Secret plan behind bringing Nazi scientists to US revealed

A new book is has laid bare some of the facets of the controversial plan to bring Nazi scientists to US.

'Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program to Bring Nazi Scientists to America' author Annie Jacobsen used newly released documents, court transcripts, and family-held archives to give the fullest accounting yet of the plan - one shared by the British, the French, and the Russians, all of whom enlisted and embraced top Nazis, the New York Post reported.

The Department of Defense had created a top-secret, elite task force called the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency, or JOIA. They were subordinate to the Joint Intelligence Committee, which briefed the Joint Chiefs of Staff on national security threats.

Jacobsen said that within one year of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the JIC warned the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the US needed to prepare for 'total war' with the Soviets- and to include atomic, chemical, and biological warfare - and that they even set an estimated start date of 1952.

Unofficial US policy held that it was imperative to secretly bring in those Nazis who could accelerate USA's scientific, technological and economic advancement.

The Allies held elite Nazis in two luxurious locales: the Palace Hotel in Luxembourg, renamed "Ashcan," and Crane Mountain Castle in Hesse, Germany, renamed "Dustbin."

These were the places where the most wicked Nazis lounged in well-appointed rooms, strolled through apple orchards, played chess, smoked and drank, and gave each other lectures in grand halls.