OPERATION PAPERCLIP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000100200004-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2007
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: May 17, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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DATE
The Daily Drum
May 17, 1982
6:00 PM
STATION
CITY
WHUR Radio
Pacifica Network
Washington, DC
SUBJECT
Operation Paperclip
GLORIA MINOT: Earlier in the newscast you heard about
an ex-federal prosecutor who charges that a State Department spy
agency smuggled Nazis and other killers into the U.S. in the
1950s to spy on the Soviets.
In the following report, Travis T. Hipp says that action
raises serious questions about the power and the internal work-
ings of the CIA.
TRAVIS T. HIPP: Operation Paperclip, bent but still
unbroken. The sudden discovery of Nazi war criminals alive and
well in America under goverment-supplied covers is threatening to
open an even bigger can of worms concerning the origins of the
Central Intelligence Agency and Pentagon processing of Third
Reich spies.
In the closing months of the European segment of World
War II, Hitler's top intelligence chief, one General Galand [?],
put his vast I operat [?] in cold storage, packed his files and
prepared to make a deal to save his skin and his organization.
The Americans negotiated, and eventually Galand and the
rest of his top aides were brought to this country along with
their files, melted in with the surviving native-born American
spies from the Office of Strategic Services, and installed at
Langley, Virginia as the newly formed CIA. The name of the
program was Operation Paperclip.
By the mid-50s, the German sector had become so powerful
in the agency that most European intelligence policy was in their
hands, and when some of the old OSS gang tried to object through
their old boss, Wild Bill Donovan, they were mostly purged to
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retirement, leaving control of America's top spy agency in the
hands of retread Reich spies, many of whom have since turned out
to be double and even triple agents.
Recent rumors of a top level mold in the CIA are said
to be focused on the German connection which, in turn, may
surface in the newly kindled interest of the media in post-war
import of Nazi war criminals.
Watching the haunts of history, for Pacific News in
Kamal, I'm Travis T. Hipp.
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