At 03:55 PM Wednesday 6/7/2006, Deborah Harrell wrote:
You can use brinl/brinl for login-
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/world/americas/07nazi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
The Central Intelligence Agency took no action after
learning the pseudonym and whereabouts of the fugitive
Holocaust administrator Adolf Eichmann in 1958,
according to C.I.A. documents released Tuesday that
shed new light on the spy agency's use of former Nazis
as informants after World War II...Two years later,
Israeli agents abducted Eichmann in Argentina and flew
him to Israel, where he was tried and executed in
1962.
The Eichmann papers are among 27,000 newly
declassified pages released by the C.I.A. to the
National Archives under Congressional pressure to make
public files about former officials of Hitler's regime
later used as American agents. The material reinforces
the view that most former Nazis gave American
intelligence little of value and in some cases proved
to be damaging double agents for the Soviet K.G.B.,
according to historians and members of the government
panel that has worked to open the long-secret files.
Elizabeth Holtzman, a former congresswoman from New
York and member of the panel, the Nazi War Crimes and
Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency
Working Group, said the documents showed that the
C.I.A "failed to lift a finger" to hunt Eichmann and
"force us to confront not only the moral harm but the
practical harm" of relying on intelligence from
ex-Nazis... Ms. Holtzman, speaking at a news briefing
at the National Archives on Tuesday, said information
from the former Nazis was often tainted both by their
"personal agendas" and their vulnerability to
blackmail. "Using bad people can have very bad
consequences," Ms. Holtzman said. She and other group
members suggested that the findings should be a
cautionary tale for intelligence agencies today...
...The documents also provide new information about
the case of Tscherim Soobzokov, a former SS officer
who was the subject of a much-publicized deportation
case in 1979 when he was living as an American citizen
in Paterson, N.J. He was charged with having falsified
his immigration application to conceal his SS service,
which ordinarily would have barred his entry. But the
charge was dropped when a C.I.A. document turned up
showing that he had disclosed his SS membership.
The newly declassified records show that he was
employed by the C.I.A. from 1952 to 1959 despite
"clear evidence of a war crimes record," said another
historian at the briefing, Richard Breitman of
American University...
The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend,
and indeed might be another enemy. It appears to me
that this possibility has been sadly overlooked in US
foreign policy during my entire life.
Yeah . . . but they got us to the Moon first . . .
Our Captured German Rocket Scientists Were Better Than Their Captured
German Rocket Scientists Maru
--Ronn! :)
"Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country
and two words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER
GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that
would be eliminated from schools too?"
-- Red Skelton
(Someone asked me to change my .sig quote back, so I did.)
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