Operation Paperclip

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception


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. link

How NASA got started: a group of elite NAZI rocket scientists (aerospace engineers) at Fort Bliss, Texas