This work would be a shock to most of those with a naive faith in goodness of countries supposed to be good, of which U.S. usually takes pride of first place, especially post WWII, with not just the constitution and its charter of human rights and equality, but the record of fighting nazis, with the civil war in between to prove the seriousness of intentions.
But if one bought this book along with The Nazi Hydra, and read that other - humongous - one first, reading this one after that comes like an easier introduction to a prior, original statement.
Yes, the horror and shock are all there, but now, one isn't as naive as in happier times past.
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Complete title:-
"America’s Nazi Secret: An Insider’s History of How the United States Department of Justice Obstructed Congress By: Blocking Congressional Investigations into Famous American Families Who Funded Hitler, Stalin and Arab terrorists; Lying to Congress, the GAO and the CIA about the Postwar Immigration of Eastern European Nazi War Criminals to the US; and Concealing from the 9/11 Investigators the role of the Arab Nazi War Criminals in Recruiting Modern Middle Eastern Terrorist Groups."
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"We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
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From Publisher's Foreword:-
"When I first came across The Belarus Secret, an earlier version of this book, in the 1980s at my public library, I was amazed at the revelations, and surprised to find some of the same characters that I had come across while researching a subject I call “CIA-drugs.” The same intelligence-community crew that was corrupting our Republic from the shadows … was also, and most egregiously, doing so from within.
"I had first heard of this cancer in the late 1960s from my father, an OSS/CIA veteran. But at that time I had no context within which to put his rare, frank discussions of how he felt the world really works. He spoke to me about the drug trade, about psychological warfare, propaganda and “big games.” He said the news wasn’t the real news; they were “sway” pieces. I didn’t comprehend that at all at the time. As a kid, I had been a paperboy for almost six years and my father would get up with me in the dark morning hours and read the paper. And he had been an avid TV news watcher. He did make odd comments to the TV now and then; during an NBC report on Vietnam, he suddenly retorted aloud, “No, we knew that!” But the whole concept of controlled news was beyond me. It just wouldn’t compute in my teen-age brain."
"At the bottom is the level I call Media-Movies-“Magic.” This is where the hooves hit the road, where the beast gets its traction and the capacity to manipulate perception – keeping us all ignorant about the true reality of the world – and to game us unmercifully. “Magic” consists of psychological warfare, meme warfare, groupthink and a myriad of other covert ways to manipulate and coerce us. “Magic” is the ability to hoodwink. Movies are a very important part of our cultural landscape and they have an immense impact on society’s norms, moods, values and cultural narratives…. For that reason, they are highly controlled."
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From Author's Note for Second printing:-
"Before his death in 2009, Mark Richard commissioned a 600-page classified report in which the Justice Department defended Richard's role in the failed “hunt” for Nazi war criminals in America. Of the 15,000 Nazi war criminals officially estimated to have lived in America, fewer than one hundred received any form of mild sanction from the Justice Department, and that at a staggering cost of more than a half-million dollars per case. Congress had delivered the money, but Justice never delivered the goods. Nazi hunting may have been the least effective program in Justice Department history."
"Many of the Times' “journalists” over the years have actually been shady covert operatives running assassinations and South American coups. Nowadays, the Times doesn't hire Nazis or spies, but it continues to turn a blind eye to such activities. In return for scoops, the Times washes the dirty laundry of the intelligence community. They all know how to scrub a story."
"For example in the 1980s, the Times ran several skeptical articles about a New Yorker named Mykola Lebed being a “suspected” Nazi. Despite my urging, the Times would dig no further. A pity, because there was a lot they could have dug up. Lebed had been the head of the Ukrainian version of the Gestapo, whose thugs murdered Simon Wiesenthal's mother, along with tens of thousands of Poles, Jews and other Ukrainian citizens."
"I also briefed Sullivan and his buddy Allan Ryan on the Justice Department's embarrassing connections to the Lebed case. In addition to finding Lebed's intelligence visa personally signed by the Attorney General (behind Truman's back), I had found a 1950s intelligence letter to the Eisenhower Justice Department asking to admit Lebed's entire Nazi team for immigration so they could be employed as assassins behind the Iron Curtain. I asked Ryan and Sullivan if I could open the sealed Justice Department “Sunrise” files to look for Ukrainian Nazis admitted in the 1950s.
"Permission was denied."
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From Publisher's Foreword:-
"When I first came across The Belarus Secret, an earlier version of this book, in the 1980s at my public library, I was amazed at the revelations, and surprised to find some of the same characters that I had come across while researching a subject I call “CIA-drugs.” The same intelligence-community crew that was corrupting our Republic from the shadows … was also, and most egregiously, doing so from within.
"I had first heard of this cancer in the late 1960s from my father, an OSS/CIA veteran. But at that time I had no context within which to put his rare, frank discussions of how he felt the world really works. He spoke to me about the drug trade, about psychological warfare, propaganda and “big games.” He said the news wasn’t the real news; they were “sway” pieces. I didn’t comprehend that at all at the time. As a kid, I had been a paperboy for almost six years and my father would get up with me in the dark morning hours and read the paper. And he had been an avid TV news watcher. He did make odd comments to the TV now and then; during an NBC report on Vietnam, he suddenly retorted aloud, “No, we knew that!” But the whole concept of controlled news was beyond me. It just wouldn’t compute in my teen-age brain."
"At the bottom is the level I call Media-Movies-“Magic.” This is where the hooves hit the road, where the beast gets its traction and the capacity to manipulate perception – keeping us all ignorant about the true reality of the world – and to game us unmercifully. “Magic” consists of psychological warfare, meme warfare, groupthink and a myriad of other covert ways to manipulate and coerce us. “Magic” is the ability to hoodwink. Movies are a very important part of our cultural landscape and they have an immense impact on society’s norms, moods, values and cultural narratives…. For that reason, they are highly controlled."
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From Author's Note for Second printing:-
"Before his death in 2009, Mark Richard commissioned a 600-page classified report in which the Justice Department defended Richard's role in the failed “hunt” for Nazi war criminals in America. Of the 15,000 Nazi war criminals officially estimated to have lived in America, fewer than one hundred received any form of mild sanction from the Justice Department, and that at a staggering cost of more than a half-million dollars per case. Congress had delivered the money, but Justice never delivered the goods. Nazi hunting may have been the least effective program in Justice Department history."
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"Many of the Times' “journalists” over the years have actually been shady covert operatives running assassinations and South American coups. Nowadays, the Times doesn't hire Nazis or spies, but it continues to turn a blind eye to such activities. In return for scoops, the Times washes the dirty laundry of the intelligence community. They all know how to scrub a story."
"For example in the 1980s, the Times ran several skeptical articles about a New Yorker named Mykola Lebed being a “suspected” Nazi. Despite my urging, the Times would dig no further. A pity, because there was a lot they could have dug up. Lebed had been the head of the Ukrainian version of the Gestapo, whose thugs murdered Simon Wiesenthal's mother, along with tens of thousands of Poles, Jews and other Ukrainian citizens."
"I also briefed Sullivan and his buddy Allan Ryan on the Justice Department's embarrassing connections to the Lebed case. In addition to finding Lebed's intelligence visa personally signed by the Attorney General (behind Truman's back), I had found a 1950s intelligence letter to the Eisenhower Justice Department asking to admit Lebed's entire Nazi team for immigration so they could be employed as assassins behind the Iron Curtain. I asked Ryan and Sullivan if I could open the sealed Justice Department “Sunrise” files to look for Ukrainian Nazis admitted in the 1950s.
"Permission was denied."
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"Nearly two decades after I tried to get Justice to move against Mykola Lebed and his network of Nazis, Professor Jeffrey Burds of Northeastern University confirmed the extent of Lebed's atrocities by interviewing eyewitnesses and reviewing recently opened Ukrainian archives. The professor had no doubt that Lebed had been a major war criminal, perhaps the highest ranking Nazi murderer ever to arrive in America.
"In 2006, he met with Eli Rosenbaum, the last head of the Justice Department's Nazi hunting unit, who continued to insist that Lebed was nothing of the sort, and that I had exaggerated Lebed's entire Nazi collaboration. I then told Professor Burds about a memo that same bureaucrat had written back when he worked for me as a law clerk. Rosenbaum had reviewed newspaper articles referencing Nazis wanted by the USSR, compiling a list of the two dozen most notorious. Lebed was featured prominently in Rosenbaum's catalog of major war criminals.
"Perhaps Mr. Rosenbaum forgot. The Times seems to have forgotten a lot as well, apparently never questioning how someone like Lebed could stay in America without the Justice Department ever checking up on him."
"There are other oddities. Someone has shredded the bulk of the CIA's entire file collection on the Muslim Brotherhood. There are only a few press clippings in the file. The New York Times continues to publish puff pieces about the wonderful Muslim Brotherhood as an old fashioned anti-colonial political group that may play a modern role in a future Egyptian government. The truth, as this book reveals, is that the Muslim Brotherhood was the original Arab Nazi movement, working for British intelligence to crush the infant State of Israel. In the 1980s it was hired by American intelligence to recruit the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan, and it is now the parent organization of every Sunni terrorist group in the Middle East. A rather significant omission in the Times' coverage of the Muslim Brotherhood, wouldn't you say?"
"Nearly two decades after I tried to get Justice to move against Mykola Lebed and his network of Nazis, Professor Jeffrey Burds of Northeastern University confirmed the extent of Lebed's atrocities by interviewing eyewitnesses and reviewing recently opened Ukrainian archives. The professor had no doubt that Lebed had been a major war criminal, perhaps the highest ranking Nazi murderer ever to arrive in America.
"In 2006, he met with Eli Rosenbaum, the last head of the Justice Department's Nazi hunting unit, who continued to insist that Lebed was nothing of the sort, and that I had exaggerated Lebed's entire Nazi collaboration. I then told Professor Burds about a memo that same bureaucrat had written back when he worked for me as a law clerk. Rosenbaum had reviewed newspaper articles referencing Nazis wanted by the USSR, compiling a list of the two dozen most notorious. Lebed was featured prominently in Rosenbaum's catalog of major war criminals.
"Perhaps Mr. Rosenbaum forgot. The Times seems to have forgotten a lot as well, apparently never questioning how someone like Lebed could stay in America without the Justice Department ever checking up on him."
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"There are other oddities. Someone has shredded the bulk of the CIA's entire file collection on the Muslim Brotherhood. There are only a few press clippings in the file. The New York Times continues to publish puff pieces about the wonderful Muslim Brotherhood as an old fashioned anti-colonial political group that may play a modern role in a future Egyptian government. The truth, as this book reveals, is that the Muslim Brotherhood was the original Arab Nazi movement, working for British intelligence to crush the infant State of Israel. In the 1980s it was hired by American intelligence to recruit the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan, and it is now the parent organization of every Sunni terrorist group in the Middle East. A rather significant omission in the Times' coverage of the Muslim Brotherhood, wouldn't you say?"
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""There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be."
"– New York Times, Nov. 15, 1931, page 1
""Enemies and foreign critics can say what they please. Weaklings and despondents at home may groan under the burden, but the youth and strength of the Russian people is essentially at one with the Kremlin’s program, believes it worthwhile and supports it, however hard be the sledding."
"– New York Times, December 9, 1932, page 6
""There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition."
"– New York Times, March 31, 1933, page 13
""You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs."
"– New York Times, May 14, 1933, page 18
""Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda.
"– New York Times, August 23, 1933
"[The news dispatches of Walter Duranty, the New York Times Moscow correspondent who won the Pulitzer Prize for a lie: he covered up the Ukrainian Famine to conceal Stalin’s crimes.]"
"The New York Times has a long history of deception by omission. During WWII, the Times omitted numerous reports of Nazi atrocities against Jews, and buried even the smallest mention of what we now call the Holocaust in its back pages. The Times has since acknowledged this as a major journalistic failure. During the post-war struggles that lead to the creation of the State of Israel, Times' reporting can best be described as neutral or in favor of the Arabs, perhaps because the owner of the paper had publicly declared that if Israel ever became a nation, he would “resign from the Jewish race.”
"That owner frequently corresponded with his friend, Robert P. Joyce of State Department intelligence. He offered the newspaper as a cover for covert operations. The Times has never reported that its foreign bureaus were used to support the assassination of President Allende in Chile, the overthrow of the Mossadegh democracy in Iran, and the hiring of former Nazi intelligence officers during the Cold War."
""There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be."
"– New York Times, Nov. 15, 1931, page 1
""Enemies and foreign critics can say what they please. Weaklings and despondents at home may groan under the burden, but the youth and strength of the Russian people is essentially at one with the Kremlin’s program, believes it worthwhile and supports it, however hard be the sledding."
"– New York Times, December 9, 1932, page 6
""There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition."
"– New York Times, March 31, 1933, page 13
""You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs."
"– New York Times, May 14, 1933, page 18
""Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda.
"– New York Times, August 23, 1933
"[The news dispatches of Walter Duranty, the New York Times Moscow correspondent who won the Pulitzer Prize for a lie: he covered up the Ukrainian Famine to conceal Stalin’s crimes.]"
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"The New York Times has a long history of deception by omission. During WWII, the Times omitted numerous reports of Nazi atrocities against Jews, and buried even the smallest mention of what we now call the Holocaust in its back pages. The Times has since acknowledged this as a major journalistic failure. During the post-war struggles that lead to the creation of the State of Israel, Times' reporting can best be described as neutral or in favor of the Arabs, perhaps because the owner of the paper had publicly declared that if Israel ever became a nation, he would “resign from the Jewish race.”
"That owner frequently corresponded with his friend, Robert P. Joyce of State Department intelligence. He offered the newspaper as a cover for covert operations. The Times has never reported that its foreign bureaus were used to support the assassination of President Allende in Chile, the overthrow of the Mossadegh democracy in Iran, and the hiring of former Nazi intelligence officers during the Cold War."
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From Introduction by author:-
"I was twenty seven years old when I was assigned to the Criminal Division, Appellate Section. My office was on the second floor, next to the “Great Hall of Justice.” Depression-era mosaics lined the walls and staircase, depicting the famous lawgivers of history, from Hammurabi to the Prophet Mohammed. On center stage was the famous statue of the “Spirit of Justice” a semi-nude woman without blindfold or the scales of Justice. Our Latin motto translated as “We who follow the Lady Justice.”
"My new boss shook my hand and said, “Welcome to the Justice Department. You now represent the most corrupt client in the world, the United States Government.” I thought he was kidding. I still think he was wrong. I did not work for the most corrupt client, just the most corrupt law firm.
"For nearly a century, Wall Street has made the Justice Department its principal target of acquisition. Huge corporate campaign donations come with a price. The donors get to name the Attorney General … not always, but often. You cannot buy the US Government, but the Justice Department is for rent. It is a very lucrative business.
"The environmental crimes unit at Justice can make or break corporate polluters.
"The Tax Division controls the IRS through binding interpretation of tax laws. When Congress passed the Refugee Relief Act in the 1950s banning immigrants who supported totalitarian regimes, Justice’s INS interpreted the ban to apply only to those who advocated a totalitarian regime in the United States. Thus, Congressional intent to ban the immigration of those who had supported the regimes of Hitler, Mussolini or Tojo was simply reversed by Eisenhower’s Attorney General. Instead of banning Nazi immigrations, DOJ said the law legalized the immigration of former Nazis as long as they did not try to establish a Fourth Reich in America. Worse, that twisted interpretation was deployed to obstruct the Justice Department’s Nazi hunters three decades later."
"Some may say that I am a bit harsh, that perhaps some misconduct occurred in the past which would never be tolerated in the modern Justice Department. After all, one Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, resigned rather than cave in to President Nixon’s corrupt and unlawful orders. What the defenders of DOJ tend to gloss over is that once the Attorney General had resigned, the rest of the bureaucrats at Justice were all too willing to carry out Nixon’s commands.
"The bottom line is that corporate control of Justice protects the corporations’ bottom lines. For example, the Federal Courts once ruled that the Big Tobacco companies had to pay billions and billions of dollars to reimburse Medicare and Medicaid for the cost of caring for the victims of lung disease. The Big Tobacco companies donated a few tens of millions to elect a Republican President, who appointed a Tobacco-friendly Attorney General. Embarrassed federal prosecutors told the court that they had been ordered to request a much lesser amount of damages than the Judge had already awarded. The Justice Department gave billions of the taxpayers dollars back to the Big Tobacco companies."
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From Introduction by author:-
"I was twenty seven years old when I was assigned to the Criminal Division, Appellate Section. My office was on the second floor, next to the “Great Hall of Justice.” Depression-era mosaics lined the walls and staircase, depicting the famous lawgivers of history, from Hammurabi to the Prophet Mohammed. On center stage was the famous statue of the “Spirit of Justice” a semi-nude woman without blindfold or the scales of Justice. Our Latin motto translated as “We who follow the Lady Justice.”
"My new boss shook my hand and said, “Welcome to the Justice Department. You now represent the most corrupt client in the world, the United States Government.” I thought he was kidding. I still think he was wrong. I did not work for the most corrupt client, just the most corrupt law firm.
"For nearly a century, Wall Street has made the Justice Department its principal target of acquisition. Huge corporate campaign donations come with a price. The donors get to name the Attorney General … not always, but often. You cannot buy the US Government, but the Justice Department is for rent. It is a very lucrative business.
"The environmental crimes unit at Justice can make or break corporate polluters.
"The Tax Division controls the IRS through binding interpretation of tax laws. When Congress passed the Refugee Relief Act in the 1950s banning immigrants who supported totalitarian regimes, Justice’s INS interpreted the ban to apply only to those who advocated a totalitarian regime in the United States. Thus, Congressional intent to ban the immigration of those who had supported the regimes of Hitler, Mussolini or Tojo was simply reversed by Eisenhower’s Attorney General. Instead of banning Nazi immigrations, DOJ said the law legalized the immigration of former Nazis as long as they did not try to establish a Fourth Reich in America. Worse, that twisted interpretation was deployed to obstruct the Justice Department’s Nazi hunters three decades later."
"Some may say that I am a bit harsh, that perhaps some misconduct occurred in the past which would never be tolerated in the modern Justice Department. After all, one Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, resigned rather than cave in to President Nixon’s corrupt and unlawful orders. What the defenders of DOJ tend to gloss over is that once the Attorney General had resigned, the rest of the bureaucrats at Justice were all too willing to carry out Nixon’s commands.
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"The bottom line is that corporate control of Justice protects the corporations’ bottom lines. For example, the Federal Courts once ruled that the Big Tobacco companies had to pay billions and billions of dollars to reimburse Medicare and Medicaid for the cost of caring for the victims of lung disease. The Big Tobacco companies donated a few tens of millions to elect a Republican President, who appointed a Tobacco-friendly Attorney General. Embarrassed federal prosecutors told the court that they had been ordered to request a much lesser amount of damages than the Judge had already awarded. The Justice Department gave billions of the taxpayers dollars back to the Big Tobacco companies."
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"Once, without knowing it, I sat next to the defendant in a murder case – an Army doctor and Green Beret who had murdered his entire family. I later learned that one his of early defense counsels was a former Special Assistant Attorney General. Special indeed. He was the Justice Department lawyer who let free all the American corporate executives who had stayed in Germany to help their Nazi clients. These businessmen had literally given aid and comfort to the enemy during the war. All the striped-suit traitors were held in a joint prison camp code named Ashcan/Dustbin.
"The prison camp was under British authority, but the guards were all Americans. One of the guards told me years later that one of the pompous prisoners boasted that his friends at the Chase Manhattan Bank would take care of him. “Are you sure they would even want to hear your name?” the guard asked, confident that no American business would ever help someone accused of treason.
"The prisoner was right. The guard was wrong. The Special Assistant Attorney General of the United States closed all of the treason cases in Occupied Germany. Not a single corporate officer ever went to jail for doing business with the Nazis, either in America or the United Kingdom. The Justice Department covered it all up. More than a hundred American traitors were returned home after many profitable years of serving Hitler. The Army’s original investigative files, codenamed ASHCAN and DUSTBIN are still off limits to “protect the privacy” of the American citizens involved. An American Intelligence Officer, Allen Dulles, used his position in the OSS to protect himself and his clients from investigation for laundering Nazi funds back to America.[8] In addition to Dulles, President Franklin Roosevelt had his own Vice President and Attorney General under surveillance for protecting those American businessmen with commercial ties to the Third Reich. After British wiretapping suggested that FDR’s right-hand man had leaked classified information to a pro-Nazi Swedish businessman, FDR quickly replaced his Vice President with Harry Truman, who had a reputation for bipartisan investigation into American corporate corruption.
"Unfortunately, President Roosevelt did not brief Truman on the investigations into Dulles and the Attorney General, both of whom were retained by Truman after Roosevelt’s death. What President Truman also did not know was that FDR permitted British assassination teams to murder pro-Nazi American businessmen in New York. Mention of the American-Nazi collaboration and the British assassination teams were censored from the original edition of this book, along with any mention of the Vatican’s role in laundering Nazi money back to the American corporate investors."
"Such censorship only proves that I started off on the right track nearly thirty years ago. In the following decades, my Australian co-author, Mark Aarons and I have combed through international archives for declassified traces of America’s Nazi Secrets. Our initial endeavor, a documentary series on ABC Australian National Radio exposing the Vatican’s role in smuggling Nazi war criminals out of Europe, won second place in the world in the Armstrong Radio Award. Subsequently, we made a five-part documentary series on Nazis in Australia, which prompted an official inquiry and led to major changes to Australia’s war-crimes legislation. Mark Aarons then published a history of Nazis “down under,” which won major journalistic acclaim. Our first joint book, Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, the Nazis and the Swiss Banks, became an international best seller and has been translated into many languages.
"With my Canadian friend, Brendan Howley, I co-authored a fiction-based-on-fact history of the Dulles family called The Witness Tree, which has never appeared in print in America, perhaps because if its embarrassing revelation about the Bush family. My next joint endeavor with Mark Aarons, The Secret War Against the Jews is considered a classic of intelligence history and is still in print, except of course in England, where it is still banned."
"The financial rot inside the Justice Department that began before WWII has never been cleansed. It has given corporate America a continuing source of blackmail against the career bureaucrats at DOJ who participated in the original Nazi cover-up. As we shall see, DOJ continues to be involved in the modern sequels, the Arab Nazi recruitment of the 9/11 terrorist groups, an inadvertent result of American oil company manipulation of DOJ and State. The Old Nazis are the New Nazis, their old evil still bottled in the same old barrels of oil."
" ... I did not know this in 1979 when I first applied for a transfer to the Criminal Division’s Office of Special Investigations, the unit newly created by Congress to pursue Nazi war criminals living in America. ... "
"OSI’s first director was Walter J. Rockler, a former prosecutor at the Bankers’ Trial at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. As I would soon discover, Walter was the real deal, and already knew quite a bit about the Nazi cover-up. He volunteered to join the Justice Department’s reopened Nazi unit in 1979, to finish a job he had started during WWII.
"After serving with Army intelligence, Rockler had been assigned to the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg to prepare war-crimes charges against those German bankers who had funded the Nazi war machine. Rockler told me how unnamed higher authorities kept eliminating his investigative budget. Sadly, this was happening to anyone in the Allied forces who poked his nose into the source of Nazi capital.
"Because of a lack of witnesses, and dwindling resources, Rockler had been finally forced to drop the investigation against Herman Abs and Deutsche Bank. The very next day Abs was appointed economic adviser to the British Zone of Occupied Germany. All of the British residents of Ashcan/Dustbin were quietly released. Several members of the British Royal Family had Nazi dossiers that were quietly returned by American intelligence to the British Secret Service."
"Once, without knowing it, I sat next to the defendant in a murder case – an Army doctor and Green Beret who had murdered his entire family. I later learned that one his of early defense counsels was a former Special Assistant Attorney General. Special indeed. He was the Justice Department lawyer who let free all the American corporate executives who had stayed in Germany to help their Nazi clients. These businessmen had literally given aid and comfort to the enemy during the war. All the striped-suit traitors were held in a joint prison camp code named Ashcan/Dustbin.
"The prison camp was under British authority, but the guards were all Americans. One of the guards told me years later that one of the pompous prisoners boasted that his friends at the Chase Manhattan Bank would take care of him. “Are you sure they would even want to hear your name?” the guard asked, confident that no American business would ever help someone accused of treason.
"The prisoner was right. The guard was wrong. The Special Assistant Attorney General of the United States closed all of the treason cases in Occupied Germany. Not a single corporate officer ever went to jail for doing business with the Nazis, either in America or the United Kingdom. The Justice Department covered it all up. More than a hundred American traitors were returned home after many profitable years of serving Hitler. The Army’s original investigative files, codenamed ASHCAN and DUSTBIN are still off limits to “protect the privacy” of the American citizens involved. An American Intelligence Officer, Allen Dulles, used his position in the OSS to protect himself and his clients from investigation for laundering Nazi funds back to America.[8] In addition to Dulles, President Franklin Roosevelt had his own Vice President and Attorney General under surveillance for protecting those American businessmen with commercial ties to the Third Reich. After British wiretapping suggested that FDR’s right-hand man had leaked classified information to a pro-Nazi Swedish businessman, FDR quickly replaced his Vice President with Harry Truman, who had a reputation for bipartisan investigation into American corporate corruption.
"Unfortunately, President Roosevelt did not brief Truman on the investigations into Dulles and the Attorney General, both of whom were retained by Truman after Roosevelt’s death. What President Truman also did not know was that FDR permitted British assassination teams to murder pro-Nazi American businessmen in New York. Mention of the American-Nazi collaboration and the British assassination teams were censored from the original edition of this book, along with any mention of the Vatican’s role in laundering Nazi money back to the American corporate investors."
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"Such censorship only proves that I started off on the right track nearly thirty years ago. In the following decades, my Australian co-author, Mark Aarons and I have combed through international archives for declassified traces of America’s Nazi Secrets. Our initial endeavor, a documentary series on ABC Australian National Radio exposing the Vatican’s role in smuggling Nazi war criminals out of Europe, won second place in the world in the Armstrong Radio Award. Subsequently, we made a five-part documentary series on Nazis in Australia, which prompted an official inquiry and led to major changes to Australia’s war-crimes legislation. Mark Aarons then published a history of Nazis “down under,” which won major journalistic acclaim. Our first joint book, Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, the Nazis and the Swiss Banks, became an international best seller and has been translated into many languages.
"With my Canadian friend, Brendan Howley, I co-authored a fiction-based-on-fact history of the Dulles family called The Witness Tree, which has never appeared in print in America, perhaps because if its embarrassing revelation about the Bush family. My next joint endeavor with Mark Aarons, The Secret War Against the Jews is considered a classic of intelligence history and is still in print, except of course in England, where it is still banned."
"The financial rot inside the Justice Department that began before WWII has never been cleansed. It has given corporate America a continuing source of blackmail against the career bureaucrats at DOJ who participated in the original Nazi cover-up. As we shall see, DOJ continues to be involved in the modern sequels, the Arab Nazi recruitment of the 9/11 terrorist groups, an inadvertent result of American oil company manipulation of DOJ and State. The Old Nazis are the New Nazis, their old evil still bottled in the same old barrels of oil."
" ... I did not know this in 1979 when I first applied for a transfer to the Criminal Division’s Office of Special Investigations, the unit newly created by Congress to pursue Nazi war criminals living in America. ... "
"OSI’s first director was Walter J. Rockler, a former prosecutor at the Bankers’ Trial at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal. As I would soon discover, Walter was the real deal, and already knew quite a bit about the Nazi cover-up. He volunteered to join the Justice Department’s reopened Nazi unit in 1979, to finish a job he had started during WWII.
"After serving with Army intelligence, Rockler had been assigned to the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg to prepare war-crimes charges against those German bankers who had funded the Nazi war machine. Rockler told me how unnamed higher authorities kept eliminating his investigative budget. Sadly, this was happening to anyone in the Allied forces who poked his nose into the source of Nazi capital.
"Because of a lack of witnesses, and dwindling resources, Rockler had been finally forced to drop the investigation against Herman Abs and Deutsche Bank. The very next day Abs was appointed economic adviser to the British Zone of Occupied Germany. All of the British residents of Ashcan/Dustbin were quietly released. Several members of the British Royal Family had Nazi dossiers that were quietly returned by American intelligence to the British Secret Service."
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"One prominent royal, Edward, Duke of Windsor, had actually served as King before he was forced to abdicate. He claimed that he left the throne “to marry the woman I love.”
"The truth, however, is that SIS [MI6] wire tappers had made phonograph recordings of the Duke of Windsor making pre-war deals with Hitler’s Ambassador to the Court of Saint James. Even after his abdication, Windsor was regarded by J. Edgar Hoover as “such a dangerous Nazi agent” that he was kept under Allied surveillance throughout the war.
"Forced to abdicate in December 1936, Edward and his American wife, Wallace Simpson, toured Germany in 1937. During his visit with Hitler, the dictator promised to restore him to the throne of England as its first fascist King. As his part of the bargain, it was said, Edward successfully betrayed the entire plan of the Maginot line to the Third Reich. British intelligence interceded just as Edward and Wallace were preparing to flee neutral Spain for Germany. They were seized and interned in the Bahamas for the duration of the war. At Churchill’s request to President Eisenhower, the Justice Department covered up the Windsor secret until I stumbled across the files in the Attorney General’s Top Secret vault."
"The British were not the only ones to cover up embarrassing Nazi connections. During the Nuremberg trials, one of the prosecuting attorneys, the same Walter J. Rockler who later became my boss at OSI, discovered a German document listing the thirteen American banks that had secretly worked for the Third Reich during WWII. After his investigative unit was shut down, Rockler kept the Nazi bank list to prevent it from being shredded."
"I found some of the missing documents when I raided the offices of Professor Alexander Dallin, Chair of the History Department at Stanford University. The terrified professor quickly turned over boxes of unpublished Einsatzgruppen reports, records of the SS mobile killing units in Eastern Europe. These records contained the names of Nazi collaborators from Belarus and Ukraine, men who had earned their spurs by carrying out the mass murder of their own countrymen. Similar records concerning Polish collaborators with the Nazis were pulled from the Nuremberg trials before the Russians could get their hands on them."
"One prominent royal, Edward, Duke of Windsor, had actually served as King before he was forced to abdicate. He claimed that he left the throne “to marry the woman I love.”
"The truth, however, is that SIS [MI6] wire tappers had made phonograph recordings of the Duke of Windsor making pre-war deals with Hitler’s Ambassador to the Court of Saint James. Even after his abdication, Windsor was regarded by J. Edgar Hoover as “such a dangerous Nazi agent” that he was kept under Allied surveillance throughout the war.
"Forced to abdicate in December 1936, Edward and his American wife, Wallace Simpson, toured Germany in 1937. During his visit with Hitler, the dictator promised to restore him to the throne of England as its first fascist King. As his part of the bargain, it was said, Edward successfully betrayed the entire plan of the Maginot line to the Third Reich. British intelligence interceded just as Edward and Wallace were preparing to flee neutral Spain for Germany. They were seized and interned in the Bahamas for the duration of the war. At Churchill’s request to President Eisenhower, the Justice Department covered up the Windsor secret until I stumbled across the files in the Attorney General’s Top Secret vault."
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"The British were not the only ones to cover up embarrassing Nazi connections. During the Nuremberg trials, one of the prosecuting attorneys, the same Walter J. Rockler who later became my boss at OSI, discovered a German document listing the thirteen American banks that had secretly worked for the Third Reich during WWII. After his investigative unit was shut down, Rockler kept the Nazi bank list to prevent it from being shredded."
"I found some of the missing documents when I raided the offices of Professor Alexander Dallin, Chair of the History Department at Stanford University. The terrified professor quickly turned over boxes of unpublished Einsatzgruppen reports, records of the SS mobile killing units in Eastern Europe. These records contained the names of Nazi collaborators from Belarus and Ukraine, men who had earned their spurs by carrying out the mass murder of their own countrymen. Similar records concerning Polish collaborators with the Nazis were pulled from the Nuremberg trials before the Russians could get their hands on them."
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"The most distressing stolen document that Professor Dallin produced from his hoard was the unpublished memoirs of a senior SS officer, Friedrich Buchardt, who had written a history of the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe. Professor Dallin had plagiarized Buchardt’s manuscript for his own famous work, Russia Under German Rule. Buchardt had been the leader of VorKommano Moskau, one of the SS mobile killing units which specialized in recruiting local collaborators from Belarus and the Ukraine as spies.
"Dallin confessed to me that his Nazis had also been used for Harvard’s Russian Research Project, and gave me the code list for the “anonymous” interview subjects, almost all of whom had been Nazi collaborators. I found the matching files at Harvard in drawer B2. Both Harvard and Stanford owe an apology for perpetrating an academic fraud upon the public, and polluting almost the entire field of Russian sociological studies during the Cold War.
"The US Department of State’s intelligence service masterminded the Nazi cover-up. George Kennan’s friend Gustav Hilger had been the liaison between the German Foreign Office and the SS Mobile Killing units. It was Kennan who personally recruited Hilger and tried to bring him to America. Kennan screamed at me over the telephone that I was defaming his reputation, but quietly dropped his threats of a lawsuit when I told him that I had read his files. I had a similar experience with Henry Kissinger."
"Teddy Roosevelt, arguably the most honest of the Republican Presidents, was the only one in the GOP who tried to bring the Robber barons to their knees. He persuaded Congress to pass extremely strict anti-trust, anti-cartel, and anti-monopoly legislation. In 1918, the Robber Barons fought back, and somehow convinced Congress to pass the Webb-Pomerene Act. This little-know loophole law permitted the creation of American trusts, monopolies, etc., as long as it was done overseas. Because of this loophole law, investment capital left America in a great flood, one of the contributing causes of the crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.
"During the 1920s three countries were targeted for takeover by the Robber Barons: Germany, Russia and what is now known as Saudi Arabia. The tactics were the same: American cartels bribed their way into friendly governments and then protected their investments by hiring local mercenaries – paid terrorist groups who watched over their interests.
"In Saudi Arabia, the terrorists for hire were known as the Ikhwan al Muslimeen, the Muslim Brothers, or more colloquially, the Muslim Brotherhood. The Robber Barons armed this group of fanatical Wahhabists, who drove the peaceful Hashemite rulers out of Mecca and Medina and installed the House of Saud. The Saudis named the country after themselves, created an oil company with their American investors (Aramco), and then promptly threw the Ikhwan terrorists out of Saudi Arabia. The Saudis were not stupid after all.
"The Ikhwan settled primarily in Egypt, where they joined the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood created by Hassan Al Banna in 1928. He was a devout admirer of and correspondent with young Adolf Hitler. “In heaven Allah, on earth Hitler” was their battle cry. Hassan’s Muslim Brotherhood became a fully-integrated arm of the German intelligence and propaganda networks during WWII. They specialized in acts of terrorism and assassinations of Allied troops, promising German General Erwin Rommel that he would not find a single Allied soldier left alive when he arrived in Cairo.
"The Arab Nazis remain the only segment of the Third Reich that was never punished or even dismantled. After the war, the British Secret Service hired the Ikwahn terrorists, and used them as a fifth column in an attempt to destroy the infant state of Israel in 1948. When Gamal Nasser and the leftists took over Egypt, they banned this huge army of Arab Nazis now numbering nearly three quarters of a million strong. In the 1950s the same Robber Barons who helped fund and create the original Saudi Ikwahn, convinced their Saudi partners to take them back. The Saudis gladly accepted the Nazi refugees from the Egyptian Ikwahn and gave them citizenship."
"The most distressing stolen document that Professor Dallin produced from his hoard was the unpublished memoirs of a senior SS officer, Friedrich Buchardt, who had written a history of the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe. Professor Dallin had plagiarized Buchardt’s manuscript for his own famous work, Russia Under German Rule. Buchardt had been the leader of VorKommano Moskau, one of the SS mobile killing units which specialized in recruiting local collaborators from Belarus and the Ukraine as spies.
"Dallin confessed to me that his Nazis had also been used for Harvard’s Russian Research Project, and gave me the code list for the “anonymous” interview subjects, almost all of whom had been Nazi collaborators. I found the matching files at Harvard in drawer B2. Both Harvard and Stanford owe an apology for perpetrating an academic fraud upon the public, and polluting almost the entire field of Russian sociological studies during the Cold War.
"The US Department of State’s intelligence service masterminded the Nazi cover-up. George Kennan’s friend Gustav Hilger had been the liaison between the German Foreign Office and the SS Mobile Killing units. It was Kennan who personally recruited Hilger and tried to bring him to America. Kennan screamed at me over the telephone that I was defaming his reputation, but quietly dropped his threats of a lawsuit when I told him that I had read his files. I had a similar experience with Henry Kissinger."
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"Teddy Roosevelt, arguably the most honest of the Republican Presidents, was the only one in the GOP who tried to bring the Robber barons to their knees. He persuaded Congress to pass extremely strict anti-trust, anti-cartel, and anti-monopoly legislation. In 1918, the Robber Barons fought back, and somehow convinced Congress to pass the Webb-Pomerene Act. This little-know loophole law permitted the creation of American trusts, monopolies, etc., as long as it was done overseas. Because of this loophole law, investment capital left America in a great flood, one of the contributing causes of the crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.
"During the 1920s three countries were targeted for takeover by the Robber Barons: Germany, Russia and what is now known as Saudi Arabia. The tactics were the same: American cartels bribed their way into friendly governments and then protected their investments by hiring local mercenaries – paid terrorist groups who watched over their interests.
"In Saudi Arabia, the terrorists for hire were known as the Ikhwan al Muslimeen, the Muslim Brothers, or more colloquially, the Muslim Brotherhood. The Robber Barons armed this group of fanatical Wahhabists, who drove the peaceful Hashemite rulers out of Mecca and Medina and installed the House of Saud. The Saudis named the country after themselves, created an oil company with their American investors (Aramco), and then promptly threw the Ikhwan terrorists out of Saudi Arabia. The Saudis were not stupid after all.
"The Ikhwan settled primarily in Egypt, where they joined the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood created by Hassan Al Banna in 1928. He was a devout admirer of and correspondent with young Adolf Hitler. “In heaven Allah, on earth Hitler” was their battle cry. Hassan’s Muslim Brotherhood became a fully-integrated arm of the German intelligence and propaganda networks during WWII. They specialized in acts of terrorism and assassinations of Allied troops, promising German General Erwin Rommel that he would not find a single Allied soldier left alive when he arrived in Cairo.
"The Arab Nazis remain the only segment of the Third Reich that was never punished or even dismantled. After the war, the British Secret Service hired the Ikwahn terrorists, and used them as a fifth column in an attempt to destroy the infant state of Israel in 1948. When Gamal Nasser and the leftists took over Egypt, they banned this huge army of Arab Nazis now numbering nearly three quarters of a million strong. In the 1950s the same Robber Barons who helped fund and create the original Saudi Ikwahn, convinced their Saudi partners to take them back. The Saudis gladly accepted the Nazi refugees from the Egyptian Ikwahn and gave them citizenship."
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"The Dulles brothers sold the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist groups to the ever-gullible Eisenhower as a counterweight to the Arab Communists. It was a tragic error. History records the Muslim Brotherhood as the parent organization of every subsequent Sunni terrorist group from Hamas to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Mohammed Qutb, the brother of the chief Nazi propagandist, was the personal tutor of young Osama bin Laden. Although Congress and the CIA did not know it, the roots of the 9/11 tragedy began in the Eisenhower administration."
"The German currency might have been almost worthless, but German stock was priceless. By the 1930s, Germany had achieved a near-monopoly on high-tech industries, particularly in chemical processes. In fact, the Dusseldorf Patent Conference of 1939 was planned to formalize the Robber Barons domination of world markets through patent cartels. Since Germany allowed, indeed encouraged, cartels, it made the Robber Barons feel quite at home. Hitler and his Nazi party were funded to keep the unions and Communists at bay: just a dog on a leash, or so they thought. His finance minister, Hjalmar Schacht, had been born in Brooklyn and knew how the game was played on Wall Street.
"Herbert Walker, grandfather to President George Herbert Walker Bush, brought in the Brown Brothers investment firm from Britain to team up with the Harrimans and the Rockefellers. Brown Brothers Harriman had so many corrupt ties to the Nazi regime that it became the only bank in New York State history ever to obtain permission to shred its wartime and prewar files. It certainly had the influence to pull this off – two of its Nazi investment clients, Nelson Rockefeller and Averell Harriman, had become Governors of New York. Walker’s drunken son-in-law, Prescott Bush, was given a seat on the board of several of the Nazi front companies and served as director of the Union Bank in New York,[30] which secretly corresponded with its sister banks in Amsterdam and Berlin. No matter who won WWII, the ownership of the Thyssen holding companies could be shifted to whichever side came out on top.
"It really is not fair to say that any of the Robber Barons were “pro-Nazi” since they actually preferred the conservative Monarchists and Catholics to Hitler. Hitler knew that he was disliked, and the first thing he did when he became head of the government was to ban foreign ownership of German companies.
"In response, the Robber Barons used their influence to pass the Swiss Bank Secrecy Act of 1933. The Wall Street crowd secretly owned the stocks of the Swiss Banks, which owned the stocks of the German banks, which owned the stocks of the German companies. Hitler never knew how the Thyssens and their Wall Street investors kept their financial control intact, at least not until after war broke out, and the Wall Street ties to a third group of terrorists was finally exposed."
"The Dulles brothers sold the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist groups to the ever-gullible Eisenhower as a counterweight to the Arab Communists. It was a tragic error. History records the Muslim Brotherhood as the parent organization of every subsequent Sunni terrorist group from Hamas to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Mohammed Qutb, the brother of the chief Nazi propagandist, was the personal tutor of young Osama bin Laden. Although Congress and the CIA did not know it, the roots of the 9/11 tragedy began in the Eisenhower administration."
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"The German currency might have been almost worthless, but German stock was priceless. By the 1930s, Germany had achieved a near-monopoly on high-tech industries, particularly in chemical processes. In fact, the Dusseldorf Patent Conference of 1939 was planned to formalize the Robber Barons domination of world markets through patent cartels. Since Germany allowed, indeed encouraged, cartels, it made the Robber Barons feel quite at home. Hitler and his Nazi party were funded to keep the unions and Communists at bay: just a dog on a leash, or so they thought. His finance minister, Hjalmar Schacht, had been born in Brooklyn and knew how the game was played on Wall Street.
"Herbert Walker, grandfather to President George Herbert Walker Bush, brought in the Brown Brothers investment firm from Britain to team up with the Harrimans and the Rockefellers. Brown Brothers Harriman had so many corrupt ties to the Nazi regime that it became the only bank in New York State history ever to obtain permission to shred its wartime and prewar files. It certainly had the influence to pull this off – two of its Nazi investment clients, Nelson Rockefeller and Averell Harriman, had become Governors of New York. Walker’s drunken son-in-law, Prescott Bush, was given a seat on the board of several of the Nazi front companies and served as director of the Union Bank in New York,[30] which secretly corresponded with its sister banks in Amsterdam and Berlin. No matter who won WWII, the ownership of the Thyssen holding companies could be shifted to whichever side came out on top.
"It really is not fair to say that any of the Robber Barons were “pro-Nazi” since they actually preferred the conservative Monarchists and Catholics to Hitler. Hitler knew that he was disliked, and the first thing he did when he became head of the government was to ban foreign ownership of German companies.
"In response, the Robber Barons used their influence to pass the Swiss Bank Secrecy Act of 1933. The Wall Street crowd secretly owned the stocks of the Swiss Banks, which owned the stocks of the German banks, which owned the stocks of the German companies. Hitler never knew how the Thyssens and their Wall Street investors kept their financial control intact, at least not until after war broke out, and the Wall Street ties to a third group of terrorists was finally exposed."
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"After the Russian Revolution it was the Harrimans, staunch Democrats, who secretly bankrolled the Russian minority party (the Bolsheviks) against the Majority Mensheviks. Despite the fact that American troops were in Russia trying to prop up the pro-democracy Mensheviks, the Harrimans began illegal gold shipments to Lenin and his Bolshevik party. The Bolsheviks promised to continue the former Czar’s policy of condoning cartels. Russia had raw materials such as magnesium and iron ore, while the Thyssens had access to high-tech steel and chemical processes to turn the raw materials into steel.
"A decision was made for the Robber Barons to fund a German-Russian industrial park in eastern Poland. The Russian rail gauges were different from the European, so the park had to be close to the Russian border, but near coal fields. In order to help solve the rail problem, a series of canals were constructed to permit the Russians to barge raw materials to the Vistula River. The Polish province of Silesia was selected as the site of that industrial park because of its access to the Vistula and its proximity to huge coal deposits. The Silesian American Coal Company was managed by the Harrimans, with Prescott Bush on the board. Funding Hitler was a bi-partisan event.
"The future industrial park was planned for the town of Oswieczim, or Auschwitz as it was called by the Germans. Holocaust scholars have never even suspected that Auschwitz was originally planned as a profit center for Wall Street, but it was. During the last four years independent filmmaker Claire Ragge has done a thorough inquiry into the newly declassified files on the men who funded Hitler. Her film, tentatively titled “American Secrets” should be ready for release in 2011, along with a website listing each historical document sourcing each of the film’s allegations. Ms. Ragge has done a remarkable job, and has uncovered many secrets that would otherwise have escaped public scrutiny."
"In 1979, I was the attorney assigned by OSI Director Walter Rockler to head the “Belarus Project,” ostensibly a comprehensive review of American and German files pertaining to the Holocaust in Byelorussia, or Belarus as the Nazis called it. Privately, my secret assignment from Rockler was to find out who was responsible for sabotaging the postwar investigations of Nazi bankers at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. ..."
" ... The CIA quickly censored any mention of the Vatican role in smuggling Nazis. ..."
" ... I did not put the blame on the CIA for recruiting Nazis as Cold War spies, but on their rival spy agency in the State Department, the OPC. After Truman’s surprising defeat of Dewey in 1948, America actually had two CIA’s. There was the official CIA that worked for President Truman and the Democrats. The other CIA, the OPC, worked for Allen Dulles and the defeated Republicans under cover of the State and Justice Departments. The official CIA hunted Nazis, the other recruited them for the State Department’s OPC."
"After the Russian Revolution it was the Harrimans, staunch Democrats, who secretly bankrolled the Russian minority party (the Bolsheviks) against the Majority Mensheviks. Despite the fact that American troops were in Russia trying to prop up the pro-democracy Mensheviks, the Harrimans began illegal gold shipments to Lenin and his Bolshevik party. The Bolsheviks promised to continue the former Czar’s policy of condoning cartels. Russia had raw materials such as magnesium and iron ore, while the Thyssens had access to high-tech steel and chemical processes to turn the raw materials into steel.
"A decision was made for the Robber Barons to fund a German-Russian industrial park in eastern Poland. The Russian rail gauges were different from the European, so the park had to be close to the Russian border, but near coal fields. In order to help solve the rail problem, a series of canals were constructed to permit the Russians to barge raw materials to the Vistula River. The Polish province of Silesia was selected as the site of that industrial park because of its access to the Vistula and its proximity to huge coal deposits. The Silesian American Coal Company was managed by the Harrimans, with Prescott Bush on the board. Funding Hitler was a bi-partisan event.
"The future industrial park was planned for the town of Oswieczim, or Auschwitz as it was called by the Germans. Holocaust scholars have never even suspected that Auschwitz was originally planned as a profit center for Wall Street, but it was. During the last four years independent filmmaker Claire Ragge has done a thorough inquiry into the newly declassified files on the men who funded Hitler. Her film, tentatively titled “American Secrets” should be ready for release in 2011, along with a website listing each historical document sourcing each of the film’s allegations. Ms. Ragge has done a remarkable job, and has uncovered many secrets that would otherwise have escaped public scrutiny."
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"In 1979, I was the attorney assigned by OSI Director Walter Rockler to head the “Belarus Project,” ostensibly a comprehensive review of American and German files pertaining to the Holocaust in Byelorussia, or Belarus as the Nazis called it. Privately, my secret assignment from Rockler was to find out who was responsible for sabotaging the postwar investigations of Nazi bankers at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. ..."
" ... The CIA quickly censored any mention of the Vatican role in smuggling Nazis. ..."
" ... I did not put the blame on the CIA for recruiting Nazis as Cold War spies, but on their rival spy agency in the State Department, the OPC. After Truman’s surprising defeat of Dewey in 1948, America actually had two CIA’s. There was the official CIA that worked for President Truman and the Democrats. The other CIA, the OPC, worked for Allen Dulles and the defeated Republicans under cover of the State and Justice Departments. The official CIA hunted Nazis, the other recruited them for the State Department’s OPC."
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"I really did not know why anyone would bother blocking an investigation into Nazis. WWII and the Holocaust were long ago and far away. There was no remaining national security interest. After all, Kim Philby and his Cambridge Ring of Communist spies were at the heart of the Anglo-British recruitment of Nazi agents. They betrayed to Moscow every secret we had on the subject. No wonder the CIA files show a 98% capture rate for American agents sent behind the Iron Curtain. In my naïve way, I thought the whole story of Nazis as cold war spies was old news.
"But for some reason, people like Sullivan were working overtime to prevent my testifying before a secret session of Congress. They did not care about the Germans and their Eastern European Nazi collaborators. In hindsight, I think they were afraid I would tell Congress about the Arab Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood.
"Of course, I had seen all the Arab Nazi names in the classified files, but had no idea at the time I was testifying in 1985 that Vice President Bush had put the Arab Nazis back on our payroll, and that State and Justice were helping him hide the fact from Congress and the CIA. It never crossed my mind that anyone could be that stupid. Bush had briefly been CIA Director and knew enough to know that the rank and file at CIA would probably blow the whistle on any scheme to recruit ex-Nazi Arabs as Mujahideen.
"Historians may debate whether, if Sullivan had not succeeded in his cover-up, Congress would have discovered that the Reagan administration had re-hired the Arab Nazi movement to fight their proxy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Neither Congress nor the CIA knew it at the time, but our tax dollars had given birth to Al Qaeda, the second generation of the Muslim Nazi movement. Only the intelligence services of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan knew who the players were. Vice President Bush’s compartmentalization kept everyone in American intelligence in the dark."
"The Congressional hearings were a joke, as Chairman Mazzoli limited them to one open session with no opportunity to present classified files. In order to avoid naming living Nazis, my testimony introduced three documents revealing how the Byelorussian Nazis had emigrated to America.
"Technically, I had established a very strong case that US intelligence had knowingly relocated known Nazi war criminals to America, and I had done it without naming a single living Nazi suspect. Mazzoli was visibly furious. The Chair could not block my testimony from being included in the record, as I had submitted it in writing in advance. Instead, they deleted all three documents from the Congressional hearing transcript “for reasons of space.”"
"I really did not know why anyone would bother blocking an investigation into Nazis. WWII and the Holocaust were long ago and far away. There was no remaining national security interest. After all, Kim Philby and his Cambridge Ring of Communist spies were at the heart of the Anglo-British recruitment of Nazi agents. They betrayed to Moscow every secret we had on the subject. No wonder the CIA files show a 98% capture rate for American agents sent behind the Iron Curtain. In my naïve way, I thought the whole story of Nazis as cold war spies was old news.
"But for some reason, people like Sullivan were working overtime to prevent my testifying before a secret session of Congress. They did not care about the Germans and their Eastern European Nazi collaborators. In hindsight, I think they were afraid I would tell Congress about the Arab Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood.
"Of course, I had seen all the Arab Nazi names in the classified files, but had no idea at the time I was testifying in 1985 that Vice President Bush had put the Arab Nazis back on our payroll, and that State and Justice were helping him hide the fact from Congress and the CIA. It never crossed my mind that anyone could be that stupid. Bush had briefly been CIA Director and knew enough to know that the rank and file at CIA would probably blow the whistle on any scheme to recruit ex-Nazi Arabs as Mujahideen.
"Historians may debate whether, if Sullivan had not succeeded in his cover-up, Congress would have discovered that the Reagan administration had re-hired the Arab Nazi movement to fight their proxy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Neither Congress nor the CIA knew it at the time, but our tax dollars had given birth to Al Qaeda, the second generation of the Muslim Nazi movement. Only the intelligence services of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan knew who the players were. Vice President Bush’s compartmentalization kept everyone in American intelligence in the dark."
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"The Congressional hearings were a joke, as Chairman Mazzoli limited them to one open session with no opportunity to present classified files. In order to avoid naming living Nazis, my testimony introduced three documents revealing how the Byelorussian Nazis had emigrated to America.
"Technically, I had established a very strong case that US intelligence had knowingly relocated known Nazi war criminals to America, and I had done it without naming a single living Nazi suspect. Mazzoli was visibly furious. The Chair could not block my testimony from being included in the record, as I had submitted it in writing in advance. Instead, they deleted all three documents from the Congressional hearing transcript “for reasons of space.”"
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"According to 1973 Thyssen corporate documents, Chase Bank secretly owns nearly a third of the Thyssen-Krupp corporation, the wealthiest conglomerate in Europe. Both Thyssen and Krupp were convicted Nazi war criminals who were quietly released by John McCloy, the American High Commissioner of Germany (HICOG). McCloy then became head of the Chase Bank. When I asked McCloy why he pardoned so many convicted Nazi war criminals, he claimed that he was pressured by the Vatican. McCloy, it should be recalled, also wrote the infamous wartime memo forbidding the bombing of Auschwitz."
"Perhaps the organization survived because the Muslim Brotherhood came under the immediate protection of Kim Philby, the Communist double agent inside British intelligence. Russian intelligence ordered all their new Arab Communist recruits to pretend to be fascists and join the Muslim Brotherhood. Neo-Nazi web sites reluctantly admit that even Hassan Al Banna’s right-hand man was a Communist plant."
"Islamic scholars declared Wahhabism as a heresy against Islam more than sixty times before the Saudis obtained their oil wealth. Now that the Saudis control the mortgages for a majority of the Sunni mosques in the United States and around the world, such criticism is muted."
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"According to Dan Benjamin, US intelligence had discovered voluminous correspondence between a member of the British royal family and the SS. The British intelligence officer sent to retrieve the dossier was rewarded by appointment as the Queen’s personal art advisor. He later confessed to having been a spy for the Russian intelligence service. He was, of course, never prosecuted, in order to protect the Queen."
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"Islamic scholars declared Wahhabism as a heresy against Islam more than sixty times before the Saudis obtained their oil wealth. Now that the Saudis control the mortgages for a majority of the Sunni mosques in the United States and around the world, such criticism is muted."
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"The Union Banking Corporation was seized as a Nazi front by the Alien Property Custodian during WWII, but was quietly returned to its owners in 1951. The overwhelming majority of the UBC stock was held by Roland Harriman, Averell’s brother. However, Prescott Bush and his father in law, Herbert Walker also held a few shares which apparently became the source of the Bush family fortune."
"Former Army intelligence officer William E. Gowen of New York City recently tracked down a retired Dutch Intelligence officer who told him how the scam operated. At the end of WWII, Prince Bernhardt sent a Dutch intelligence unit into the Russian zone of Berlin ostensibly to retrieve the crown jewels, which were buried in the vault of the bombed-out Thyssen Bank. In reality, Operation Wilhemina was merely a cover for retrieving several truckloads of corporate stock and ownership papers which were returned to the Netherlands. The Netherlands bank manager quickly recognized that his “neutral” bank was being compromised. He flew to New York City to inform his American counterpart, Prescott Bush, that both their banks were fronts for Nazi money. The bank manager’s body was discovered soon afterwards. The Dutch intelligence agent was his son."
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"The classified file room of the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Information Management Center contains records of their Harriman investigation. State had discovered that the Harrimans were illegally funneling gold bullion to the Bolsheviks. The investigation was inexplicably terminated. Coincidentally, a large part of the Czar’s art collection at the Hermitage disappeared. This may have been the origin of the fabulous Thyssen art collection in their museum in Spain. Art, after all, makes good collateral for bank loans."
"The classified file room of the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Information Management Center contains records of their Harriman investigation. State had discovered that the Harrimans were illegally funneling gold bullion to the Bolsheviks. The investigation was inexplicably terminated. Coincidentally, a large part of the Czar’s art collection at the Hermitage disappeared. This may have been the origin of the fabulous Thyssen art collection in their museum in Spain. Art, after all, makes good collateral for bank loans."
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"As discussed, newly declassified documents in the US National Archives make a compelling case that Harriman continued to deal with the Silesian Corporation even after the Nazi occupation of Poland. Contrary to his denials, Harriman’s secretary recorded that he continued to exercise his vote by proxy all through the war. These incredibly incriminating records will be publicly posted on the website for Ms. Ragge’s new documentary film, American Secrets."
"In fairness, the Robber Barons did not plan to use the Auschwitz site as a mass extermination center. That came later. But the same geographic and rail factors that lead to the selection of Auschwitz-Birkenau as an industrial site, also made it useful as the largest death factory for Jewish slave laborers."
"However, there is some concern that the film may never see the light of day. The IRS in 2010 suddenly seized Ms. Ragge’s bank accounts without even a pretext of notice. I have seen this sort of thing happen before. I once helped the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation do a documentary on Slovakian Nazis living openly in Canada. There was some superb film footage of the Pope blessing a new Slovakian Cathedral while the camera panned over the Nazi war criminals sitting in the audience. No one in Canada ever saw that film because the CBC caved in under the threat of endless litigation from Steven Roman, a Slovakian nationalist who happened to be the richest man in Canada (and Richard Nixon’s partner in a Canadian-American uranium mining business)."
From Preface:-
" ... One day I was stumbling around in the vault where the nuclear warfare secrets are stored when I came across a collection of Nazi records. It was just luck–whether good or bad, I am still not sure. I opened a sealed envelope of information on government confidential informants that I wasn’t supposed to see, that no one was supposed to see until the year 2015. There were war criminals in America, all right. The Nazis I had been assigned to prosecute had been brought in by the U.S. State Department. That wasn’t all I found.
"I always had an Eagle Scout’s view of America, and what I found in the vaults stunned me. Here were the secret records of the Holocaust. Beginning in September 1941, U.S. intelligence was receiving accurate weekly totals of the number of Jews being killed. The reports were corroborated by the Polish underground and British intelligence. There were even aerial photographs of the early extermination sites.
"Except for President Roosevelt, none of the allies wanted to do anything about the Jews while the war was going on. Stalin didn’t care how many boxcars Hitler was wasting on the Jews, as long as the trains weren’t carrying more troops and ammunition to the Eastern front. The British did not want a flood of Jewish refugees going to Palestine in the middle of the war and upsetting British-Arab oil relationships.
"President Roosevelt knew that his own Congress would not change the laws to let Jewish refugees into America. Congressional immigration quotas had already turned several boatloads of Jews back to Nazi Germany. It wasn’t just Congress. As late as 1941, the Gallup polls showed that a substantial minority of the American public was in favor of still stricter anti-Jewish legislation. The British put it bluntly: it wasn’t a question of Hitler’s unwillingness to let the Jews go, as much as it was Allied reluctance to take them in. If the Allies pressed Hitler too hard to let the Jews out of the concentration camps, he might do it. And then what would the Allies do?
"To salve their consciences about the Holocaust, the Allied leaders reluctantly agreed to Roosevelt’s proposal to hold a Nuremberg trial after the war, but in the meantime the Jews were declared expendable to the war effort. Instead of bombing the gas chambers, the Allied bombers flew over Auschwitz while the camp inmates watched in despair. Hundreds of thousands died because the Allies did nothing.
"Things did not improve much after the war. The Attorney General sent President Truman a top-secret memo explaining that Congress had refused to pass the Displaced Persons Act because “it would let too many Jews into America.” The Justice Department drafted a cleverly disguised anti-Jewish quota and convinced Truman to sign the new law because it represented “the largest number of Jews that Congress was willing to accept.” The State Department’s classified files were worse. They warned President Truman in writing that he must never allow the Jews to have their own country because it would be a “communist puppet state within three years”. I had never realized that there was official anti-Semitism in the government of the United States.
"The records that shocked me the most were the Belarus files. ..."
"As discussed, newly declassified documents in the US National Archives make a compelling case that Harriman continued to deal with the Silesian Corporation even after the Nazi occupation of Poland. Contrary to his denials, Harriman’s secretary recorded that he continued to exercise his vote by proxy all through the war. These incredibly incriminating records will be publicly posted on the website for Ms. Ragge’s new documentary film, American Secrets."
"In fairness, the Robber Barons did not plan to use the Auschwitz site as a mass extermination center. That came later. But the same geographic and rail factors that lead to the selection of Auschwitz-Birkenau as an industrial site, also made it useful as the largest death factory for Jewish slave laborers."
"However, there is some concern that the film may never see the light of day. The IRS in 2010 suddenly seized Ms. Ragge’s bank accounts without even a pretext of notice. I have seen this sort of thing happen before. I once helped the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation do a documentary on Slovakian Nazis living openly in Canada. There was some superb film footage of the Pope blessing a new Slovakian Cathedral while the camera panned over the Nazi war criminals sitting in the audience. No one in Canada ever saw that film because the CBC caved in under the threat of endless litigation from Steven Roman, a Slovakian nationalist who happened to be the richest man in Canada (and Richard Nixon’s partner in a Canadian-American uranium mining business)."
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From Preface:-
" ... One day I was stumbling around in the vault where the nuclear warfare secrets are stored when I came across a collection of Nazi records. It was just luck–whether good or bad, I am still not sure. I opened a sealed envelope of information on government confidential informants that I wasn’t supposed to see, that no one was supposed to see until the year 2015. There were war criminals in America, all right. The Nazis I had been assigned to prosecute had been brought in by the U.S. State Department. That wasn’t all I found.
"I always had an Eagle Scout’s view of America, and what I found in the vaults stunned me. Here were the secret records of the Holocaust. Beginning in September 1941, U.S. intelligence was receiving accurate weekly totals of the number of Jews being killed. The reports were corroborated by the Polish underground and British intelligence. There were even aerial photographs of the early extermination sites.
"Except for President Roosevelt, none of the allies wanted to do anything about the Jews while the war was going on. Stalin didn’t care how many boxcars Hitler was wasting on the Jews, as long as the trains weren’t carrying more troops and ammunition to the Eastern front. The British did not want a flood of Jewish refugees going to Palestine in the middle of the war and upsetting British-Arab oil relationships.
"President Roosevelt knew that his own Congress would not change the laws to let Jewish refugees into America. Congressional immigration quotas had already turned several boatloads of Jews back to Nazi Germany. It wasn’t just Congress. As late as 1941, the Gallup polls showed that a substantial minority of the American public was in favor of still stricter anti-Jewish legislation. The British put it bluntly: it wasn’t a question of Hitler’s unwillingness to let the Jews go, as much as it was Allied reluctance to take them in. If the Allies pressed Hitler too hard to let the Jews out of the concentration camps, he might do it. And then what would the Allies do?
"To salve their consciences about the Holocaust, the Allied leaders reluctantly agreed to Roosevelt’s proposal to hold a Nuremberg trial after the war, but in the meantime the Jews were declared expendable to the war effort. Instead of bombing the gas chambers, the Allied bombers flew over Auschwitz while the camp inmates watched in despair. Hundreds of thousands died because the Allies did nothing.
"Things did not improve much after the war. The Attorney General sent President Truman a top-secret memo explaining that Congress had refused to pass the Displaced Persons Act because “it would let too many Jews into America.” The Justice Department drafted a cleverly disguised anti-Jewish quota and convinced Truman to sign the new law because it represented “the largest number of Jews that Congress was willing to accept.” The State Department’s classified files were worse. They warned President Truman in writing that he must never allow the Jews to have their own country because it would be a “communist puppet state within three years”. I had never realized that there was official anti-Semitism in the government of the United States.
"The records that shocked me the most were the Belarus files. ..."
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"Stanislaw Stankievich was an educated man, a Doctor of Humanities. As a reward for assisting the Nazis with the invasion of White Russia, Stankievich was appointed to several government posts. His first task was to take his police force of local White Russian volunteers and, without any help from the Germans, massacre all 8,000 Jews in a certain town on a single day. Stankievich had his policemen order the Jews to lie on top of each other in the graves, head to toe. That way, Stankievich could cram more bodies in and his troops could save ammunition by shooting through two layers of people at once. It was a simple system and it was copied all over the Belarus region. The massacres nauseated the Germans because the methods were considered clumsy. There were complaints back to Berlin about wounded Jews crawling out of graves alive.
"The worst part of the Belarus atrocities was not discovered until post-war autopsies were conducted. The Red Cross could find no trace of wounds upon the smaller children. Apparently to save the price of a bullet, Stankievich had ordered that the babies should be buried alive. Eichmann’s diary noted that he was revolted by the brutal method of killing in the Belarus region and ordered experiments with poison gas as a more “humane” alternative. It is hard to conceive Auschwitz as a kinder alternative to the Belarus slaughter.
"Stankievich and the other White Russian collaborators were greatly rewarded for their efforts by the handful of German occupiers. The leaders of Belarus became the Mayors, Governors, and Cabinet Members of the Nazi puppet government in White Russia. The Germans even allowed the policemen who carried out the massacres the rare “honor” of having their own SS Division, named the Belarus SS. After wiping out over half a million Jews in White Russia, the Belarus Division fought against the Allies in Monte Casino and killed American troops in France. At the end of the war, Stankievich and the other members of Belarus simply disappeared. But their crimes were not forgotten.
"A German soldier told the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal what Stankievich had done. His crimes were so hideous that Stankievich is the only non-German whose atrocities were described in full in the U.S. Congressional Record. Stankievich was even denounced by name in the United Nations. The Soviet Delegate to the UN accused the Western Allies of hiding Stankievich and thousands of other war criminals in the Displaced Persons Camps of West Germany after the war. The State Department told the UN that the charges were mere propaganda. President Truman, Congress, and even General Eisenhower had issued the strictest orders that war criminals should be prosecuted wherever they were found. No American officials were protecting war criminals, they said.
"I found out that the State Department was lying. They had put Stankievich in charge of a refugee camp in the American Zone of Germany. Not only was Stankievich on the U.S. payroll, he was helping the State Department hand out U.S. immigration visas to his friends in Belarus. The U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence Corps arrested Stankievich and threw him in prison. He promptly confessed in writing to everything he had done for the Nazis. He had nothing to fear. A few hours later, a State Department official arrived to order Stankievich’s release. The Army was told that Stankievich was an important anti-communist organizer working for the British Secret Service.
"The Army Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC) secretly burglarized the State Department offices in Stuttgart. They found out that the State Department had set up its own spy service, the “Office of Policy Coordination,” to recruit ex-Nazis for the Cold War. After all, Eastern European collaborators like Stankievich had the most recent experience in fighting the Russians. The genius who thought up the whole program of recruiting fugitive war criminals for an underground guerilla network was a British intelligence officer named Kim Philby. Kim Philby had been recruiting ex-Nazis as British Intelligence agents from the moment the war ended, and was secretly sharing his networks with the State Department."
"A few State Department officials, notably Allen Dulles and Frank Wisner, fell for Philby’s story, hook, line and sinker. Eastern European Nazis could be hired for an underground army behind Russian lines in the event of World War III. These men weren’t really Nazis, Philby assured them. They only fought with the Germans because they hated the Russians more. Men like Stankievich were really anti-communist freedom fighters. The CIA never fell for Philby’s story, but a lot of people inside State Department intelligence did.
"Behind the back of the U.S. Government, these mutinous American bureaucrats were helping Philby smuggle Nazis into America, to be trained for Cold War espionage. Philby’s Nazis were shipped to Canada, Australia, and South America as well, posing as anti-communist freedom fighters. There was only one little problem: Kim Philby was a communist double agent. Throughout World War II, the Soviets had infiltrated their own spies into every group of Eastern European Nazis. After the war was over, Moscow ordered Philby to recycle the same communist agents, posing as ex-Nazi “freedom fighters,” into every Western country that was gullible enough to take them in.
"As a result, the Cold War was a disaster. Philby’s Nazis had a pipeline into Russia all right, but the pipeline leaked in both directions. Every U.S. intelligence network was betrayed. By the time Philby showed up at a press conference in Moscow, the West had lost virtually its entire espionage apparatus behind the Iron Curtain. Philby’s eastern European Nazi networks had been thoroughly riddled with communist intelligence agents who had posed as Nazis during WWII. These double agents were a significant asset to Russian intelligence during wartime, and it was Philby who convinced the Dulles brothers to hire the same mole-ridden networks during the cold war. His success is best measured by the CIA’s casualty rate in sending agents behind the Iron Curtain: 98% fatality
"The extent of the tragedy was censored out of this book at the time it was first published. During the Eisenhower administration, the embarrassed bureaucrats buried the files in the vaults. OPC’s agents cost the lives of tens of thousands of innocent Eastern Europeans who wanted to join America in the fight for freedom. They sacrificed their lives as part of the effort to hide the Robber Baron’s financial collaboration with the Nazis under a shroud of national security. Not even the CIA knew what Dulles and Wisner had really done.
"The cover-up was the only thing they did well, but Dulles and Wisner had a lot of help. Nelson Rockefeller and Vice President Nixon had supervised these private covert operations so that President Eisenhower could claim “plausible deniability.” I had stumbled across the records of major British and American corporations that had made a profit on both sides of World War II, and had helped Dulles and Wisner launder federal money through private foundations to ex-Nazi “Freedom Fighters” during the Cold War. The names of the Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller foundations as money launderers for OPC were also censored from the original manuscript. Even the Vatican had been pressured into playing along with the anti-communist crusade by smuggling Nazis out of Italy for Allied intelligence purposes. In return, the Vatican was paid off with secret ownership of Italian insurance companies whose Jewish investors were no longer around to claim the assets."
"Stanislaw Stankievich was an educated man, a Doctor of Humanities. As a reward for assisting the Nazis with the invasion of White Russia, Stankievich was appointed to several government posts. His first task was to take his police force of local White Russian volunteers and, without any help from the Germans, massacre all 8,000 Jews in a certain town on a single day. Stankievich had his policemen order the Jews to lie on top of each other in the graves, head to toe. That way, Stankievich could cram more bodies in and his troops could save ammunition by shooting through two layers of people at once. It was a simple system and it was copied all over the Belarus region. The massacres nauseated the Germans because the methods were considered clumsy. There were complaints back to Berlin about wounded Jews crawling out of graves alive.
"The worst part of the Belarus atrocities was not discovered until post-war autopsies were conducted. The Red Cross could find no trace of wounds upon the smaller children. Apparently to save the price of a bullet, Stankievich had ordered that the babies should be buried alive. Eichmann’s diary noted that he was revolted by the brutal method of killing in the Belarus region and ordered experiments with poison gas as a more “humane” alternative. It is hard to conceive Auschwitz as a kinder alternative to the Belarus slaughter.
"Stankievich and the other White Russian collaborators were greatly rewarded for their efforts by the handful of German occupiers. The leaders of Belarus became the Mayors, Governors, and Cabinet Members of the Nazi puppet government in White Russia. The Germans even allowed the policemen who carried out the massacres the rare “honor” of having their own SS Division, named the Belarus SS. After wiping out over half a million Jews in White Russia, the Belarus Division fought against the Allies in Monte Casino and killed American troops in France. At the end of the war, Stankievich and the other members of Belarus simply disappeared. But their crimes were not forgotten.
"A German soldier told the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal what Stankievich had done. His crimes were so hideous that Stankievich is the only non-German whose atrocities were described in full in the U.S. Congressional Record. Stankievich was even denounced by name in the United Nations. The Soviet Delegate to the UN accused the Western Allies of hiding Stankievich and thousands of other war criminals in the Displaced Persons Camps of West Germany after the war. The State Department told the UN that the charges were mere propaganda. President Truman, Congress, and even General Eisenhower had issued the strictest orders that war criminals should be prosecuted wherever they were found. No American officials were protecting war criminals, they said.
"I found out that the State Department was lying. They had put Stankievich in charge of a refugee camp in the American Zone of Germany. Not only was Stankievich on the U.S. payroll, he was helping the State Department hand out U.S. immigration visas to his friends in Belarus. The U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence Corps arrested Stankievich and threw him in prison. He promptly confessed in writing to everything he had done for the Nazis. He had nothing to fear. A few hours later, a State Department official arrived to order Stankievich’s release. The Army was told that Stankievich was an important anti-communist organizer working for the British Secret Service.
"The Army Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC) secretly burglarized the State Department offices in Stuttgart. They found out that the State Department had set up its own spy service, the “Office of Policy Coordination,” to recruit ex-Nazis for the Cold War. After all, Eastern European collaborators like Stankievich had the most recent experience in fighting the Russians. The genius who thought up the whole program of recruiting fugitive war criminals for an underground guerilla network was a British intelligence officer named Kim Philby. Kim Philby had been recruiting ex-Nazis as British Intelligence agents from the moment the war ended, and was secretly sharing his networks with the State Department."
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"A few State Department officials, notably Allen Dulles and Frank Wisner, fell for Philby’s story, hook, line and sinker. Eastern European Nazis could be hired for an underground army behind Russian lines in the event of World War III. These men weren’t really Nazis, Philby assured them. They only fought with the Germans because they hated the Russians more. Men like Stankievich were really anti-communist freedom fighters. The CIA never fell for Philby’s story, but a lot of people inside State Department intelligence did.
"Behind the back of the U.S. Government, these mutinous American bureaucrats were helping Philby smuggle Nazis into America, to be trained for Cold War espionage. Philby’s Nazis were shipped to Canada, Australia, and South America as well, posing as anti-communist freedom fighters. There was only one little problem: Kim Philby was a communist double agent. Throughout World War II, the Soviets had infiltrated their own spies into every group of Eastern European Nazis. After the war was over, Moscow ordered Philby to recycle the same communist agents, posing as ex-Nazi “freedom fighters,” into every Western country that was gullible enough to take them in.
"As a result, the Cold War was a disaster. Philby’s Nazis had a pipeline into Russia all right, but the pipeline leaked in both directions. Every U.S. intelligence network was betrayed. By the time Philby showed up at a press conference in Moscow, the West had lost virtually its entire espionage apparatus behind the Iron Curtain. Philby’s eastern European Nazi networks had been thoroughly riddled with communist intelligence agents who had posed as Nazis during WWII. These double agents were a significant asset to Russian intelligence during wartime, and it was Philby who convinced the Dulles brothers to hire the same mole-ridden networks during the cold war. His success is best measured by the CIA’s casualty rate in sending agents behind the Iron Curtain: 98% fatality
"The extent of the tragedy was censored out of this book at the time it was first published. During the Eisenhower administration, the embarrassed bureaucrats buried the files in the vaults. OPC’s agents cost the lives of tens of thousands of innocent Eastern Europeans who wanted to join America in the fight for freedom. They sacrificed their lives as part of the effort to hide the Robber Baron’s financial collaboration with the Nazis under a shroud of national security. Not even the CIA knew what Dulles and Wisner had really done.
"The cover-up was the only thing they did well, but Dulles and Wisner had a lot of help. Nelson Rockefeller and Vice President Nixon had supervised these private covert operations so that President Eisenhower could claim “plausible deniability.” I had stumbled across the records of major British and American corporations that had made a profit on both sides of World War II, and had helped Dulles and Wisner launder federal money through private foundations to ex-Nazi “Freedom Fighters” during the Cold War. The names of the Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller foundations as money launderers for OPC were also censored from the original manuscript. Even the Vatican had been pressured into playing along with the anti-communist crusade by smuggling Nazis out of Italy for Allied intelligence purposes. In return, the Vatican was paid off with secret ownership of Italian insurance companies whose Jewish investors were no longer around to claim the assets."
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"It seems sometimes that the battles never end. After 9/11 I was asked to help expose an Arab terrorist leader posing as a peaceable Florida Professor. But the FBI had attempted to recruit Dr. Sami Al Arian as an informant, so one section of the Justice Department had placed him off limits. I donated money to Al Arian’s charity and then sued him to find out whether my money was being used to aid the poor or terrorists. My civil complaint, which had been cleared in advance by the CIA, revealed all the classified files on Professor Al Arian. An embarrassed Justice Department was forced to indict him, but allowed novice attorneys to botch the prosecution. Al Arian was allowed to make a deal. Nothing surprises me anymore."
"A group of retired spies helped me form an educational organization called the Intelligence Summit. We sponsored conferences where, inter alia, State Department’s protection of the murderous Muslim Brotherhood was exposed. Worse, we revealed Saddam Hussein’s abandoned intelligence archives proving that he had every intention of reviving his weapons of mass production, and temporarily hidden his WMD equipment across the border in Deir as Zour, Syria. Both the press and Bush administration had the WMD story wrong. The Israelis got it right. They bombed Saddam’s Syrian stockpile along with the nearby nuclear facility."
"It seems sometimes that the battles never end. After 9/11 I was asked to help expose an Arab terrorist leader posing as a peaceable Florida Professor. But the FBI had attempted to recruit Dr. Sami Al Arian as an informant, so one section of the Justice Department had placed him off limits. I donated money to Al Arian’s charity and then sued him to find out whether my money was being used to aid the poor or terrorists. My civil complaint, which had been cleared in advance by the CIA, revealed all the classified files on Professor Al Arian. An embarrassed Justice Department was forced to indict him, but allowed novice attorneys to botch the prosecution. Al Arian was allowed to make a deal. Nothing surprises me anymore."
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"A group of retired spies helped me form an educational organization called the Intelligence Summit. We sponsored conferences where, inter alia, State Department’s protection of the murderous Muslim Brotherhood was exposed. Worse, we revealed Saddam Hussein’s abandoned intelligence archives proving that he had every intention of reviving his weapons of mass production, and temporarily hidden his WMD equipment across the border in Deir as Zour, Syria. Both the press and Bush administration had the WMD story wrong. The Israelis got it right. They bombed Saddam’s Syrian stockpile along with the nearby nuclear facility."
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"Kennan’s Policy and Planning Staff had already convinced the State Department to fund a series of innocuous-sounding cover organizations in New York,[ such as the American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism or AMCOMLIB. A red cardboard flag with AMCOMLIB’s address was all any of the Nazis needed to obtain an illegal visit to America. AMCOMLIB, later known as Radio Liberty, was funded by the innocent sounding Crusade for Freedom, for whom young Ronald Reagan was the pitchman in fundraising commercials. Reagan well knew that 99% of AMCOMLIB’s funding came not from his fundraising commercials but from CIA’s unvouchered funds. This information was censored from the original manuscript of this book.]"
"Wisner’s immediate strategy was to locate enough Nazi intelligence officers to train the nucleus of the private armies that were to fight in the expected guerrilla war behind the Iron Curtain. Gehlen was to identify those to be recruited, and General Clay would provide cover for the training activities at the European Command Intelligence School near Oberammergau in Bavaria, or at OPC’s “Air Force” units near Wiesbaden. Money for the project would be drawn from untraceable government accounts, such as those of the CIA, and laundered through American corporations whose leaders had expressed willingness to work with Wisner and OPC.
"Gehlen suggested that Wisner hire Dr. Franz Six to head the recruitment and training of the Special Forces. Dr. Six knew most of the leading Byelorussians, he explained, having recruited them for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia. Six, however, was at that moment on trial at Nuremberg for his war crimes. Wisner asked General Clay to intercede with the Nuremberg prosecutor and judges. Whether Clay took such action is unknown, but Six received only a twenty-year prison term, while the rest of the Einsatzgruppen commanders were sentenced to death. In 1950, Clay’s successor, High Commissioner John J. McCloy, commuted the sentence to time served, and Six went to work for Gehlen on the Special Forces project.
"Wisner and Gehlen found the DP camps fertile ground for recruits. Hundreds of thousands of young refugees – Byelorussians, Poles, Balts, Ukrainians, and anti-Stalinist Russians – lacked work or prospects of emigration. The only jobs they could find were as ill-paid farm workers or as laborers clearing bomb rubble. The “secret army” provided good pay and living conditions, and within a few months recruits were assembled at various camps. American and former Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS instructors provided training in hand-to-hand combat, wireless operation, parachuting, small arms, demolition, signals, and all the other “trade craft” of the spy.
"In the early 1950s, several of these agents were parachuted into various regions of the Soviet Union from planes supplied by Wisner. They had excellently forged documents and carried miniature radio transmitters, as well as a few thousand rubles and small bags of gold coins with which to buy favors from peasants whom they might have to ask for food and shelter. Some of these agents were to attempt to make contact with the agents Gehlen had left behind in Russia after the German retreat; others were to take jobs in Soviet industry and report back on what they found. A few were successful and provided information for a brief time, but most were quickly captured and executed. Some were “turned” by the Soviets and transmitted false information to Gehlen until the Russians decided to make a show of them at well-publicized press conferences."
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"Kennan’s Policy and Planning Staff had already convinced the State Department to fund a series of innocuous-sounding cover organizations in New York,[ such as the American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism or AMCOMLIB. A red cardboard flag with AMCOMLIB’s address was all any of the Nazis needed to obtain an illegal visit to America. AMCOMLIB, later known as Radio Liberty, was funded by the innocent sounding Crusade for Freedom, for whom young Ronald Reagan was the pitchman in fundraising commercials. Reagan well knew that 99% of AMCOMLIB’s funding came not from his fundraising commercials but from CIA’s unvouchered funds. This information was censored from the original manuscript of this book.]"
"Wisner’s immediate strategy was to locate enough Nazi intelligence officers to train the nucleus of the private armies that were to fight in the expected guerrilla war behind the Iron Curtain. Gehlen was to identify those to be recruited, and General Clay would provide cover for the training activities at the European Command Intelligence School near Oberammergau in Bavaria, or at OPC’s “Air Force” units near Wiesbaden. Money for the project would be drawn from untraceable government accounts, such as those of the CIA, and laundered through American corporations whose leaders had expressed willingness to work with Wisner and OPC.
"Gehlen suggested that Wisner hire Dr. Franz Six to head the recruitment and training of the Special Forces. Dr. Six knew most of the leading Byelorussians, he explained, having recruited them for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia. Six, however, was at that moment on trial at Nuremberg for his war crimes. Wisner asked General Clay to intercede with the Nuremberg prosecutor and judges. Whether Clay took such action is unknown, but Six received only a twenty-year prison term, while the rest of the Einsatzgruppen commanders were sentenced to death. In 1950, Clay’s successor, High Commissioner John J. McCloy, commuted the sentence to time served, and Six went to work for Gehlen on the Special Forces project.
"Wisner and Gehlen found the DP camps fertile ground for recruits. Hundreds of thousands of young refugees – Byelorussians, Poles, Balts, Ukrainians, and anti-Stalinist Russians – lacked work or prospects of emigration. The only jobs they could find were as ill-paid farm workers or as laborers clearing bomb rubble. The “secret army” provided good pay and living conditions, and within a few months recruits were assembled at various camps. American and former Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS instructors provided training in hand-to-hand combat, wireless operation, parachuting, small arms, demolition, signals, and all the other “trade craft” of the spy.
"In the early 1950s, several of these agents were parachuted into various regions of the Soviet Union from planes supplied by Wisner. They had excellently forged documents and carried miniature radio transmitters, as well as a few thousand rubles and small bags of gold coins with which to buy favors from peasants whom they might have to ask for food and shelter. Some of these agents were to attempt to make contact with the agents Gehlen had left behind in Russia after the German retreat; others were to take jobs in Soviet industry and report back on what they found. A few were successful and provided information for a brief time, but most were quickly captured and executed. Some were “turned” by the Soviets and transmitted false information to Gehlen until the Russians decided to make a show of them at well-publicized press conferences."
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"The other intelligence agencies were not oblivious to the preparations taking place in Germany, although Wisner did his best to keep the CIC and the CIA away from his operation.102 His cover was that he was planning to train psychological-warfare operators and secret agents who would help downed American fliers escape from behind the Iron Curtain in case of war. Most of the American agencies were content to believe that this was all Wisner intended with his rather small operations in West Germany. The MVD was not fooled, however.
"Soviet intelligence had penetrated every corner of the Byelorussian network and had even entered into active competition with Gehlen and Wisner for recruits in the DP camps. Anticipating that the western Allies would sooner or later try to establish an anti-Soviet underground movement, the Russians engaged in a preemptive strike. The right wing exile groups – Byelorussian BCC, Ukrainian OUN, and Russian NTS – were all riddled with Soviet agents. From almost the beginning, as we have seen, Ostrowsky had repeatedly charged that many of Abramtchik’s associates were former Communists and his group had been honeycombed with Soviet informers. Wisner went to the best source for comment on these charges – Kim Philby, who had been head of anti-Soviet operations for the British secret service at the time the British recruited Abramtchik and his followers. Philby, then in Washington as liaison between the British and the CIA and FBI, assured Wisner that Ostrowsky’s warnings were merely the sour grapes of a disaffected politician.
"In later years, however, Ostrowsky’s warning of Communist penetration of the Abramtchik faction received independent corroboration. CIC records show that several Soviet moles were unearthed who furnished derogatory information about the group. Other intelligence agencies learned that one of Abramtchik’s deputies had been trained as an intelligence officer by the Soviets. (He later emigrated to the United States.) Military intelligence identified several Byelorussians as part of a network that passed sensitive information to east-bloc intelligence services. (Another of these alleged Communist agents subsequently worked in America.) [Soviet Intelligence had found a shortcut for smuggling their agents to America … their spies just “confessed” that they were former Nazis willing to fight communism.]"
"Stanislaw Stankievich was pressured by Soviet intelligence to work for them, but he reported the recruiter to the CIC. She was Nina Litwinczyk, the typist at Gestapo headquarters in Minsk during the German occupation who had supplied the Soviets with the names of Nazi collaborators. Since 1945 she had been blackmailing these fugitives in an effort to turn them into Russian agents.103 Years later, the FBI received three separate reports concerning a Communist agent living in the United States. The three reports emanated from a group of collaborationists who had been captured by Russian partisans during the war. One of the prisoners confessed to the pro-Russian partisans that he was a secret communist agent who had infiltrated the Nazi networks. The other two bona fide Nazi collaborators managed to escape from the partisans and, following the war, eventually made their way to the United States, only to find that the self-confessed communist spy had preceded them.104 The FBI filed the reports without action because the Communist/Nazi agent had been checked by OPC. OPC, of course, assumed that British Intelligence had done the background checks.
"Time after time, American intelligence officials ignored their own informants or were persuaded by Kim Philby that the charges about Communist agents among the Byelorussians were merely mudslinging by the out-of-favor Ostrowsky faction. Philby’s biggest coup was to unload the Communist-infiltrated Abramtchik organization on the all-too-eager Wisner. Pleading a lack of funding from Britain’s impecunious postwar government, he allowed Wisner to take over the group, emphasizing the extensive espionage network that Abramtchik was supposedly developing in Poland. Philby also threw in the entire NTS network to serve as the foundation for a Pan-Slavic anticommunist bloc in exchange for access to the intelligence produced. Delighted by Philby’s willingness to cooperate with the OPC, Wisner accepted the offer.
"As chief of the Soviet section of British intelligence, Philby could claim his successes – in which he was assisted by his Soviet masters – and was considered a preeminent authority on anti-Soviet espionage. Wisner apparently believed that Philby’s endorsement provided the “Special Forces” concept with a cachet that might have taken him years to acquire on his own. The sardonic Philby must have smiled to himself as he turned over the hollow shells of his Eastern European intelligence operations to Wisner. In his memoirs, published after he escaped to the Soviet Union, Philby dismissed Wisner as “a young man for so responsible a job, balding and running self-importantly to fat.”"
"The other intelligence agencies were not oblivious to the preparations taking place in Germany, although Wisner did his best to keep the CIC and the CIA away from his operation.102 His cover was that he was planning to train psychological-warfare operators and secret agents who would help downed American fliers escape from behind the Iron Curtain in case of war. Most of the American agencies were content to believe that this was all Wisner intended with his rather small operations in West Germany. The MVD was not fooled, however.
"Soviet intelligence had penetrated every corner of the Byelorussian network and had even entered into active competition with Gehlen and Wisner for recruits in the DP camps. Anticipating that the western Allies would sooner or later try to establish an anti-Soviet underground movement, the Russians engaged in a preemptive strike. The right wing exile groups – Byelorussian BCC, Ukrainian OUN, and Russian NTS – were all riddled with Soviet agents. From almost the beginning, as we have seen, Ostrowsky had repeatedly charged that many of Abramtchik’s associates were former Communists and his group had been honeycombed with Soviet informers. Wisner went to the best source for comment on these charges – Kim Philby, who had been head of anti-Soviet operations for the British secret service at the time the British recruited Abramtchik and his followers. Philby, then in Washington as liaison between the British and the CIA and FBI, assured Wisner that Ostrowsky’s warnings were merely the sour grapes of a disaffected politician.
"In later years, however, Ostrowsky’s warning of Communist penetration of the Abramtchik faction received independent corroboration. CIC records show that several Soviet moles were unearthed who furnished derogatory information about the group. Other intelligence agencies learned that one of Abramtchik’s deputies had been trained as an intelligence officer by the Soviets. (He later emigrated to the United States.) Military intelligence identified several Byelorussians as part of a network that passed sensitive information to east-bloc intelligence services. (Another of these alleged Communist agents subsequently worked in America.) [Soviet Intelligence had found a shortcut for smuggling their agents to America … their spies just “confessed” that they were former Nazis willing to fight communism.]"
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"Stanislaw Stankievich was pressured by Soviet intelligence to work for them, but he reported the recruiter to the CIC. She was Nina Litwinczyk, the typist at Gestapo headquarters in Minsk during the German occupation who had supplied the Soviets with the names of Nazi collaborators. Since 1945 she had been blackmailing these fugitives in an effort to turn them into Russian agents.103 Years later, the FBI received three separate reports concerning a Communist agent living in the United States. The three reports emanated from a group of collaborationists who had been captured by Russian partisans during the war. One of the prisoners confessed to the pro-Russian partisans that he was a secret communist agent who had infiltrated the Nazi networks. The other two bona fide Nazi collaborators managed to escape from the partisans and, following the war, eventually made their way to the United States, only to find that the self-confessed communist spy had preceded them.104 The FBI filed the reports without action because the Communist/Nazi agent had been checked by OPC. OPC, of course, assumed that British Intelligence had done the background checks.
"Time after time, American intelligence officials ignored their own informants or were persuaded by Kim Philby that the charges about Communist agents among the Byelorussians were merely mudslinging by the out-of-favor Ostrowsky faction. Philby’s biggest coup was to unload the Communist-infiltrated Abramtchik organization on the all-too-eager Wisner. Pleading a lack of funding from Britain’s impecunious postwar government, he allowed Wisner to take over the group, emphasizing the extensive espionage network that Abramtchik was supposedly developing in Poland. Philby also threw in the entire NTS network to serve as the foundation for a Pan-Slavic anticommunist bloc in exchange for access to the intelligence produced. Delighted by Philby’s willingness to cooperate with the OPC, Wisner accepted the offer.
"As chief of the Soviet section of British intelligence, Philby could claim his successes – in which he was assisted by his Soviet masters – and was considered a preeminent authority on anti-Soviet espionage. Wisner apparently believed that Philby’s endorsement provided the “Special Forces” concept with a cachet that might have taken him years to acquire on his own. The sardonic Philby must have smiled to himself as he turned over the hollow shells of his Eastern European intelligence operations to Wisner. In his memoirs, published after he escaped to the Soviet Union, Philby dismissed Wisner as “a young man for so responsible a job, balding and running self-importantly to fat.”"
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"Wisner wanted to train his Nazi protégés in the United States out of sight of both Soviet spies and other Allied intelligence agencies. Plans were made to bring recruits to Fort Bragg, North Carolina for parachute instruction, and a secret base was established near Williamsburg, Virginia where they could be trained in guerrilla warfare without even knowing they were in the United States. In order for this to happen, however, Wisner had to evade a ban imposed by President Truman on admitting ex-Nazis to this country without alerting the Immigration Service.
"Precedent existed for such sleight of hand. Following the end of the war, the Pentagon had become alarmed at the extent of the Soviet roundup of German rocket and atomic scientists. To make such recruitment easier, the Russians had classified virtually every significant German physicist as a “war criminal” subject to immediate arrest. [Some scientists, such as Arthur Rudolph, were in fact war criminals who used Jewish slave laborers as if they were disposable chemicals at his underground Dora facility for V-2 rockets. Years later, Rudolph admitted his crimes to OSI, and accepted voluntary deportation back to Germany.]
"The Pentagon asked Truman for permission to “deny” these scientists to the Russians by smuggling them into the United States. The White House was concerned that the United States might be accused of breaching international agreements against sheltering war criminals, and issued an order forbidding admission into the country of any scientist who had voluntarily aided the Nazis. The scientists brought over in Operation Paperclip, therefore, were to be classified as prisoners of war so as not to violate immigration laws. Top Secret White House documents recently discovered among State Department archives conclusively establish that Truman was under the impression that no American agency had ever brought any Nazi “quislings, traitors, or war criminals” into the country."
"Assistance in earmarking which German scientists to recruit was offered by Donald Maclean, the First Secretary of the British embassy in Washington and liaison for atomic secrets.107 Maclean was also a Soviet mole. Among the Top Secret documents in the Operation Paperclip files is a letter from him advising the Pentagon that certain German scientists were not important enough for recruitment. Later it was determined that several of these men were physicists of international reputation. And the Pentagon soon began to notice that with unsettling regularity many of the scientists whom it wanted to bring to the United States were disappearing, apparently kidnapped by the Russians."
"Wisner wanted to train his Nazi protégés in the United States out of sight of both Soviet spies and other Allied intelligence agencies. Plans were made to bring recruits to Fort Bragg, North Carolina for parachute instruction, and a secret base was established near Williamsburg, Virginia where they could be trained in guerrilla warfare without even knowing they were in the United States. In order for this to happen, however, Wisner had to evade a ban imposed by President Truman on admitting ex-Nazis to this country without alerting the Immigration Service.
"Precedent existed for such sleight of hand. Following the end of the war, the Pentagon had become alarmed at the extent of the Soviet roundup of German rocket and atomic scientists. To make such recruitment easier, the Russians had classified virtually every significant German physicist as a “war criminal” subject to immediate arrest. [Some scientists, such as Arthur Rudolph, were in fact war criminals who used Jewish slave laborers as if they were disposable chemicals at his underground Dora facility for V-2 rockets. Years later, Rudolph admitted his crimes to OSI, and accepted voluntary deportation back to Germany.]
"The Pentagon asked Truman for permission to “deny” these scientists to the Russians by smuggling them into the United States. The White House was concerned that the United States might be accused of breaching international agreements against sheltering war criminals, and issued an order forbidding admission into the country of any scientist who had voluntarily aided the Nazis. The scientists brought over in Operation Paperclip, therefore, were to be classified as prisoners of war so as not to violate immigration laws. Top Secret White House documents recently discovered among State Department archives conclusively establish that Truman was under the impression that no American agency had ever brought any Nazi “quislings, traitors, or war criminals” into the country."
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"Assistance in earmarking which German scientists to recruit was offered by Donald Maclean, the First Secretary of the British embassy in Washington and liaison for atomic secrets.107 Maclean was also a Soviet mole. Among the Top Secret documents in the Operation Paperclip files is a letter from him advising the Pentagon that certain German scientists were not important enough for recruitment. Later it was determined that several of these men were physicists of international reputation. And the Pentagon soon began to notice that with unsettling regularity many of the scientists whom it wanted to bring to the United States were disappearing, apparently kidnapped by the Russians."
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"The Pentagon had other worries. The CIC, which had been assigned to scrutinize the candidates for entry into the United States to ferret out Nazis, was coming dangerously close to discovering that several Paperclip candidates were war criminals who had participated in experiments on human beings or had employed slave labor under inhuman conditions. [Indeed, I discovered in the Top Secret vaults written orders from President Truman banning the immigration of any German Scientist who was either a) an early member of the Nazi party b) an SS volunteer or c) wanted by the Allied for war crimes. The State Department, convinced that President Dewey would soon take office, simply lied to the President, sanitized the scientists’ files, and brought them to America anyway.]
"The Pentagon had apparently decided, without informing the President, that the interests of national security in using these scientists far out-weighed any notion of prosecuting them for war crimes. The names of several scientists were deleted from the Army’s war crimes suspects list, and the CIC was directed to accelerate background clearances for them. The war crimes investigations were closed, and a “no derogatory information” report was issued. The scientists were simply listed as cargo on an aircraft weigh bill and flown to the United States. Several years later they would be paraded across the Mexican border and back again so as to create a “legal” entry for immigration.108 It was almost an article of faith that any deception was permissible to protect valuable scientists such as Wernher von Braun from Soviet apprehension.
"There were, however, several incidents that graphically illustrated the haphazard nature of postwar security checks for German scientists. According to one CIA agent, Klaus Fuchs was given clearance to work on the atomic bomb project despite the fact that the agency possessed a classified SS report identifying him as a Communist spy. The document was discovered only after Fuchs had sent much important information off to Moscow. (I have since found this document in the National Archives.) The net result of OPC’s recruitment of Nazi scientists was that the Russians obtained all the secrets of the US Atom Bomb research."
"Incriminating information was removed from the files and false identities were created as necessary. And so, while other government agencies were actively engaged in pursuing Nazi war criminals, the State Department was importing their Nazi leaders to the safety of the United States.
"It was not a large operation at first. A few dozen obscure politicians from countries under Soviet occupation were brought to New York and put to work in “private” organizations dedicated to opposing communism.* Outside of a handful of State Department officials, few even knew of their Nazi collaboration, fewer still realized their connection to Nazi intelligence operations. Between 1948 and 1950, while the CIA was still being organized, the State Department systematically imported and recruited the leaders of nearly all the puppet regimes established by the Third Reich from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Hilger’s dream was coming true.
"George Kennan, who designed the administrative structure of OPC for the State Department, was also instrumental in forming the National Committee for a Free Europe. However, there is no conclusive evidence that he knew that Joyce and Wisner were staffing these committees with former Nazi collaborators.[ Such ignorance does seem implausible, given Kennan’s rank and position.]"
"The Pentagon had other worries. The CIC, which had been assigned to scrutinize the candidates for entry into the United States to ferret out Nazis, was coming dangerously close to discovering that several Paperclip candidates were war criminals who had participated in experiments on human beings or had employed slave labor under inhuman conditions. [Indeed, I discovered in the Top Secret vaults written orders from President Truman banning the immigration of any German Scientist who was either a) an early member of the Nazi party b) an SS volunteer or c) wanted by the Allied for war crimes. The State Department, convinced that President Dewey would soon take office, simply lied to the President, sanitized the scientists’ files, and brought them to America anyway.]
"The Pentagon had apparently decided, without informing the President, that the interests of national security in using these scientists far out-weighed any notion of prosecuting them for war crimes. The names of several scientists were deleted from the Army’s war crimes suspects list, and the CIC was directed to accelerate background clearances for them. The war crimes investigations were closed, and a “no derogatory information” report was issued. The scientists were simply listed as cargo on an aircraft weigh bill and flown to the United States. Several years later they would be paraded across the Mexican border and back again so as to create a “legal” entry for immigration.108 It was almost an article of faith that any deception was permissible to protect valuable scientists such as Wernher von Braun from Soviet apprehension.
"There were, however, several incidents that graphically illustrated the haphazard nature of postwar security checks for German scientists. According to one CIA agent, Klaus Fuchs was given clearance to work on the atomic bomb project despite the fact that the agency possessed a classified SS report identifying him as a Communist spy. The document was discovered only after Fuchs had sent much important information off to Moscow. (I have since found this document in the National Archives.) The net result of OPC’s recruitment of Nazi scientists was that the Russians obtained all the secrets of the US Atom Bomb research."
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"Incriminating information was removed from the files and false identities were created as necessary. And so, while other government agencies were actively engaged in pursuing Nazi war criminals, the State Department was importing their Nazi leaders to the safety of the United States.
"It was not a large operation at first. A few dozen obscure politicians from countries under Soviet occupation were brought to New York and put to work in “private” organizations dedicated to opposing communism.* Outside of a handful of State Department officials, few even knew of their Nazi collaboration, fewer still realized their connection to Nazi intelligence operations. Between 1948 and 1950, while the CIA was still being organized, the State Department systematically imported and recruited the leaders of nearly all the puppet regimes established by the Third Reich from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Hilger’s dream was coming true.
"George Kennan, who designed the administrative structure of OPC for the State Department, was also instrumental in forming the National Committee for a Free Europe. However, there is no conclusive evidence that he knew that Joyce and Wisner were staffing these committees with former Nazi collaborators.[ Such ignorance does seem implausible, given Kennan’s rank and position.]"
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"The OPC insiders were hardly ignorant of the fact that these men were responsible for war crimes involving thousands of innocent civilians. Joyce himself had fought the Nazi collaborators in Yugoslavia. Wisner had been stationed with the OSS in Istanbul during the war when refugees escaping from Eastern Europe described the role of these political leaders in the Holocaust. Kennan, the State Department’s Russian expert, must have had access to the reports of atrocities in Byelorussia and the Ukraine from the OSS, the Polish Secret Service, and the U.S. Military Attache in Moscow. The Department even maintained a Political Biographical Section that cross-filed all the reports on the emigre leaders. In the Library of Congress is a 1948 publication by the government of Albania, identifying its major collaborators and war criminals. Across the top is the signature of the State Department official who donated the copy. A few months later, many of the war criminals listed were placed in charge of the “National Committee for a Free Albania” by the State Department. A review of State cable traffic in the National Archives, Diplomatic Branch, Decimal Files Section, shows that they possessed similar information on the backgrounds of the collaborators in each country prior to OPC’s recruiting drive in 1948-50.
"Kennan’s friend in the German Foreign Office, Gustav Hilger, can hardly deny that he knew of the atrocities. Foreign Office records in the National Archives show that weekly reports from the Einsatzgruppen were forwarded to Hilger’s Russian desk. Hilger’s records were cited in a CIA report (now declassified) listing “S.S. officers wanted for atrocities and mass murders.” Ironically, the report lists Friedrich Buchardt, Hilger’s counterpart in the SS, for his war crimes in Byelorussia. Several of the persons named in the CIA report, including various Ukrainian collaborators [such as Mykola Lebed], were recruited by OPC. In a secret report, an Army intelligence officer noted with amusement that one wing of the CIA (apparently OSO) was hunting Ukrainian Nazis, while another wing (OPC) was recruiting them. All of the intelligence officers with whom I spoke placed full responsibility for the initial recruitment of collaborators on the State Department."
"Tragically, those refugees who opposed both the Nazis and the Communists were ignored."
"*Not all the scientists, of course, were von Brauns. Some were Soviet spies. Not until many years later, when one of the Paperclip scientists turned down a job requiring a Top Secret clearance, did the Army first begin to suspect that it may have been too hasty in expediting the earlier background checks. The “scientist” confessed that he had simply made up a host of academic credentials in the hope that the Americans would grant him sanctuary. Upon arrival in the United States he had sought out managerial positions where his fictitious degrees would not be challenged. The “scientist” feared that if he accepted the better-paying job offer and underwent a Top Secret clearance investigation his fraud might be discovered. To the consternation of the Army investigator conducting the interview, the man also confessed that before his departure to the United States he had been solicited to become an informant for Soviet intelligence. For years the “scientist” had lived in dread that one day the Soviet agents would blackmail him. After an investigation the Army decided that he was telling the truth and had not been in contact with the Soviets since coming to America. Apparently the Soviets had much higher level Nazi scientists on their payroll."
"The OPC insiders were hardly ignorant of the fact that these men were responsible for war crimes involving thousands of innocent civilians. Joyce himself had fought the Nazi collaborators in Yugoslavia. Wisner had been stationed with the OSS in Istanbul during the war when refugees escaping from Eastern Europe described the role of these political leaders in the Holocaust. Kennan, the State Department’s Russian expert, must have had access to the reports of atrocities in Byelorussia and the Ukraine from the OSS, the Polish Secret Service, and the U.S. Military Attache in Moscow. The Department even maintained a Political Biographical Section that cross-filed all the reports on the emigre leaders. In the Library of Congress is a 1948 publication by the government of Albania, identifying its major collaborators and war criminals. Across the top is the signature of the State Department official who donated the copy. A few months later, many of the war criminals listed were placed in charge of the “National Committee for a Free Albania” by the State Department. A review of State cable traffic in the National Archives, Diplomatic Branch, Decimal Files Section, shows that they possessed similar information on the backgrounds of the collaborators in each country prior to OPC’s recruiting drive in 1948-50.
"Kennan’s friend in the German Foreign Office, Gustav Hilger, can hardly deny that he knew of the atrocities. Foreign Office records in the National Archives show that weekly reports from the Einsatzgruppen were forwarded to Hilger’s Russian desk. Hilger’s records were cited in a CIA report (now declassified) listing “S.S. officers wanted for atrocities and mass murders.” Ironically, the report lists Friedrich Buchardt, Hilger’s counterpart in the SS, for his war crimes in Byelorussia. Several of the persons named in the CIA report, including various Ukrainian collaborators [such as Mykola Lebed], were recruited by OPC. In a secret report, an Army intelligence officer noted with amusement that one wing of the CIA (apparently OSO) was hunting Ukrainian Nazis, while another wing (OPC) was recruiting them. All of the intelligence officers with whom I spoke placed full responsibility for the initial recruitment of collaborators on the State Department."
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"Tragically, those refugees who opposed both the Nazis and the Communists were ignored."
"*Not all the scientists, of course, were von Brauns. Some were Soviet spies. Not until many years later, when one of the Paperclip scientists turned down a job requiring a Top Secret clearance, did the Army first begin to suspect that it may have been too hasty in expediting the earlier background checks. The “scientist” confessed that he had simply made up a host of academic credentials in the hope that the Americans would grant him sanctuary. Upon arrival in the United States he had sought out managerial positions where his fictitious degrees would not be challenged. The “scientist” feared that if he accepted the better-paying job offer and underwent a Top Secret clearance investigation his fraud might be discovered. To the consternation of the Army investigator conducting the interview, the man also confessed that before his departure to the United States he had been solicited to become an informant for Soviet intelligence. For years the “scientist” had lived in dread that one day the Soviet agents would blackmail him. After an investigation the Army decided that he was telling the truth and had not been in contact with the Soviets since coming to America. Apparently the Soviets had much higher level Nazi scientists on their payroll."
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" ... Although it was a violation of the Treaty of Montevideo to assist Nazis to find shelter in the Western Hemisphere, the Pentagon, at least where its own interests were concerned, was willing to ignore any Nazi migration to South America. The Soviets got wind of the exodus, and Pravda charged that thousands of Soviet nationals in the American and British zones of occupation were being sent to South America by way of Trieste. [One minor Vatican official wrote that his office had helped resettle 20,000 fugitive German soldiers and technicians to South America.]"
" ... In one day Jasiuk murdered the entire Jewish population of the county, conservatively estimated at more than 5,000 people."
" ... Although it was a violation of the Treaty of Montevideo to assist Nazis to find shelter in the Western Hemisphere, the Pentagon, at least where its own interests were concerned, was willing to ignore any Nazi migration to South America. The Soviets got wind of the exodus, and Pravda charged that thousands of Soviet nationals in the American and British zones of occupation were being sent to South America by way of Trieste. [One minor Vatican official wrote that his office had helped resettle 20,000 fugitive German soldiers and technicians to South America.]"
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" ... In one day Jasiuk murdered the entire Jewish population of the county, conservatively estimated at more than 5,000 people."
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"When Richard Nixon was a naval officer, he was assigned to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to review captured German financial documents, some of which, according to legend, involved the Dulles brothers and their clients. The Dulles brothers promptly financed Nixon's first run for congress and then prevailed upon Eisenhower to take him on as Vice President. Australian intelligence records confirmed that President Nixon used East European nazi vote as his ethnic counterweight to the Jewish vote for the Democrats in five key states. This story is developed in some detail in J. Loftus and M. Aarons, The Secret War Against The Jews.
"When Richard Nixon was a naval officer, he was assigned to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to review captured German financial documents, some of which, according to legend, involved the Dulles brothers and their clients. The Dulles brothers promptly financed Nixon's first run for congress and then prevailed upon Eisenhower to take him on as Vice President. Australian intelligence records confirmed that President Nixon used East European nazi vote as his ethnic counterweight to the Jewish vote for the Democrats in five key states. This story is developed in some detail in J. Loftus and M. Aarons, The Secret War Against The Jews.
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Nationalist governments in Iran in 1953 and Guatemala a year later were overthrown by Dulles and Wisner even though they weren't communist, because their replacement were deemed necessary by corporate clients of Dulles.
Wisner ordered simultaneous revolts in several major cities of East Europe, with plans in place for liberation armies paratroopers dropped after government buildings and radio stations were captured by underground cells. Wisner began pouring millions of dollars in training dissidents in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Baltic states, Byelorussia and more. But secrecy necessary for all this to succeed had been lost long before, since his network of ex nazi organisations had been infiltrated long ago by communists reporting directly to Moscow.
Hungarian rebellion in 1956, desperately calling on radio for aid, was crushed successfully by Soviet invasion, partly because U.S. wasn't ready for an all out war, but even more because Wisner had been fed lies by agents he'd recruited who turned out to be communists according to Gestapo files, and Wisner never had a network in place in East Europe anywhere except in East Germany.
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"The same oil companies that made profits off the Third Reich and were never prosecuted, are now providing the lifeblood of funding for Arab terrorism. "
"CAIR is the propaganda arm of the Hamas terrorist wing of the Muslim brotherhood."
Nationalist governments in Iran in 1953 and Guatemala a year later were overthrown by Dulles and Wisner even though they weren't communist, because their replacement were deemed necessary by corporate clients of Dulles.
Wisner ordered simultaneous revolts in several major cities of East Europe, with plans in place for liberation armies paratroopers dropped after government buildings and radio stations were captured by underground cells. Wisner began pouring millions of dollars in training dissidents in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Baltic states, Byelorussia and more. But secrecy necessary for all this to succeed had been lost long before, since his network of ex nazi organisations had been infiltrated long ago by communists reporting directly to Moscow.
Hungarian rebellion in 1956, desperately calling on radio for aid, was crushed successfully by Soviet invasion, partly because U.S. wasn't ready for an all out war, but even more because Wisner had been fed lies by agents he'd recruited who turned out to be communists according to Gestapo files, and Wisner never had a network in place in East Europe anywhere except in East Germany.
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"The same oil companies that made profits off the Third Reich and were never prosecuted, are now providing the lifeblood of funding for Arab terrorism. "
"CAIR is the propaganda arm of the Hamas terrorist wing of the Muslim brotherhood."
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