As one of his final guilt-cleansing actions, Otto Skorzeny chose to disclose his role in forming the CIA with other Nazis exported to the US through Operation Paperclip. Otto alleged that he worked extensively with Reinhard Gehlen and George H. Scherf, Jr. in these efforts. After the May 10, 1945 German ‘surrender’, Skorzeny was imprisoned at a Darmstadt POW camp (above). He ‘escaped’ on July 27, 1948 – but was actually released as planned– to found first the Office of Strategic Services and later the CIA with the vast majority of Nazi scientists and engineers directly from Germany.