Re: Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S., Report Says

[rich]

for anyone interested check out Hotel Terminus--not sure its on DVD
but a great documentary about Klaus Barbie's (who it seems was helped
along the way by every Western intelligence agency including the
Vatican) wonderful post-Nazi career as consultant torturer in South
America and eventual trial back in Lyon.

rich

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Bruce Appelbaum <brucea at bestweb.net> wrote:
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> Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
> That's not my department says Wehrner von Braun.
> The German rocket scientists who came to the US were all brought in not
> quite legally and despite their participation in war crimes were never
> prosecuted.
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> Bruce
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> "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry
> about answers."
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>        --- Thomas Pynchon
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> On Nov 15, 2010, at 5:25 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:
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> Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S., Report Says
> By ERIC LICHTBLAU
> Published: November 13, 2010
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> WASHINGTON — A secret history of the United States government’s
> Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials
> created a “safe haven” in the United States for Nazis and their
> collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clashes,
> often hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and abroad.
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> 600-page report, which the Justice Department has tried to keep secret
> for four years, provides new evidence about more than two dozen of the
> most notorious Nazi cases of the last three decades.
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> [...]
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> The report also examines the case of Arthur L. Rudolph, a Nazi
> scientist who ran the Mittelwerk munitions factory. He was brought to
> the United States in 1945 for his rocket-making expertise under
> Operation Paperclip, an American program that recruited scientists who
> had worked in Nazi Germany. (Rudolph has been honored by NASA and is
> credited as the father of the Saturn V rocket.)
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> The report cites a 1949 memo from the Justice Department’s No. 2
> official urging immigration officers to let Rudolph back in the
> country after a stay in Mexico, saying that a failure to do so “would
> be to the detriment of the national interest.”
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> Justice Department investigators later found evidence that Rudolph was
> much more actively involved in exploiting slave laborers at Mittelwerk
> than he or American intelligence officials had acknowledged, the
> report says.
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> Some intelligence officials objected when the Justice Department
> sought to deport him in 1983, but the O.S.I. considered the
> deportation of someone of Rudolph’s prominence as an affirmation of
> “the depth of the government’s commitment to the Nazi prosecution
> program,” according to internal memos.
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> [...]
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/us/14nazis.html
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