Entity / Government Agency

Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency

A Joint Chiefs of Staff body that coordinated foreign-scientist programs and personnel dossiers after World War II.

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Investigation

Operation Paperclip

After World War II, the United States recruited selected German specialists. The technical story is inseparable from screening records, Nazi affiliations, and the Cold War rationale.

Relationship trail

Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency administered Operation Paperclip

Source metadata

Records of the Secretary of Defense (RG 330)U.S. National Archives · Government history