The CIA and Nazi War Criminals

The CIA and Nazi War Criminals

National Security Archive Posts Secret CIA History
Released Under Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act

Washington D.C., February 4, 2005 - Today the National Security Archive posted the CIA's secret documentary history of the U.S government's relationship with General Reinhard Gehlen, the German army's intelligence chief for the Eastern Front during World War II. At the end of the war, Gehlen established a close relationship with the U.S. and successfully maintained his intelligence network (it ultimately became the West German BND) even though he employed numerous former Nazis and known war criminals. The use of Gehlen's group, according to the CIA history, Forging an Intelligence Partnership: CIA and the Origins of the BND, 1945-49, was a "double edged sword" that "boosted the Warsaw Pact's propaganda efforts" and "suffered devastating penetrations by the KGB."

The declassified "SECRET RelGER" two-volume history was compiled by CIA historian Kevin Ruffner and presented in 1999 by CIA Deputy Director for Operations Jack Downing to the German intelligence service (Bundesnachrichtendienst) in remembrance of "the new and close ties" formed during post-war Germany to mark the fiftieth year of CIA-West German cooperation. This history was declassified in 2002 as a result of the work of The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG) and contains 97 key documents from various agencies.

This posting comes in the wake of public grievances lodged by members of the IWG that the CIA has not fully complied with the mandate of the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act and is continuing to withhold hundreds of thousands of pages of documentation related to their work. (Note 1) In interviews with the New York Times, three public members of the IWG said:

"I think that the CIA has defied the law, and in so doing has also trivialized the Holocaust, thumbed its nose at the survivors of the Holocaust and also at the Americans who gave their lives in the effort to defeat the Nazis in World War II." - Former congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman

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propagandists after WWII? (later integrated into the Republican Party)

This is my repsot and I would like to keep this issues alive

OSS recruited Nazis to assist in cold war against USSR and it seems to me that it backfired and the nazis have taken over the USA {tahansk in no small part to prescott bush GHWB and jr]

The "slaying of the king
I wonder if any of the media will{yawn} ask about grandpa bushfraud and his nazi pal "Fritzie" ?? What an all amerikan red,white and blue blood family..is family bush.
What me worry?"

I trust that the adults are guarding the nukes and not dickie,rummmy or condi..

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050206/us...

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA (news - web sites), under pressure from Congress, has agreed in principle to release new documents detailing its ties to former Nazis who aided U.S. Cold War espionage against the Soviet Union, officials said on Sunday. "

that the Ameican Nazis (the Bushes, etc.) were not the only monsters who teamed up with the post-war German Nazi war criminals.

I wonder how mant traitors in US govt..Ya can bet the numbers are huge...

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