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OSS and US Army Rescued tens of thousands of Nazis war criminals
In A Study of a Master Spy, published in London in 1961, Bob
Edwards, a member of Parliament and Kenneth Dunne, presented
documentary evidence that Allen Dulles of the CIA carried on secret
conferences with representatives of Hitler's SS Security Office in
February and March 1943. They learned that "Official Washington knew
Martin Bormann, Deputy Fuhrer of Hitler's Germany, master-minded the
international 'Die Spinne' (Spider) underground organization which
is planning to revive nazism
A long-hidden trove of recently unclassified CIA files CIA documents
confirms one of the worst-kept secrets of the Cold War. These
documents, 18,000 pages in all, confirm that U.S. intelligence
recruited and protected Nazis starting at the end of World War II.
The CIA's use of an extensive Nazi (human intelligence) 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. US Army Intelligence, a prime repository of Nazi
material, also has been slow to turn over its holdings. The Army has
individual files on some 20,000 Nazi-related figures.
Many Nazi criminals "received light punishment, no punishment at
all, or received compensation because Western spy agencies
considered them useful assets in the Cold War."
The CIA...use[d] former Nazis as informers after World War II.
U.S. government (OSS) systematically and deliberately recruited
active Nazis by the tens of thousands, rescued them, hired them and
relied upon them to serve American interests and purposes in postwar
Europe. This was documented in 1988 with material obtained from the
US government through the Freedom of Information Act by historian
Christopher Simpson and published in his booe. Blowback: America's
recruitment of Nazis and its effects on the Cold War. New York:
Weidenfeld & Nicholson.
Also the US Army's Field Intelligence Agency Technical (Unit) hunted
for German scientists who would be suitable candidates for a top-
secret program called "Overcast." Overcast evolved into Operation
Paperclip, through which the U.S. secretly brought over hundreds of
Nazi scientists to work in American military and industrial labs.As
Simpson reported in "Blowback," the Joint Chiefs of Staff initiated
that program in July 1945 to, according to a military memo, "exploit
chosen rare minds whose continuing intellectual productivity we wish
to use."
It was August 24, 1945, two weeks after the surrender of Japan,
three months after the German capitulation. General Reinhard Gehlen
in the battle uniform of an American general clambered down the
steps of the U.S. Army transport plane upon its arrival at
Washington National Airport. Reinhard Gehlen had been, up until the
recent capitulation, Adolph Hitler's chief intelligence officer
against the Soviet Union. His American captors had decked him out in
one of their uniforms to deceive the Russians, who were hunting him
as a war criminal. Gehlen returned to West Germany in the summer of
1946 with a mandate to rebuild his espionage organization and resume
spying on the East and against the Russians at the behest of
American intelligence.
In the eyes of the CIA, Reinhard Gehlen was an "asset" of staggering
potential. He was a professional (human intelligence) spymaster,
violently anti-Communist and, best of all, the controller of a vast
underground (HUMINT) network still in place inside Russian
frontiers. Gehlen oversaw all German military-intelligen
operations in Eastern Europe, the Balkans. and the USSR. His top
aides were Nazi zealots who had committed some of the most notorious
crimes of the war. In addition to sharing his vast espionage
archive on the USSR, Gehlen promised that he could resurrect an
underground network of battle-hardened anti-Communist assets who
were well placed to wreak havoc throughout the Soviet Union and
Eastern Europe.
His checkered past mattered not. "He's on our side and that's all
that matters," chuckled Allen Dulles, a U.S. intelligence officer
during the war who later headed the CIA.
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