willingly tortured, murdered and mass-murdered mainly Jews during the Second World War to escape justice and the Nuremberg trials by being given immunity and new identities to work in American "top-secret" government operations.
Among these Nazis was Kurt Blome, who had worked directly under Hermann Göring and on the Third Reich's bioweapons program. A staunch believer in the Nazi mindset, Blome was part of Adolf Hitler's inner circle and had many meetings often with Hitler, Göring and Himmler. Blome carried out mass murder, such as ordering the Third Reich governor of Poland to kill 35,000 Poles diagnosed with turbeculosis, and he had a great fascination with constructing bioweapons in the hope of killing only "certain types of people". Blome was a very skilled biologist and his knowledge was used in the Third Reich by producing deadly pathogens such as cholera, parrot disease and the plague. These were areas the CIA was particularly interested in and it "saved" Dr. kurt Blome from the Nuremberg trials.
By 1952, the CIA had managed to recruit about 600 Nazi researchers and many of them were SS officers who were close to Hitler's inner circle and had committed terrible war crimes. Additional CIA-recruited jewels for "Operation Paperclip" were the Third Reich's director of research, Dr. Walter Schreiber. Schreiber reported directly to Hermann Göring and had responsibilities such as vaccines, antidotes and serums for biological weapons. According to Schreiber himself, his areas of expertise were winter warfare, desert warfare, vaccines and bioweapons. During World War II, Schreiber oversaw both torture expirations on infected men in concentration camps such as Buchenwald and Natzweiler as well as operations performed on conscious patients including “kicking and screaming young Polish girls who were forcibly operated on and held down by SS soldiers. Even his employees performed lethal experiments such as dissecting patients alive. Schreiber's job in the Paperclip mission was to monitor the health and well-being of captured Soviet spies as they were simultaneously tortured and brainwashed. These experiments were conducted at the CIA's first foreign "black site", Camp King, the former torture prison dedicated to Nazis.
Wehrmacht Generalarzt, the surgeon general, Walter Schreiber is not to be confused with a Paperclip employee with a similar name. Former brigade leader and SS officer Walter Schieber, who wore the golden badge, the swastika, and was another member of Hitler's inner circle, also avoided the hand of justice by being employed in Operation Paperclip. Scheiber was known for his sadistic experiments on slave workers where in one of these experiments he starved 116 people to death. Scheiber is estimated to be responsible for the deaths of thousands of people by testing chemical weapons under the "IG Farben" (Intressen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustri Aktiengesselschaft) production facilities. During World War II, this Nazi "Bonzen" (large cutter) also worked overseeing and constructing weapons factories in concentration camps. As an employee of IG Farben, Scheiber worked to produce and oversee the manufacture of nerve gas for the Third Reich and it was the sharing of this information with Fort Detrick officials that caused him to escape justice in the Nurmeberg trials. With access to this information, the US Department of Defense built production facilities at Muscle Shoals and Rocky Mountain Arsenal and began manufacturing thousands of tons of deadly effluvium.
The CIA also managed to release Dr. Otto Ambrose. This man was Hitler's favorite chemist and served as general manager of the Buna factory at Auschwitz, where "Farben" kept regular rotations of thousands of slaves, at least 25,000 of whom Dr. Ambros worked to death. In the outcome of the Nuremberg trials, Ambros was sentenced to eight years in prison due to his involvement in slavery and mass murder during the Holocaust. However, the fact that even during this time Ambros was working to produce sarin gas for the Nazis, attracted the interest of the Operation Paperclip administrators. Ambros served only two and a half years of his eight-year sentence and was instead moved to a comfortable life in America to work for American arms and chemical companies with close ties to the CIA and the Pentagon.
In 1963, Operation Paperclip came to an end and the Pentagon decided to shut down JIOA after the FBI found out that the organization's director general, named William H Whalen, was acting as a spy for the Soviet Union. That in turn led to the Pentagon trying to prosecute Whalen in secret while changing the face of Operation Paperclip. In the "reorganization", the mission would instead act as a cornerstone for the very latest research and would first be named ARPA, Advanced Research Projects Agency. The organization still exists today and now goes by the name DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. As we shall see, the organization never changed its goal. Despite the gains of the Cold War, DARPA continued to influence and invest in the production of bio-weapons.