Fact check
Is it true: Operation Paperclip?
Confirmed98% confidence
Yes — this is confirmed.
Proven by declassified JIOA documents, OSI deportation cases, and decades of historical scholarship. The core facts — that the US recruited Nazi war criminals while publicly prosecuting Nazis at Nuremberg — are beyond dispute.
The claim
US program (1945-1959) that secretly recruited over 1,600 former Nazi scientists, engineers, and technicians — including many with documented war crimes — and brought them to America for military and
Key evidence
JIOA declassified memos
Cold War necessity claim
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