How the USA used Nazi Psychiatrists after WWII

Operation Paperclip was the codename under which the US intelligence and military services extricated scientists from Germany, during and after the final stages of World War II. The project was originally called Operation Overcast, and is sometimes also known as Project Paperclip… The majority of the scientists, numbering almost 500, were deployed at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, Fort Bliss, Texas and Huntsville, Alabama to work on guided missile and ballistic missile technology. This in turn led to the foundation of NASA and the US ICBM program.

Much of the information surrounding Operation Paperclip is still classified.

Not all of the scientists were involved in hard science. Some were involved in the Nazi equivalent of Psychological Warfare, and supply useful assistance to the CIA in the subject of Brainwashing during the Cold War, and later. It is quite believable that these ex-Nazi psychiatrists were a major factor contributing to the rise and expansion of human rights abuse routinely seen modern psychiatry since WWII.

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