Support provided by: Gwen tells us more about the development of
technology in Nazi Germany. More from Gwen on Nazi Technology
and US intelligence. A battle to uncover a secret history from
World War II is still being fought - in the U.S. Congress. This
time, the struggle is not with Germany, but our own CIA. At the
very end of the war, U.S. intelligence agencies sought out some
of the best and most notorious Nazi scientists. They were soon
put to work, all in the name of the new Cold War battle against
global Communism. The Russians may have won the race to Berlin,
but the Americans captured the head of the V-2 rocket program,
Wernher von Braun. Braun was sent to NASA, where he was
immediately put to work converting that long range missile
technology into the first manned spacecraft. He wasn't alone.
Under Operation Paper Clip, some 350 German scientists and
former intelligence agents were given visas and well-paying
jobs. Many of those scientists had questionable pasts. Braun
himself had been an active memb