U.S. Employed Nazis As Spies
[su_right_ad]During the post-WWII Cold War the United States employed at least one thousand Nazis as spies and informants, and concealed the government’s ties to them as recently as the 1990’s.
At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, law enforcement and intelligence leaders like J. Edgar Hoover at the F.B.I. and Allen Dulles at the C.I.A. aggressively recruited onetime Nazis of all ranks as secret, anti-Soviet “assets,” declassified records show. They believed the ex-Nazis’ intelligence value against the Russians outweighed what one official called “moral lapses” in their service to the Third Reich.
The agency hired one former SS officer as a spy in the 1950s, for instance, even after concluding he was probably guilty of “minor war crimes.”
And in 1994, a lawyer with the C.I.A. pressured prosecutors to drop an investigation into an ex-spy outside Boston implicated in the Nazis’ massacre of tens of thousands of Jews in Lithuania, according to a government official.[su_csky_ad]
rg9rts October 27th, 2014 at 9:12 am
Why the surprise… SOP Look at out space program
neworleans878 October 27th, 2014 at 10:23 am
No kidding. In Huntsville, Alabama, German was the second language…almost.
mea_mark October 27th, 2014 at 9:16 am
Thank you republicans. Why did we have to bring so many of them to the states though and settle them around Detroit? All they have done is spread throughout the US and formed white-supremacist groups, mainly in the red states to the south now.
fancypants October 27th, 2014 at 9:54 am
The agency hired one former SS officer as a spy in the 1950s, for instance, even after concluding he was probably guilty of “minor war crimes.”
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Its like saying Charles manson was probably not a good party host for the wealthy
tiredoftea October 27th, 2014 at 12:29 pm
J. Edgar adored their sense of duty to country, questionable morality and cross dressing parties.
Obewon October 27th, 2014 at 2:38 pm
Dr. Wernher von Braun? Operation Paperclip employed many former Nazi’s including NASA’s most important space-race scientist. http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/bio.html