U.S. Said to Embrace Alleged Nazi Allies

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government threw moral qualms to the wind in employing ex-Nazis after World War II, contend historians who examined a mountain of declassified papers released Thursday.

The government "dishonored the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and American soldiers who died," said Elizabeth Holtzman, member of a government-appointed group studying millions of pages of files from that era.

Reinhard Gehlen, for example, was recruited by the CIA after World War II because he was chief of army intelligence for the Nazis on the Eastern Front, where most of the mass killings of Jews occurred. Gehlen was undoubtedly involved in the brutal interrogation of Russian prisoners of war, Holtzman said.

Gehlen was brought to America and then sent back to Germany to set up a major spy network for the United States. First, he worked for the CIA; later his operation became the West German intelligence service and he was thought to have employed Nazi war criminals.

EDITED BY ADMIN: COPYRIGHT

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/8657689.htm?1c

"In U.S. intelligence, there was no prohibition of hiring anyone in the Gestapo and SS," said historian Timothy Naftali. "This was a 'don't ask, don't tell' culture."

The bushlerco family has been decidedly fascist for generations.

Per DU copyright rules
please post only four
paragraphs from the
news source.

Thank you.


DU Moderator

article was in "subscriber" section so I wanted to spare anyone the trouble of not being able to see it.

won't happen again:)

http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/story41.html

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2003/051503a.html

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/051601a.html

Stalin was placing bids too. I'm not saying any of it is right... but if the USSR had a free hand with all the Nazi scientists, etc... it might've been a trump card.

we went to to secure Gehlen's services, the handsome rewards he enjoyed at taxpayer expense, in the end his contribution to US intelligence and security turned out to be zilch. After the fall of the Soviets and the opening of classified records, historians found that virtually all the information Gehlen forwarded from his vaunted Russian spy ring was grade-Z bullshit. We danced with a Nazi who was clever enough to spin the kind of assessments that matched Dulles' preconceptions, and got snookered. And since we didn't uncover his treachery for decades, that vile shit had an appreciably adverse affect on the course of US history. Imagine that.