| To fight the USSR, the Americans hired “Rippers from Auschwitz” Yesterday an unusual meeting of the CIA leadership and a special group of the US Congress took place in Langley. It was dedicated to the declassification of documents about connections between American intelligence and the Nazis. As the CIA stated, "all materials not yet declassified that relate to U.S. intelligence ties to former Nazis will be examined with fresh eyes."
A week ago, the Jewish rights group Anti-Defamation League accused the CIA of refusing to “declassify thousands of documents on Nazi war criminals” and called for it to do so “as required by law.” In 1999, the United States passed a law on the publication of documents on Nazi war crimes. However, the CIA agreed to declassify only documents about individuals proven guilty of war crimes. Referring to the law allowing not to disclose sources and methods of work, the CIA did not advertise operations in which former Nazis took part.
The US National Archives has already removed the classification of secrecy from eight million pages of documents on the post-war cooperation of American intelligence services with Nazi criminals. These documents are divided into three groups. The first contains “FBI files” about Germans who participated in the mass extermination of Jews, and after moving to the United States, they were used by American intelligence. Here are also documents on the cooperation of American corporations with companies of the Third Reich.
The second group - the “Gehlen folders” - contains evidence of the activities of West German intelligence, which was headed by Reinhardt Gehlen (1902-1979) and his people soon after the war. Until 1956, this structure (later known as the BND) was called the intelligence service of Gehlen, a former Wehrmacht military intelligence general on the Eastern Front. Gehlen was considered an expert on the USSR, and the Americans appreciated his knowledge.
The third group - “CIA folders” - contains materials on the use of Nazi war criminals by American intelligence services in activities directed against the USSR during the Cold War. After 1945, five people who had previously been assistants to SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann worked for the CIA. He headed the "Jewish Department" of the Reich Security Office and was responsible for the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" in Europe. He was called the “Ripper of Auschwitz” - it was he who adjusted the work of this death factory.
Most recently - on January 27 - in Auschwitz, leaders of many countries, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, celebrated the 60th anniversary of the liberation of this camp by Soviet troops. As it turns out, after the war, the CIA recruited Eichmann into the Nazi service for the war against the USSR.
Eichmann himself hid in Argentina after 1945 under the name Ricardo Clemente. On May 11, 1960, he was tracked down by agents of the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, kidnapped and secretly taken to Israel. Adolf Eichmann was put on trial and hanged on May 31, 1961. Andrey ZLOBIN |
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