OPERATION PAPERCLIP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100140078-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 78
• Publication Date: May 17, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/04: CIA-RDP90-01208R000100140078-3
RADIO N REPORTS, N<
4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEW CHASE, MARYLAND, 20815
!FOR
PUBLIC AFFAIRS STAFF
PROGRAM
The Daily Drum
STATION
WHUR Radio'
DATE
May 17, 1982
6:00 PM
CITY
Pacifica Network
Wa if hington, DC
SUBJECT
Operation Paperclip,
GLORIA MINOT: Earlier in the newscast you~hesrd about
an ex'~f.ederal prosecutor who charges that a. State Department spy
agency 'smuggled Nazis and other killers into the U.S. in the
"In the following report, Travis T. Hipp says that action
raises serious questions about the power and the internal work-
TRAVIS T. HIPP:' Operation Paperclip, bent'but' still
Reich spies.
Central` Intelligence Agency-and Pentagon processingj~of Third
well in America under goverment-supplied covers is threatening to'
open an even bigger can of worms concerning the origins' of the
unbroken. The .sudden discovery of Nazi war criminals alive .and
In the cl.osing.months.of the European - segment: of World
rest or his top aides were brought to this country along with
their, files,- melted in with the, surviving native-born A' I
spies from the Office .ofStrategic Services, and ins,talled at..
War II,Hitler's top intelligence chief, one General Galand [?],,
put,his vast I operat [?] in cold,storage, packed his files and
prepared. to make a-deal to'save his skin and his organi?zation.
The Americans negotiated, and eventually Galand and the
By the mid-50s, the German sector had become so powerful
in the agency that most European intelligence policy, was in their
hands, and when some of the old OSS gang tried to ot%ject through
.their old boss, Wild Bill Donovan, they were mostly purged to
OFFICES IN: WASHINGTON D.C. 0 NEW YORK' o LOS ANGELES 0 CHICAGO. ' o . DETROIT
AND OTHER PRINCIPAL CITIES
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/04: CIA-RDP90-01208R000100140078-3
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/04: CIA-RDP90-01208R000100140078-3
retirement, leaving control of America's top spy agency in the
hands of retread Reich spies, many of whom have since turned out
to be double and even triple agents.
Recent rumors of a top level mold in the CIA are said
to be focused on the German connection which, in turn, may
surface in the newly kindled interest of the media in post-war
import of Nazi war criminals.
Watching the haunts of history, for Pacific News in
Kamal, I'm Travis T. Hipp.
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/06/04: CIA-RDP90-01208R000100140078-3