Advanced Technology

One of Operation Paperclip's main conspiracies was the collecting and use of information to make advances in engineering and aerospace. As stated in Hidden Among Us: Analyzing Public Reaction to the Secret Use of Nazi Scientists by the United States Government, an  “...area where the United States made significant gain from German research was in aerospace medicine…” (Kretz, Justin 200). The United States needed this information to help prove that “swept rather than straight wings would improve lift and drag around and above the speed of sound…German wind-tunnel data provided the needed confirmation” (Neufeld, Michael J 200). An example of the use of “This data led to the redesign of important, early USAF jets such as the F-86 fighter and the B-47 nuclear bomber” (200). With advances in air planes the U. S. was able to make more efficient aircraft still used today. This was not the only reason the U. S. wanted “These Germans were to help advance the United States’ military and American science/ technology” (Perry, Holly R 7). According to Overcast, Paperclip, Osoaviakhim: Looting and the Transfer of German Military Technology,“Paperclip was designed first to benefit American military and industrial power, second to deny German technology to other countries–at first, almost everyone; later, the USSR in particular” (Neufeld, Michael J 201). Not only was “The American Public…oblivious to a lot of what went on with Operation Paperclip” (Perry, Holly R. 3), other countries also had no clue. This is because the United States wanted unfettered and unrestricted access to any and all advances in wartime technology from the Nazis.