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I didn’t know about Operation Paperclip when I lived in Germany….
But here is what I did when I put two and two together.
I was in my early twenties when I lived in Germany for one year with my ex-husband, who was in the US Army.
He didn’t have enough rank to qualify for Army housing, so we lived on the economy or alongside the German people.
I did not, and do not speak German. However, the small-town people made every effort to speak English because of the large number of military families in the area.
I realized the German people might be hiding something when they refused to talk about World War II. Here I was, a young woman who found it exciting to be living in a place that I had learned so much about in high school. World War II was a big part of our history class; the tests and final exams revealed this fact.
I wanted to know more, one because of my history lessons in high school and two because my father was a World War II veteran.
But the Germans were not talking.
It was not until I left Germany and began my own research that the subject became even more important to me.
First of all, Operation Paperclip is real and as close to CIA events as the general public will ever get. Here’s the educational documentation on…
