Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

by Annie Jacobsen

But they were memos that were never meant to be found by American scientists. The plan was for the Third Reich to rule for a thousand years.

There was also a large collection of books, “several boxes of periodicals all dealing with infectious diseases.” The ones that really caught the scientists’ attention were “Russian contributions on plague.”

Particularly fascinating to the public was that some of the airplanes still had swastikas painted on their tails.