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From: Brian Redman (bigxc@firefly.prairienet.org)
Date: Sun Dec 18 1994 - 03:41:50 PST
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 3 Num. 23
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CONSPIRACY:
THE INVISIBLE SECOND RUNG OF GOVERNMENT
An Investigation and Discussion of that Part of the United
States Government Which We Did Not Elect, Which Is Not
Accountable, Which Is Unconstitutional, Which Is Engaged In
Unlawful and Unconstitutional Activity, and Then Hides Behind
the National Security Act of 1947
PART I :
CITATION AND SUMMARY OF SOURCES
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29. Simpson, Christopher, Blowback, New York, New York,
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. Simpson is an award-winning
investigative reporter in Washington, D.C. Summary: Documents
U.S. collaboration with Nazis since WWII and its cover-up; how
the Pentagon falsified files in order to bring the Nazi war
criminals here; how the "Nazis on the U.S. intelligence payroll
seriously misrepresented the nature and extent of the Soviet
threat, thereby" unnecessarily heightening the cold war, "and
significantly contributed to the hysteria of the cold war and the
McCarthy era;" "how the CIA has spent millions to bankroll anti-
Semitic emigre political groups inside the United States - and
has consistently hidden the part played by leaders of these
groups during the Holocaust." The exile groups have "articulate
defenders inside the staff of the National Security Council" and
"influence on Capitol Hill."
In spy jargon blowback means "unexpected - and negative - effects
at home that result from covert operations overseas. Examples
include an organization of former Nazis that "provided false
information that nearly led to World War III;" and, "McCarthy
employed a secret U.S. espionage squad made up in part of Nazi
collaborators to gather slanderous information used to smear
political opponents."
Documents knowing collaboration by the mass media with the CIA in
spreading cold war myths and participation in transforming Nazi
collaborators into freedom fighters. (CIA propagandizing its own
citizens is illegal.) The mass media also suppressed "critical
news concerning the CIA's propaganda projects," as well as
falsifying their reports to the public. Reporters who wrote
exposes learned that their pieces "were simply not welcome at
mainstream publications." Some of these publications included
Time-Life, Reader's Digest, and Fortune magazine.
"U.S. interventions abroad have facilitated the entry into
America of extremist and even terrorist emigre organizations that
have subsequently gained political footholds in ethnic
communities in this country, often through the use of violence
and intimidation." "Only weeks after Hitler's final collapse,"
the U.S. began integrating hundreds of Nazi scientists into U.S.
military research projects financed by American taxpayers.
There was a two-tier U.S. policy: "It combined a public
condemnation and pursuit of fugitive Nazi criminals, on the one
hand, with secret protection and utilization of some of the same
men, on the other....It became routine for U.S. intelligence
agencies to defy the announced policies of the American
government concerning Nazi fugitives."
Many examples of this policy are given. "Reinhard Gehlen,
Hitler's most senior military intelligence officer on the eastern
front" and other "senior Nazi security officers" were freed by
the U.S., and then installed "in a former Waffen SS training
facility near Pullach, Germany, which has remained the group's
headquarters to this day." Gehlen was personally responsible for
organizing one of the worst "atrocities of the war: the torture,
interrogation, and murder by starvation of some 4 million Soviet
prisoners of war." Gehlen's spy organization employed former SS
men, ones who "had been instrumental in the mass extermination of
Jews," and "had led mobile killing squads."
Another Nazi who helped form U.S. foreign policy was German
diplomat Gustav Hilger. During the war, he processed SS reports
on the mobile killing squads for Hitler. One such report entered
into evidence at Nuremberg cites that: three escaped Jews had
been recaptured then publicly hanged; of the Jews shot, 3412
"were shot in Minsk, 302 in Vileika and 2007 in Baranovichi,"
15000 in Rakov, "and 1224 in Artenovsk, so that these Places are
now free of Jews. In the Crimea 1000 Jews and gypsies were
executed."
Hilger also had a direct role in the Hungarian murder of 4000
Jews and 6000 Serbs. He also led Germany's attack on several
thousand Italian Jews, who were first forced into work camps,
then shipped to Auschwitz by train.
Hilger, aided by the U.S., evaded arrest, settled in West Germany
(expenses for travel paid for by the U.S.), and served as
ambassador to the United States there. He was given a high-level
security clearance, given access to highly classified
information, and advised President Truman on East-West foreign
policy.
In another example of U.S. aid to Nazis, the U.S. government
secretly released a large amount of "black currency" in Italy to
fund clandestine activities, a large part of which "came from
captured Nazi German assets, including money and gold that the
Nazis had looted from the Jews." This money was given to Walter
Rauff's sponsor. "Rauff was a major war criminal. He had
personally developed and administered the notorious gas truck
execution program which took the lives of approximately 250,000
people, most of them Jewish women and children who died in
unspeakable filth and agony." Rauff's sponsor used the money "to
buy Jeeps, bedding, and guns for an underground squadron of some
300 anti-Communist Italian youths for use during the l948
elections. The job of this band was beatings of left-wing
candidates and activists, breaking up political meetings, and
intimidating voters. [These] troops became the forerunners of a
number of other similar paramilitary gangs funded by the CIA in
Germany, Greece, Turkey, and several other countries over the
next decade."
The justification for using covert operations such as this was
that it enabled the President to bypass the normal controls of a
democracy, namely Congress and the Department of State, in
setting foreign policy. It also "permitted the president
secretly to carry out actions that would discredit the United
States if they were undertaken openly."
Another covert operation approved in 1948 by the U.S. was
contained in National Security Council decision NSC 10/2, which
authorized "covert warfare, sabotage, and assassination," black
psychological warfare, clandestine warfare, subversion, economic
warfare, propaganda, and demolition. It was planned in such a
way that "any U.S. government responsibility for them is not
evident to unauthorized persons and that if [they are] uncovered
the U.S. government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for
them."
This decision was kept so secret that "had it not been for the
congressional investigations into U.S. intelligence practices
that followed the Watergate affair almost thirty years later, the
very existence of this decision would still be secret."
Immigration was ordered to keep detailed reports on all Nazis
brought to the U.S., but the agency claims it can't locate those
records.
In 1950, the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) and the
CIA trained "at least 100 members of the far-right-wing League of
Young Germans" in guerrilla warfare, supplying free arms,
ammunition, and explosives with about $500,000 per year (1950
dollars). Most of the League of Young Germans were "Waffen SS
and Wehrmacht veterans." Most of the leadership "had been
enthusiastic 'Jew baiters' in the Goebbels ministry during the
Nazis' rule." In the event of a Soviet attack, the group planned
to assassinate more than forty top German leaders. They had a
hit list, had infiltrated these German political groups, and were
regularly tailing these German leaders. Accidentally, their
plans were foiled by a chance arrest which led to their
discovery. "According to the later German parliament report on
the affair, the American agencies were actually paying the
plotters an additional 12,000 deutsche marks per month for these
espionage services." Once caught, the U.S. claimed it did not
know what its own contract agents had been up to. Even if true,
this ignorance "is a clear indication of just how little real
control U.S. intelligence had over many of its far-flung
paramilitary operations and how carelessly it was willing to
spend money."
"The concepts of maintaining 'plausible deniability' for the
actual murder and of the expendability of the killers themselves
are a key to understanding U.S. assassination techniques."
Covert "warfare specialists believed that the most 'productive' -
and least compromising - method of killing foreign officials was
to underwrite the discontent of indigenous groups and let them
take the risks." Exactly how U.S. assassinations "worked during
the cold war and who was responsible for them" is contained in
scattered and fragmentary evidence. "All that can be said with
certainty is that such murders did take place" and some carried
out by Nazi collaborators.
"Before the decade of the 1950s was out, the CIA is known to have
established mechanisms for using "deniable" assets and emigres
for the execution of heads of state and other international
leaders. These later killings, which are arguably the most
serious blunders ever made by the CIA, have created blowback
problems on an international scale and have had a significant and
generally negative effect on the lives of millions of people."
A 1949 law allows up to 100 persons (and their families) per year
to enter the U.S. even if they are inadmissible under immigration
or other law, if the CIA Director, the Attorney General, and the
Commissioner of Immigration decide that it is in the interests of
national security to do so. The AG and C of I claim they have no
records about any such aliens for the last 35 years. The CIA
"defied a congressional committee's request for an accounting -
even a secret accounting...."
The problem is that apparently the CIA uses the authority of this
law to legalize an alien only if the alien is accidentally caught
by INS.
Buried in the text of this same 1949 law, "and mentioned almost
in passing, was legal authorization for the CIA to ignore public
accountability for its budget, its personnel policy, or its
procurement practices.
Within the Ukraine in 1949, the CIA and the Office for Policy
Coordination sought out Ukrainian SS and militia veterans to have
ready troops in case of a nuclear conflict with the USSR. These
Nazi collaborators tried to halt "efforts to establish collective
farms in the Ukraine by identifying peasant farmers who agreed to
join the state-sponsored farms. 'That same night,' the U.S.
military attache cabled to Washington, OUN guerrillas 'appeared
in the homes of these individuals and chopped off the arms which
the peasants had raised at the [collective farm] meeting to
signify assent.' Similarly, according to a second American
report, 'prosperous Jews' were 'singled out' for attack along
with Communists during the insurgency in much the same way they
had been during the Nazi occupation."
As a result, Ukrainian people "gave increased credence to the
Soviet government's message that the United States, too, was
really Nazi at heart and capable of using any sort of deceit and
violence to achieve its ends." This is an example of blowback
affecting every U.S. citizen.
Another example of blowback was that the U.S. was vulnerable to
blackmail by these former Nazis on U.S. payroll if they were also
fugitives from war crimes charges. They promised continuing
silence about U.S. covert operations on the condition that they
receive help in escaping.
So, the U.S. became a major player in the underground Nazi escape
networks, or ratlines, the most important of which was operated
through the Vatican in Rome, due to Nazi and Vatican's shared
struggle against "atheistic communism." During the course of the
war, some Catholic Church leaders lost their lives in their
struggle against Nazi crimes. But, there were certain church-
based political parties (Christian Democratic and clerical-
Fascist) which "used the mantle and the moral authority of the
church to help carry out the preparation for, and in some cases
the actual execution of, the Nazi genocide of the Jews."
One of the Nazi war criminals sponsored by the U.S. on this
ratline was Klaus Barbie. He "had deported Jews to death camps,
[and] tortured and murdered the resistance fighters who fell into
his hands...." The CIC was after Barbie. Barbie volunteered for
service in the CIC through a friend, Merk, who was also a war
crimes fugitive running a spy network for the CIC. Merk
convinced his CIC controlling agent that Barbie could be useful.
The CIC controlling agent "then hired Barbie and kept him hidden
from the rest of the CIC." Later another CIC agent learned
through an informer that Barbie had tortured French resistance
fighters, that he "used to hang them by their thumbs until they
were dead...[and that] if the French ever found out how many mass
graves Barbie was responsible for, even Eisenhower would not be
able to protect him."
The French government began requesting Barbie's extradition.
Barbie's CIC handlers decided to help him escape in the ratline
because, if arrested, would have too many "compromising things to
say about the CIC...." Thirty years later, due to changes in
government and public opinion, Barbie was apprehended. A
resulting U.S. Justice Department investigation concluded that
the U.S. had protected Barbie and planned his escape, "but that
Barbie was the only such Nazi who had been assisted in this
fashion."
The U.S. sponsorship of other war criminals, in particular,
Ustachis or Croatian fascists, as passengers in the ratline led
to their establishing new Ustachi cells in communities overseas,
"in some cases headed by the same men who had once led murder
squads inside wartime Croatia. This violent, "extremist sect
remains active to this day in the U.S., Australia and several
other countries." FBI investigative reports conclude they "have
been responsible for an airplane hijacking, bombings, extortion,
numerous murders, and the assassination of several Yugoslavian
diplomats over the course of the last two decades."
The CIC's support of this ratline contributed to the presence
within the U.S. of terrorist groups.
In 1949 and 1950 the National Security Council made two decisions
that affected the way the U.S. handled Nazi collaborators both
overseas (NSC Intelligence Directive 13) and here in the U.S.
(NSC Intelligence Directive 14). NSCID 14 expanded the CIA's
authority to function inside the U.S. - "in an apparent violation
of the CIA's charter" - as long as those functions were performed
"through emigre political organizations that supposedly still had
some connection with the old country." As a result, a large
amount of the CIA's money has been "spent on lobbying the U.S.
congress and on other propaganda efforts inside this country - a
clear violation of the law."
The CIA "has repeatedly chosen to" use NSCID 14 "as authorization
for substantial political involvement in immigrant communities in
America. One of their programs began underwriting bringing
"favored European exiles into this country." Another was "a
multimillion-dollar publicity campaign in the" U.S. to win
"approval for cold war measures sponsored by the CIA."
The intense anti-communist atmosphere of the cold war, partly
created by the Nazi war criminals, was used as a place to hide,
socially, politically, and psychologically. War crime
accusations were called Communist propaganda. Anti-communism was
how the war criminals rationalized their atrocities.
"Respectable conservatives in this country who had never been
Nazi collaborators often turned a blind eye to this process and
were sometimes the most articulate advocates for SS veterans and
other collaborators." "The anti-Communist paranoia of the
McCarthy period gave these war criminals' fascision over German
scientists and spies led to suspicion, hostility, and fear
between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.
Second, further use of the Nazis escalated the cold war,
resulting in U.S. loss of friends in Eastern Europe, more
repression, and fewer civil liberties in that region. The
hypocrisy in our two-tier program has discredited America.
Third, former Nazis reported misinformation to the U.S.
intelligence agencies and that reinforced the predominant
preconceptions within Washington, D.C.
Fourth, by hiring the likes of Klaus Barbie, there has been a
corrupting influence on U.S. intelligence agencies. Recruiting
criminals, mercenaries, and torturers has produced "compromising
personnel problems that last for years, even for decades."
Protecting the retired CIA agent is necessary. But protection of
the agent keeps the American public from being able to expel
known Nazi criminals hiding in the U.S. Rather than using
information about a Nazi's crimes to blackmail him into service
for the CIA, the CIA should turn the information over to bring
the Nazi to trial.
Fifth, the CIA's misuse of Nazi emigre programs as a loophole to
intervene domestically in American politics. They manipulated
the media, broadcast propaganda, surveilled and harassed
opponents, manipulated academic research programs, lobbied
Capitol Hill, and penetrated senior leadership of trade unions,
corporations, religious groups, and student organizations.
Sixth, these clandestine activities using Nazis played a major
role in the obstruction of justice. These criminals who have
been brought to trial have developed the "CIA defense," in which
they claim that by divulging their past to the CIA, they
satisfied any and all legal requirements. Those criminals
brought in under the 100 Persons act will probably never be
brought to trial because their immigration was legal. Another
maneuver used by the war criminals is the "KGB defense," in
which it is claimed that the KGB is working in collaboration with
the U.S. to frame the former Nazi by manufacturing evidence.
Former White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan
called a recent prosecution of a Nazi death camp guard as "an
official lynching, choreographed by the KGB." The cold war
became a way for tens of thousands of Nazis to sidestep
responsibility for the murders they committed.
[...to be continued...]
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