U.S. Recruiting Hussein's Spies

U.S. Recruiting Hussein's Spies
Occupation Forces Hope Covert Campaign Will Help Identify Resistance

U.S.-led occupation authorities have begun a covert campaign to recruit and train agents with the once-dreaded Iraqi intelligence service to help identify resistance to American forces here after months of increasingly sophisticated attacks and bombings, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37331-2003Aug23.html

Love this comment from BillMon at Whiskey Bar:
If the Bushies thought they needed a Baathist police state to keep Iraq free of Al Qaeda, they probably would have done better by leaving the original one in place. It certainly would have been a hell of a lot cheaper -- and probably more efficient, to boot.

http://billmon.org/archives/000452.html

Absolutely no way this could backfire, or that those former Hussein operatives would e-e-e-ever feed us disinformation or double-cross their American handlers!

This idea ranks right up there with allowing our proxies to torture captured folks. The corrupt Bush administration reminds me of a particularly slow child given a choice of two hands, one of which is empty and the other has a piece of candy. The kindly grandfather, shakes the hand with the candy in it as an indicator, but the child continues to pick the other hand.

Just like when Poppy was a Pup and that nice Mr. Dulles invited Naz—er, German General Reinhard Gehlen to come over to the US with his organization and help us fight the commies, ja!

CIA's Worst-Kept Secret

By Martin A. Lee
May 16, 2001

ib]"Honest and idealist ... enjoys good food and wine ... unprejudiced mind..."

That's how a 1952 Central Intelligence Agency assessment described Nazi ideologue Emil Augsburg, an officer at the infamous Wannsee Institute, the SS think tank involved in planning the Final Solution. Augsburg's SS unit performed "special duties," a euphemism for exterminating Jews and other "undesirables" during the Second World War.

Although he was wanted in Poland for war crimes, Augsburg managed to ingratiate himself with the U.S. CIA, which employed him in the late 1940s as an expert on Soviet affairs.

Recently released CIA records indicate that Augsburg was among a rogue's gallery of Nazi war criminals recruited by U.S. intelligence shortly after Germany surrendered to the Allies.

Pried loose by Congress, which passed the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act three years ago, a long-hidden trove of once-classified CIA documents confirms one of the worst-kept secrets of the Cold War – the CIA's use of an extensive Nazi spy network to wage a clandestine campaign against the Soviet Union.

The CIA reports show that U.S. officials knew they were subsidizing numerous Third Reich veterans who had committed horrible crimes against humanity, but these atrocities were overlooked as the anti-Communist crusade acquired its own momentum. For Nazis who would otherwise have been charged with war crimes, signing on with American intelligence enabled them to avoid a prison term.

CONTINUED...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/051601a.html

:eyes: Depending on INTEL from suspicious sources? Hmmmm Fool me once, fool me... well you can fool some of the people all the time?

Prolly didn't quote that exactly right, but I'm sure you can figure it out!

this is going beyond just feeding information to US forces. The Saddam loyalists will do the dirty work of assassinating Shiite clerics. The US military has joined the holy wars in Iraq using illegal methods clearly against the Geneva Conventions as well as the US Constitution.