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...Schreiber, it developed, had been brought to the U.S. in a Defense Department scoop-up of German technical men known as "Operation Paperclip." His job: consultant to the Air Force in a division with the grandiloquent title "Global Preventive Medicine." He was living comfortably in San Antonio with his wife and his son Paul, 17, a student at Alamo Heights High School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Echoes from Nürnberg | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...Back to Paperclip. Confronted with this background, and asked what Consultant Schreiber was doing to advance Global Preventive Medicine, the Air Force stammered out some seemingly contradictory statements: 1) he was working merely on unclassified matters, 2) the project was classified confidential and could not be discussed. The Air Force said it knew nothing of these echoes of Nürnberg when it engaged Schreiber, and had no good way of sifting them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Echoes from Nürnberg | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

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