Operation Paperclip

secret program of the US to bring German scientists, including former Nazis, into the US to work for the US government
Event covert_operation Q444698
Operation Paperclip
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Operation Paperclip

Summary

Operation Paperclip is a covert operation[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of covert_operation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,002 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Operation Paperclip's image is recorded as Project Paperclip Team at Fort Bliss.jpg[3].
  • Operation Paperclip's instance of is recorded as covert operation[4].
  • Operation Paperclip's operator is recorded as Counterintelligence Corps[5].
  • Operation Paperclip's part of is recorded as aftermath of World War II[6].
  • Operation Paperclip's Commons category is recorded as Operation Paperclip[7].
  • Operation Paperclip's start time is recorded as +1945-07-20T00:00:00Z[8].
  • Operation Paperclip's start time is recorded as +1945-00-00T00:00:00Z[9].
  • Operation Paperclip's end time is recorded as +1959-00-00T00:00:00Z[10].
  • Operation Paperclip's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01lt8q[11].
  • Operation Paperclip's organizer is recorded as Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency[12].
  • Operation Paperclip's organizer is recorded as Counterintelligence Corps[13].
  • Operation Paperclip's participant is recorded as scientist[14].
  • Operation Paperclip's participant is recorded as Otto Ambros[15].
  • Operation Paperclip's participant is recorded as Kurt Blome[16].
  • Operation Paperclip's participant is recorded as Walter Dornberger[17].
  • Operation Paperclip's participant is recorded as Siegfried Knemeyer[18].
  • Operation Paperclip's participant is recorded as Walter Schreiber[19].
  • Operation Paperclip's participant is recorded as Wernher von Braun[20].
  • Operation Paperclip's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Operation Paperclip[21].
  • Operation Paperclip's depicted by is recorded as Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program to Bring Nazi Scientists to America[22].
  • Operation Paperclip's depicted by is recorded as ‘The Nazis Next Door,’ by Eric Lichtblau[23].
  • Operation Paperclip's has characteristic is recorded as controversy[24].
  • Operation Paperclip's Quora topic ID is recorded as Operation-Paperclip[25].
  • Operation Paperclip's has goal is recorded as capture[26].
  • Operation Paperclip's has goal is recorded as recruitment[27].

Why It Matters

Operation Paperclip ranks in the top 3% of covert_operation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,002 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . cia.gov. cia.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . web.archive.org. web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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