Lichtblau joined The New York Times in September 2002 as a correspondent covering the Justice Department,[2] and published his last story for the paper in April 2017.
[8] In The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men, Lichtblau uncovered the full details of Operation Paperclip, a story that had been carefully guarded by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency for over sixty years.
Unknown to Americans, and fully aware of the monstrous crimes many had committed, the CIA provided a safe haven for thousands of Nazi scientists and spies after World War II.
The V-2 rockets killed thousands of British and Belgian citizens during the War and its production effort ruthlessly exploited concentration camp prisoners for labor.
The CIA helped other Nazis gain access to the US to covertly collect information on Communists as part of an overzealous Cold War policy.
[10] It was subsequently revealed that multiple United States intelligence agencies were conducting an investigation at the time into possible covert aid from the Kremlin to the Trump campaign.