PAPERS FIXED FOR NAZIS, REPORT SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100120031-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: March 12, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Papers
fors Nazis, :
reportsay~;
CHICAGO , American intelli-
f a s D u ht Nazi scien-
ti to the' ited States over. the
objectionst of the State Department
b altering dossiers accordin to de-
classified documents pubUshe n a
magazine . yester ay
Projects code named Overcast and
Project `Paperclip enabled Wernher
von Braun, who later headed:the.
American space program, and' more
than 700'.other rocket experti-and
scientists' to enter the country- ';'be-,
1945 and 1955, according to the'.
April : issue' of, the Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists.`
. l~tt-tir.
The article..rnmbased onrecently=de-
classified'goveent documents ob;
tained under the Freedom of Infor-
mation Act, said- American
authorities knew that some of the
scientists had been involved in Nazi
atrocities:
President Harry S Truman bad or-
dered that active Nazi supporters or
party members be barred from pro-
grams to recruit Gerrman scientists.
But, according to the article, officials
of the Joint Intelligence Objectives
A enc o tile Joint io s o to
change dossiers of people t ey
wanted to recruit to circumvent pos~
Bible objections.
The program, which hired 765 sci-
entists and other specialists from
1945 and 1955, was designed to take
advantage of German and Austrian
expertise and to prevent the remili-
tarization of Germany..,
'The article did not say how many
Nazis entered the United States using
altered records.
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
1z March 1985
Von Braun; developer. of the:. V-2
.rocket and a major =in the NaziSS,
was considered. ?a potential security
threat but American military offi-
cials had that status revised, accord.
ing to documents cited in the article.
He died in 1977. . . . ,
Some of the declassified -. docu-
ments showed that when the mili-
tary governor's office in Germany
rated a desired. scientist unfavor-
ably., military officials were instruct-
ed not to pass those reports' on. in-
stead, the European Command was
asked to revise the status of these
scientists to make immigration possi-
ble.
Among those who entered -.the
United States because of a' changed
dossier, said the report,. was Arthur
Rudolph, who became a top NASA
manager. But he returned to West
Germany last year and surrendered
his citizenship rather than contest
charges that he oversaw a Nazi slave
labor camp were many workers died.
The magazine is published in Chi-
cago by. the Educational Foundation
of Nuclear Science.
.STAT
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