NASA
.......Operation Paperclip was the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) project that sought to bring German scientists to the United States after the end of World War II in 1945. Carried out by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (a subcommittee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States Armed Forces), Operation Paperclip was a success, as the picture above, taken at Fort Bliss in Texas in 1946, attests. The men in this photo, many of whom are smiling, constitute some of the most brilliant scientific minds of the time in the fields of aeronautics, rocketry, medicine, electronics and physics. All of them were recruited by the United States to continue their research in America and many of them went on to become leading figures in NASA and other government research and development institutions.....
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