NAZI RECORDS SAID ALTERED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100120032-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: March 12, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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.'1ASR1NGTON POST
12 March 1985
Nazi Records.
Said Altered
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Magazine. Says U.S
Wanted -Scientists ......
Associated Press
CHICAGO, March 11-U.S. o>~,
ficials doctored reports about Gets
man scientists and ignored inform~'?+
tion about their Nazi activities t4
get them into the United States
after World War 11, according to- a---
magazine article based on declas-
sified documents.
The actions conflicted with an
order signed by President Harry S
Truman that said no "active sup-
porter of Nazism or militarism"
could be employed in the Project
Paperclip program, according to the
article in the April issue of the Bul-
letin of Atomic Scientists.
The program, which hired 765
scientists and other specialists from
1945 to 1955, was designed to take
advantage of German and Austrian
expertise and prevent the remili-
tarization of Germany. The article
did not say how many Nazis entered
the - United ...States using... altered..
records.
The magazine said an 18-month
investigation, based 'on formerly
classified documents obtained under
,the. Freedom of Information Act,
showed that some of those,hired in
the program later were charged.
with war crimes at Nuremberg.
The Army has not seen the re-
port and would not comment, a
spokesman in Washington said.
Project policy required the War
Department orerunner o the _5e_-
tense Department, to conduct back-
ground investigations of the special-
ists' wartime activities, he article
said. Results were given to the Joint
Intelligence Objectives Agency,
which operated under the Joint
Chiefs of Staff.
"Some reports disclosed that spe-
cialists may have participated in
experiments on humans, brutalized
slave labor,. and committed other
crimes," the article said.'
The intelligence agency at times
requested, changes in incriminating
records of those they wanted to
recruit, the article said. In other
cases, it said, the intelligence ages;
cy gave the State' Department
"clean" forms for specialists with
extremely damaging information in
their backgrounds.
STAT
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