Better late than never? Or too late?The CIA (news - web sites), under pressure from Congress, has agreed in principle to release new documents detailing its ties to former Nazis who aided U.S. Cold War espionage against the Soviet Union, officials said on Sunday.[...]
CIA officials have conceded that records on former Nazis who have not been accused of war crimes, including members of the German SS, should be subject to the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act of 1998, the officials said.
"This means the information we thought would come out when we wrote the law, will now come out," said Sen. Mike DeWine.
Yahoo News article
The CIA's position changed late last week in closed-door discussions with working group members after DeWine, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, demanded that CIA Director Porter Goss appear before the panel to provide a public explanation of his agency's refusal to disclose the records.
Goss co-sponsored the 1998 disclosure legislation during his tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he led the chamber's intelligence committee.
Gee, where else are we doing something similar, Saddam? Why is it a negative thing in WWII and not in Iraq?Five of Adolph Eichmann's Nazi assistants were recruited and employed by the Central Intelligence Agency after World War II, according to recently declassified intelligence documents.[...]
The revelations cast a negative light not only on American intelligence activity but also the U.S. Army's conduct in Germany at the conclusion of the war. The military made efforts to recruit members of the SS and the Gestapo into its ranks despite simultaenously waging a campaign of de-Nazification over vanquished Germany, a process which included arresting and trying Nazi war criminals.
Haaretz article
According to the new findings, Gehlen's Organization employed a number of Gestapo and SS officials. [Reinhard Gehlen, who was the Wermacht's chief intelligence officer for the eastern front,] and his senior associates secretly operated out of a building with the knowledge of the American occupation forces.
More on the Bush-Nazi connections.
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