Bush Signs Law on Release of CIA-Nazi Documents

Aries

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Fri Mar-25-05 11:05 AM
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Bush Signs Law on Release of CIA-Nazi Documents

Bush Signs Law on Release of CIA-Nazi Documents

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=3&u=/nm/20050325/pl_nm/bush_cia_dc

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) signed legislation into law on Friday extending by two years the life of a government panel charged with declassifying CIA (news - web sites) documents that detail the spy agency's ties to former Nazis and war criminals.

The legislation, which won final congressional approval earlier this month, clears the way for the release of thousands of documents on former Nazis, including some who assisted in the CIA's Cold War espionage against the former Soviet Union.

The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group was established by the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act of 1998 and had been set to disband by the end of this month.

The bill approved by Congress would extend the group's life through March 2007.

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Wickerman

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Fri Mar-25-05 11:06 AM
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1. something Prescott still lingering out there? eom

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ixion

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Fri Mar-25-05 11:10 AM
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2. 2 years, and how many millions for this group, and yet the WTC commission

got what? :grr:

But I guess that's pretty much S.O.P. these days. :-(

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NNN0LHI

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Fri Mar-25-05 03:02 PM
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3. CIA-Nazi documents to be released

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5630204

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President George W. Bush has signed legislation into law extending by two years the life of a government panel charged with declassifying CIA documents that detail the spy agency's ties to former Nazis and war criminals.

The legislation, which won final congressional approval earlier this month, clears the way for the release of thousands of documents on former Nazis, including some who assisted in the CIA's Cold War espionage against the former Soviet Union.

The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group was established by the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act of 1998 and had been set to disband by the end of this
month.

The bill approved by Congress and signed by Bush on Friday would extend the group's life through March
2007.

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truthisfreedom

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Fri Mar-25-05 03:04 PM
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4. why do i get the feeling this is just a method for some bush mole to

remove any trace of prescott bush's connections?

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Barrett808

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Fri Mar-25-05 03:36 PM
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5. Paperclip: I'm interested in details on Reinhard Gehlen and Kurt Blome

Operation Paperclip
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/operationpaperclip.htm

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Aries

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Fri Mar-25-05 03:45 PM
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6. More on Gehlen

http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0508-05.htm

...Based near Munich, Gehlen proceeded to enlist thousands of Gestapo, Wehrmacht, and SS veterans. Even the vilest of the vile – the senior bureaucrats who ran the central administrative apparatus of the Holocaust – were welcome in the "Gehlen Org," as it was called, including Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann's chief deputy. SS major Emil Augsburg and gestapo captain Klaus Barbie, otherwise known as the "Butcher of Lyon," were among those who did double duty for Gehlen and U.S. intelligence. "It seems that in the Gehlen headquarters one SS man paved the way for the next and Himmler's elite were having happy reunion ceremonies," the Frankfurter Rundschau reported in the early 1950s.

Bolted lock, stock, and barrel into the CIA, Gehlen's Nazi-infested spy apparatus functioned as America's secret eyes and ears in central Europe. The Org would go on to play a major role within NATO, supplying two-thirds of raw intelligence on the Warsaw Pact countries. Under CIA auspices, and later as head of the West German secret service until he retired in 1968, Gehlen exerted considerable influence on U.S. policy toward the Soviet bloc. When U.S. spy chiefs desired an off-the-shelf style of nation tampering, they turned to the readily available Org, which served as a subcontracting syndicate for a series of ill-fated guerrilla air drops behind the Iron Curtain and other harebrained CIA rollback schemes...

...Gehlen's disinformation strategy was based on a simple premise: the colder the Cold War got, the more political space for Hitler's heirs to maneuver. The Org could only flourish under Cold War conditions; as an institution it was therefore committed to perpetuating the Soviet-American conflict.

"The agency loved Gehlen because he fed us what we wanted to hear. We used his stuff constantly, and we fed it to everyone else – the Pentagon, the White House, the newspapers. They loved it, too. But it was hyped-up Russian bogeyman junk, and it did a lot of damage to this country," a retired CIA official told author Christopher Simpson, who also serves on the IGW review panel and was author of Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War....

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Robeson

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Fri Mar-25-05 03:51 PM
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7. Gehlen was a piece of work.....

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