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Six decades of cover-up and still going strong...
US intelligence was formed from Nazi war criminals
The Nazi war crimes apparatus was recruited lock, stock and barrel and
secretly redeployed worldwide
Part 1: Primed not to hear
by Jared Israel
[Posted 4 January 2004]
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Summary: Primed not to hear
The other day, someone called to make a donation to Emperor's Clothes,
and he asked, "What's this article you're going to post about the
origins of US and German Intelligence?"
And I said, "It's really shocking. The US foreign policy establishment
created both intelligence services by re-creating the Nazi war crimes
apparatus. Lock, stock and barrel."
I expected the caller to be amazed but I was the one who was amazed
because he wasn't.
"Oh that," he said. "Yeah, they were working with some Nazis. Everyone
knows that."
Notice that what he said is not what I said.
I have had virtually the same exchange with other people. I now
realize that this reaction is common because over the past 20 years we
have gradually been inoculated against hearing the truth about US
recruitment of Nazi war criminals. We have been fed fragments of
accurate information mixed with lies. We have been taught a
trivialized version of what happened. This is worse than not knowing
anything at all because when I say, "The US ferreted out and
reconstructed the Nazi war crimes apparatus which then *became* US
foreign intelligence and covert political operations", people hear,
"They were working with some Nazis."
In this series of articles I will show you that the picture you have
been shown of the relationship between US intelligence and Nazism
after World War II is deliberately off-focus. I will dissect a few
texts so you can see how you were lied to.
The truth is much worse than you think. Indeed, it is probably much
worse than what I presently think because the more research I do, the
worse it looks.
Let's start with the caller's statement, that US intelligence was
"working with some Nazis."
Why is this wrong? Because the phrase, working with, implies
equality of power. A slave owner does not "work with" his slaves. A
jailer does not "work with" his prisoners. And US intelligence
officers do not work with Nazis who lost the war and are wanted for
mass murder.
The Nazis recruited by US intelligence were wanted for the most
heinous crimes. Many were members of the SS, the Gestapo and the Nazi
Leadership Corps. The Nuremberg Tribunal, whose decisions were binding
under international law, defined these groups as parts of the worst
criminal conspiracy in history. The fact that a person had been a
member subjected that person to arrest. [1]
The people sought out for recruitment by US intelligence had been
involved in war crimes all over Europe, especially in the East. The US
was obliged under the Moscow Declaration to turn over these Nazis so
they could be tried in the countries where their crimes were
committed. [2]
People hunted for war crimes are in no position to bargain with those
supposedly hunting them. If the US "employed" these criminals, then
they were "employees" whose alternative was the hangman's noose. If US
operatives treated these Nazis super-well, even deferring to their
judgment - and they did - it was because they were told to do so by
their chain of command: [3]
[Excerpt from Dabringhaus testimony starts here]
"Barbie was so well in with my superiors that he did not ask me for
orders, but just told me what he was going to do. In fact he was so
well thought of that I was more like his chauffeur."
-- American college professor and former US intelligence officer
Erhard Dabringhaus, testifying at the trial of Klaus Barbie, the mass
murderer in charge of the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied Lyon. Dabringhaus
was Barbie's US handler in 1948.
[Excerpt from Dabringhaus testimony ends here]
In the following series of articles, I will show:
1) That starting before the end of World War II, the US Establishment
sought out and protected thousands of the worst Nazis, deliberately
re-creating the Nazi foreign war crimes apparatus on all levels; that
this included some people like Reinhard Gehlen (a top Nazi involved in
planning the murder of millions) and thousands of people like Klaus
Barbie (a hands-on killer).
2) That this was done despite opposition, including from within US
intelligence;
3) That this was done in clear violation of international law;
4) That the highly sophisticated US planners who ordered the
reconstruction and absorption of the Nazi murder machine knew this
would result in the Nazification of US intelligence including covert
political operations;
5) That a section of the US-created Nazi apparatus later became West
German intelligence (the BND);
6) That the US sent Nazi war criminals worldwide, thus Nazifying
intelligence and security forces in the Arab world, Latin America and
elsewhere.
One might like to believe that the Nazi-dominated cultures of these
organizations were transformed when the original Nazis retired or
died. But this is wishful thinking because of the way that all
institutions, and especially intelligence and security organizations,
operate. Secret and cliquish, these groups recruit young people loyal
to the institution's ideas and methods. New recruits are conditioned
to adopt the institution's culture.
Reinhard Gehlen was one of the most important Nazis recruited by the
US. As we shall see, as head of the Nazi army's intelligence corps in
the occupied part of the Soviet Union, he helped plan the slaughter of
*millions* of civilians and POWs. These killings were not militarily
necessary; indeed, they may have been militarily costly because they
increased the will to resist. Then why were these millions of
non-combatants murdered, mainly by deliberate starvation? Why did
General (later Field Marshal) Erich von Manstein tell the Wehrmacht,
the German Army, that the Soviet population *had to be* starved and
that nothing: [4]
...may, out of a sense of mistaken humaneness, be distributed to
prisoners or to the population - unless they are in the service of the
German Wehrmacht.
Why? Because they were supposedly subhuman: [5]
[Quote from Simpson starts here]
This was a war not only of conquest but of extermination. Entire
regions of the USSR were to be cleared of the existing Communist
apparatus and of Slavic "subhumans" to make way for settlement by
"Aryan pioneers."
...At least 100,000 Jews and Slavs were slain at Babi Yar, near Kiev
[Ukraine], and so on, and on, and on.
[Quote from Simpson ends here]
The Nazis recruited by the US believed in what they had done:
"'What is there to regret?'...[Klaus Barbie, the 'Butcher of Lyon']
told an interviewer after two decades in exile. 'I am a convinced Nazi
. . . and if I had to be born a thousand times, I would be a thousand
times what I have been.'" [6]
General Gehlen did not shed the world-view that enabled him to calmly
plan racist mass murder because he took the Swastika off his coat and
sewed on the Stars and Stripes. He and the many thousands of other
Nazis who had the same beliefs and the same willingness to slaughter
supposed 'subhumans' passed on their ideas: the most extreme racism
and antisemitism; belief that the supposedly superior 'races' must
rule over the supposedly inferior; contempt for ordinary people;
hatred for social change; a cult of the most extreme brutality.
The policy of Nazification, pursued by the US establishment starting
at the end of World War II, meant that though the Germans lost the
war, Nazis came to dominate powerful institutions in many countries.
This was truly a world catastrophe.
First the US Establishment preserved the deadly plague of Nazism
intact. Made it the dominant force in the secret services of the US
and Germany and spread the disease around the world.
Then for 35 years they buried the truth in classified documents.
Then, when the truth began to leak out, they launched a disinformation
campaign to indoctrinate people with an inaccurate and trivialized
'critique' of US-Nazi relations which blocked perception of what the
US Establishment had really done.
This disinformation campaign began in 1983 in response to a bombshell
that broke the silence about US recruitment of Nazi war criminals.
That bombshell was the interview with Erhard Dabringhaus on NBC TV
News, on February 5th.
I will deal with that in "Part 2: U.S. Intelligence takes Charge of
Investigating the Recruitment of Nazis by...U.S. Intelligence."
Jared Israel
Editor, Emperor's Clothes
Footnotes and Further Reading:
[1] Below are links to texts from the Nuremberg Tribunal. The first
link presents the reason for ruling that membership in the Gestapo
should be viewed as a crime:
http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/Gestapo6.htm
The second link is the ruling in which the Gestapo, SS and SD were
ruled to be criminal organizations. Thus, having been a member was
considered a crime.
http://www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com/trials/criminalorgs.html
This link does not mention the Nazi Leadership Corps as one of the
groups defined as criminal but apparently it was. See for example the
US government report that:
"The IMT [International Military Tribunal, i.e. Nuremberg Tribunal]
also convicted three of the groups, the Nazi leadership corps, the SS
(including the SD), and the Gestapo."
http://www.archives.gov/iwg/research_papers/trial_of_war_criminals_before_imt.html
[2] The Moscow Declaration obliged the US to hand over members of the
Nazis' foreign war crimes apparatus to the victim countries. General
Reinhard Gehlen should have been turned over to the USSR. Klaus Barbie
should have been turned over to France. And so on. Instead, thousands
of these men were shielded from prosecution. (Indeed, as we shall see
later, Barbie was used against France. In the case of Gehlen, the
*justification* has been that he was used against his former target
for racist mass murder, the USSR!)
Here is the relevant section of the Moscow Declaration:
"At the time of granting of any armistice to any government which may
be set up in Germany, those German officers and men and members of the
Nazi party who have been responsible for or have taken a consenting
part in the above atrocities, massacres and executions will be sent
back to the countries in which their abominable deeds were done in
order that they may be judged and punished according to the laws of
these liberated countries and of free governments which will be
erected therein. Lists will be compiled in all possible detail from
all these countries having regard especially to invaded parts of the
Soviet Union, to Poland and Czechoslovakia, to Yugoslavia and Greece
including Crete and other islands, to Norway, Denmark, Netherlands,
Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Italy."
http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/documents/moscwdecl.htm
[3] The Dabringhaus quote is from:
Manchester Guardian Weekly; May 24, 1987; Section: Pg. 7; Headline:
Barbie's American Links Exposed; Byline: By Paul Webster In Lyons
To learn more about Klaus Barbie, please see "Klaus Barbie, 'a model
of Third Reich savagery,'" at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/barbie-2.htm
[4] Simpson, Christopher. 1988. Blowback: America's recruitment of
Nazis and its effects on the Cold War. New York: Weidenfeld &
Nicolson. (p.14)
[5] Simpson, Christopher. 1988. Blowback: America's recruitment of
Nazis and its effects on the Cold War. New York: Weidenfeld &
Nicolson. (p.15)
[6] Newsweek; February 21, 1983, United States Edition; Section:
International; Pg. 40; Headline: France; The 'Butcher's' Tracks;
Byline: Steven Strasser With Scott Sullivan In Paris, Theodore Stanger
In Bonn, Barry Came In Rio De Janiero And Bureau Reports
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fwd//Starman
Fifteen years ago, another Bush's Doctrine was to arm Iraq and pit
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non-natives that Saddam and the Sunnis were doing to Kurds and
Shiites.
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One last truth, though it be more than you can bear. They don't
hate us because we are free. They hate us because they remember the
days that we trained and supported the authorities in their countries
that pulled their parents out of bed in the middle of the night and
hauled them away to never be seen again. We continue to do this
today, and we will only have temporary success until we face the full
truth and deal with it. ~ Randy R. Cox
Iraq: Quicksand & Blood
http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=31322&lang=en
George W. Bush and his top advisers learned little from the
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peasant uprisings in Central America in the '80s, a set of lessons the
Bush administration is now trying to apply to the violent resistance
in Iraq.
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the U.S. government can defeat guerrilla movements if it is willing to
back a local power structure, no matter how repulsive, and if
Washington is ready to tolerate gross human rights abuses. In Central
America in the '80s, those tactics included genocide against hundreds
of Mayan villages in Guatemala's highlands and the torture, rape and
murder of thousands of young political activists throughout the
region.