Late Night Live - Separate Stories Podcast

As the war drew to a close in Europe, American scientific intelligence officers were looking for weapons - rockets, biological and chemical weapons that they would take back to America. But they were also looking for the scientists and engineers that had overseen their design and construction, so they could offer them a new life in America where they would share their knowledge and secrets in return for wiping their record of atrocities clean. It was called Operation Paperclip. Author Kelly Rimmer has fictionalised the account of one German scientist and his family in a new book.