CIA allegedly recruited Nazi criminals, protecting them against reprisals

 

Thousands of Nazis were welcomed in the United States, and authorities refused to deport them

Members of the U.S. Congress called for the opening of government records, on suspicions that the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) recruited Nazi criminals after the war. They hope to lift the veil on the controversy.

Thousands of Nazi criminals were welcomed in the United States. Authorities refused to deport them, despite court orders to that effect. Similarly, the U.S. services refused to provide evidence of the former Nazis' abuses to the Mossad (Israel’s Foreign Intelligence Agency).

According to congress members' concerns, the refusal to remove Nazis from the U.S. was due to the former Nazis recruitment by the American intelligence agency, in the context of the Cold War. Their ultimate objective was countering communism.

This would explain, among other things, the fact that the FBI refused to testify at the trial of these criminals. Or that a CIA lawyer forced a judge to drop charges against a former Nazi suspected of being involved in the murder of 70,000 Jews in the Vilnius ghetto in Lithuania.  (more...)

CIA allegedly recruited Nazi criminals, protecting them against reprisals