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[Doug Millison]

"Honest and idealist ... enjoys good food and wine ... unprejudiced mind..."

That's how a 1952 Central Intelligence Agency assessment described Nazi
ideologue Emil Augsburg, an officer at the infamous Wannsee Institute, the
SS think tank involved in planning the Final Solution. Augsburg's SS unit
performed "special duties," a euphemism for exterminating Jews and other
"undesirables" during the Second World War. 
Although he was wanted in Poland for war crimes, Augsburg managed to
ingratiate himself with the U.S. CIA, which employed him in the late 1940s
as an expert on Soviet affairs.
Recently released CIA records indicate that Augsburg was among a rogue's
gallery of Nazi war criminals recruited by U.S. intelligence shortly after
Germany surrendered to the Allies. [...] It's long been known that top
German scientists were eagerly scooped up by several countries, including
the United States, which rushed to claim these high-profile experts as
spoils of World War II. Yet all the while the CIA was mum about recruiting
Nazi spies. The U.S. government never officially acknowledged its role in
launching the Gehlen organization until more than half a century after the
fact. Handling Nazi spies, however, was not the same as employing rocket
technicians. One could always tell whether Werner von Braun and his bunch
were accomplishing their assignments for NASA and other U.S. agencies. If
the rockets didn't fire properly, then the scientists would be judged
accordingly. But how does one determine if a Nazi spy with a dubious past is
doing a reliable job? [...] Members of the Gehlen Org were instrumental in
helping thousands of fascist fugitives escape via "ratlines" to safe havens
abroad - often with a wink and a nod from U.S. intelligence officers. Third
Reich expatriates and fascist collaborators subsequently emerged as
"security advisers" in several Middle Eastern and Latin American countries,
where ultra-right-wing death squads persist as their enduring legacy. [...]
Ironically, some of the men employed by Gehlen would go on to play leading
roles in European neofascist organizations that despise the United States.
One of the consequences of the CIA's ghoulish alliance with the Org is
evident today in a resurgent fascist movement in Europe that can trace its
ideological lineage back to Hitler's Reich through Gehlen operatives who
collaborated with U.S. intelligence. [...]




...continues at
http://www.consortiumnews.com/051601a.html