![]() ![]() Documents were forged or altered, wartime activities were covered up, and, in some cases, entirely new identities were created, all in the service of our national interest. As Jacobsen, an investigative journalist, illustrates, the JIOA adroitly sidestepped Truman’s directive through an intense program of fraud and deception. Truman had stipulated that members of the Nazi Party were not to be included. and to work for various government-affiliated programs. So, in August 1945, President Truman authorized the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), a division of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), to aggressively “recruit” German scientists to come to the U.S. had become acutely aware of the value of German scientists responsible for great advances in rocketry and biological research under the Nazis. ![]() ![]() At the same time, military, scientific, and political leaders in the U.S. *Starred Review* By the end of 1945, the alliance of the Western powers with the Soviet Union had frayed, and the basic outlines of what would become the Cold War had taken shape. ![]()
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