At the close of WWII, Russia and the USA were on a looting frenzy through the defeated Nazis' former territories. No, it wasn't gold, jewelry or expensive art of the Masters. It was for the Reich's top scientists. So advanced was Nazi R&D before and during the war, Hitler came close; very close to winning and a great percentage of Germany's success and near victory was owed to those scientists who worked beneath the Swastika.
The American effort to bring these Nazi scientists to America for the purpose of utilizing their expertise in science and technology was known as "Operation Paperclip."
After WWII ended in 1945, victorious Russian and American intelligence teams began a treasure hunt throughout occupied Germany for military and scientific booty. They were looking for things like new rocket and aircraft designs, medicines, and electronics. But they were also hunting down the most precious "spoils" of all: the scientists whose work had nearly won the war for Germany. The engineers and intelligence officers of the Nazi War Machine.
The U.S. Military
rounded up Nazi scientists and brought them to America. It had originally intended merely to debrief them and send them back to Germany. But when it realized the extent of the scientists knowledge and expertise, the War Department decided it would be a waste to send the scientists home. Following the discovery of flying discs (
foo fighters), particle/laser beam weaponry in German military bases, the War Department decided that NASA and the CIA must control this technology, and the Nazi engineers that had worked on this technology.
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