From the shores of the Potomac to the ruins of the Reich, the U.S. Army built a pipeline for the Third Reich’s finest minds—keeping the terms of their salvation blacked out for decades.
Prisoners of war and domestic laborers were processed by a machinery of interrogation that the US National Archives has left partially indexed and heavily gated.
Kept secret for decades, the agency's guides moved from studying Soviet brainwashing to teaching Latin American officers how to induce extreme dependency in prisoners.
Captured soldiers of the Third Reich surrendered secrets on concentration camps and signal intelligence to a mobile unit whose files now sit in the National Archives.
An unnamed Soviet defector faced "special interrogation techniques" during a November weekend in a guarded safehouse, while the project name and outcome remain redacted.