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David O Q
On 11 Sep 01, at 1:03, Richard Sanders wrote:
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> The 1934 attempted fascist coup in the US is one of the most interesting
> bits of US history. It is also one of the bits that is least known.
> Irenee du Pont was one of the main conspirators in the attempted coup in
> 1934. Other multimillionaires who are household names in the USA today
> were also involved.
>
> Smedley Butler was recruited to lead the operation, since he had so much
> experience overthrowing governments. He'd done it for the marines for
> decades in other countries. They wanted him to be America;s Hitler. He
> let them down big time. He pretended to go along with the coup plan and
> met with the planners. Then he reported the coup plans to President
> Roosevelt.
>
> Roosevelt died suddenly just as the war was almost ending. He had crossed
> Allen Dulles, the chief architect of US involvement with the Nazis. A wall
> street lawyer for the Nazis who became the head of the CIA for several
> decades until Kennedy fired him for the Bay of Pigs fiasco. We know what
> happened to Kennedy.
>
> It is interesting to wonder what would have happened if Roosevelt had not
> disappeared from the scene so suddenly at the close of the war.
>
> Here is some information that deals with a related and very fascinating
> chapter in US history, the connection between Nazism and the CIA. It's
> from our magazine Press for Conversion (January 2001 Issue #43) which was
> on the theme: "A People's History of the CIA: The Subversion of Democracy
> from Australia to Zaire." Many more interesting articles like this are
> available in the online version of that issue of our magazine. Here's
> where you'll find the table of contents for about 40 articles covering the
> history of the CIA and its support for fascism around the globe.
> <http://www.ncf.ca/coat/our_magazine/links/issue43/issue43.htm>
>
> Cheers
> Richard
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>
> 1944-1954
>
> Germany/USA: Original Sin - From SS to OSS
>
> By Martin A. Lee
>
> The CIA's "original sin," dates back to when it used a Nazi spy network
> brimming with war criminals. The CIA protected this cast of killers to
> ostensibly counter the Soviet threat. The key player on the German side of
> this unholy alliance was Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler's top anti-Soviet spy.
> Gehlen oversaw Germany's military-intelligence capabilities throughout
> Eastern Europe and the U.S.S.R.
>
> As the war drew to a close, the crafty Gehlen surmised that the grand
> anti-fascist coalition - led by the U.S., Britain and the Soviet Union -
> would not survive the peace. Gehlen also recognized that U.S. intelligence
> operations would be ill-prepared to wage a sustained struggle against the
> U.S.S.R.
>
> Gehlen surrendered to a U.S. Counter-intelligence Corps team on May
> 22, 1945. He offered to share the vast espionage archive on the U.S.S.R.
> He also offered to activate an underground army of battle-hardened
> anti-communists in Eastern Europe.
>
> Although the ink had barely dried on the Yalta agreements, which
> required the U.S. to give the Soviets any captured German officers who had
> been involved in "eastern area activities," Gehlen was transferred to Fort
> Hunt, Virginia.
>
> During his 10 months at Fort Hunt, Gehlen presented a professional
> image, the pure technician who liked nothing better than to immerse himself
> in maps, flowcharts and statistics. Allen Dulles, head of the U.S. Office
> of Strategic Services (OSS) and future CIA director, became one of Gehlen's
> biggest post-war boosters.
>
> With a mandate to continue gathering information in Eastern Europe
> just as he had been doing for Hitler, Gehlen re-established his spy
> organization, initially under U.S. Army supervision. The Gehlen "Org," as
> it was called, enlisted thousands of Gestapo, Wehrmacht and SS veterans.
>
> Senior bureaucrats who administered the Holocaust were welcomed into
> the Org. (Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann's right-hand man and personal
> favorite, found gainful employment courtesy of Gehlen and the CIA.) "It
> seems," the Frankfurter Rundschau editorialized, "that in the Gehlen
> headquarters one SS man paved the way for the next and Himmler's elite were
> having happy reunion ceremonies."
>
> U.S. officials knew that many of the people they were subsidizing had
> committed horrible crimes against humanity, but atrocities were overlooked
> as the anti-communist crusade gained momentum. Through Gehlen, the CIA had
> access to former leaders of virtually every Nazi puppet regime from the
> Baltics to the Black Sea, as well as a rogues gallery of Waffen SS fanatics.
>
> Working within the CIA in the late 1940s, Gehlen's Nazi-infested spy
> apparatus functioned as America's secret eyes and ears in Central Europe.
> Under CIA auspices, and later as head of the West German secret service
> (BND), Gehlen influenced U.S. policy toward the Soviet Bloc. The Org
> played a major role within NATO, too, supplying two-thirds of raw
> intelligence on Warsaw Pact countries.
>
> "We had an agreement to exploit each other, each in his own national
> interest," said James Critchfield, a CIA operative who worked with Gehlen
> on a daily basis for eight years. "The CIA loved Gehlen because he fed us
> what we wanted to hear," an ex-CIA officer told writer Christopher Simpson.
> "We used his stuff constantly and we fed it to the Pentagon, the White
> House and the newspapers. They loved it, too. But it was hyped up Russian
> bogeyman junk and it did a lot of damage to this country."
>
> Washington's growing dependence on Gehlen made U.S. officials sitting
> ducks for disinformation. Much of what he supplied exaggerated the Soviet
> threat and whipped up fears about Russian military intentions. The Nazi
> spymaster fostered paranoia in the West about a worldwide communist
> conspiracy. Gehlen's strategy was based on a rudimentary equation; the
> colder the Cold War got, the more political space for Hitler's heirs.
>
> While Gehlen catered to the CIA's anti-communist cravings, his Org
> became the life raft for legions of Hitler's SS henchmen to escape their
> crimes and resettle safely in the post-war world. Third Reich expatriates
> and fascist collaborators found jobs as "security advisers" in the Middle
> East and Latin America, where "death squads" persist as an enduring legacy.
>
> The Gehlen debacle continues to exact a price against human decency
> in the world. It is a price rarely acknowledged amid Washington's
> post-Cold War triumphalism. After 50 years, the resurgence of fascism in
> Europe and elsewhere underscores the need for Americans to confront - and
> understand - some of these terrible demons of the Cold War past.
>
> Source: "CIA at 50: Still Hiding Its 'Original' Nazi Sin," The Consortium
> for Independent Journalism, 1997. www.consortiumnews.com/archive/story41.html
>
>
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>
> Brigadier General Reinhard Gehlen
> Chief, of the Third Reich's "Foreign Armies East."
>
> Gehlen worked with many secret fascist organizations, including:
>
> Stepan Bandera's "B Faction," Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
>
> Romania's Iron Guard
>
> the Ustachis of Yugoslavia
>
> the Vanagis of Latvia
>
> Vlassov's Army" in Russia.
>
>
> Source: Christopher Simpson. Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and
> its Effects on the Cold War, 1988.
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>
> West Germany's Spymaster
> (1956-1968)
>
>
> In 1956, control of the Gehlen Org shifted from the CIA to West Germany's
> Intelligence Service. Gehlen was its director until he retired in 1968.
>
> Soruce: "Gehlen Organization:, Nov 26, 1997. Federation of American
> Scientists: http://www.fas.org/irp/world/germany/intro/
>
>
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>
>
> Allen Dulles
> (1893-1969)
>
> Chief Architect of U.S.-Nazi business and spy networks
> spy at the U.S. embassy in Bern, Switzerland, collecting political data for
> the State Department on Germany and the Austro-Hungarian empire (1916-1918)
> member, U.S. staff, Versailles Peace Conference (1918-1922)
> head, State Department's Near East Affairs division (1922-27)
> worked with brother John Foster Dulles, as lawyer and international finance
> specialist for Sullivan & Cromwell, a Wall Street law firm in New York
> (1927-1941). While there, he worked with top Nazi industrialists and played
> a pivotal role in promoting U.S.-Nazi corporate relations. Allen worked
> with Prescott Bush (grandfather of Pres. G.W.Bush) and George H.Walker
> (Prescott's father-in-law) who ran Union Banking Corp. for the Nazis.
> Allen was legal counsel for Standard Oil and the Nazi's I.G. Farben,
> co-owned by the Rockefellers. (Other U.S. millionaires allied to the Nazis
> were: William R.Hearst Sr., Andrew Mellon, Irenee du Pont, Henry Ford and
> J.P.Morgan. Morgan, du Pont and others were even involved in a Fascist plot
> to overthrow the U.S. government in 1934.)
> President Roosevelt, realizing Dulles was a traitor, had his New York
> "Office of Coordinator of Information" wiretapped (1941-42). Some
> Dulles-linked firms, like Bush's Union Banking Corp., were seized under the
> Trading with the Enemy Act (1942)
> Berne station chief, Office of Strategic Services (1942-1945). Roosevelt's
> plan to charge Dulles with treason failed when Dulles was warned and
> covered his tracks (1944). Roosevelt's plan died with him (1945).
> as OSS station chief in Berlin, Dulles negotiated the agreement with
> General Reinhold Gehlen to establish a Nazi spy network within the OSS
> (1945).
> Dulles helped in the development of the CIA (1947), became its deputy
> director (1951) and its director (1953-1961). He oversaw numerous covert
> operations, such as election rigging in Italy (1948), coups in Iran (1953)
> and Guatemala (1954) and many other notorious operations described in this
> issue.
> When Union Banking Corp. was liquidated, P.Bush and G.H.Walk-er received
> $1.5 million (1951)
> was fired by Kennedy after the failed invasion of Cuba (1961)
> as a member of the Warren Commission, he promoted the theory that a "lone
> gunman" assassinated J.F.Kennedy (1963).
>
> Sources: members.nbci.com/1spy;
> www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/allen.dulles/ ,
> baltech.org/lederman/spray , www.newscoast.com/headlinesstory2.cfm?ID=35115
>
>
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> Growth of Gehlen Org
>
> The Gehlen Org initially included Gehlen's immediate staff of about 350
> agents. Hundreds of German army and SS officers were released from
> internment camps to join his headquarters in Germany's Spessart Mountains.
>
> When the staff grew to 3,000, the Org moved to a compound near
> Pullach, south of Munich. It operated under the innocent name, South
> German Industrial Development Organization. By the early-1950s, the
> organization employed up to 4,000 intelligence specialists in Germany
> (mainly former army and SS officers) and more than 4,000 undercover agents
> who were active throughout the Soviet-bloc.
>
> Under Operation Sunrise, some 5,000 anti-communist East Europeans and
> Russians were trained in Germany in 1946, under the command of General
> Sikes and SS General Burckhardt. They supported insurgencies in areas such
> as Ukraine, which were not suppressed by the Soviets until 1956.
>
> Source: www.fas.org/irp/world/germany/intro/
>
>
>
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