historical record
"More than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians — some former Nazis — were secretly brought to the United States for government employment after WWII."
Source
Operation Paperclip — Declassified Records
U.S. National Archives records on Operation Paperclip; documented in scholarship (e.g., Annie Jacobsen, 'Operation Paperclip', 2014)
Author
U.S. Government (NARA records)
Date
1945–1959 (declassified later)
Credibility & evidentiary value

DOCUMENTED: a real, now-declassified U.S. program that recruited German (including ex-Nazi) scientists — among them Wernher von Braun — into the U.S. space and defense programs, with some war records sanitized. Established history.

Citation · Chicago

U.S. National Archives, Operation Paperclip records; Annie Jacobsen, Operation Paperclip (New York: Little, Brown, 2014).

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