CIA Protected Nazi War Criminals

Talk about old news! That various parts of the U.S. government de-Nazified and gave a clean bill of health to a number of Nazis was known as early as 1948, fifty-four years ago.

i can understand your being astonished , perhaps even being dismayed at the connection between former nazis (serving in the germen government post WW II) and american government entities - perhaps it would be more accurate to say western allied governments [..]

perhaps i should note that those nazi officials and also some generals did not fall into the category of major war-criminals - at least not at that time .
they were mainly considered 'cogs in the wheel '.

What strikes me as most important about American relations with Hitler is not just that some of our leading elites armed and funded his rise to power and invested in his military industrial complex and even fueled his side throghout the war, but these same corporations and descendants have pulled off the same "mistake" repeatedly since. Saddam and bin Laden being the two most current examples of madmen armed and funded by Americans. There's a pattern in history of Americans arming known madmen and profiting off the blowback. It's a practice that will continue until we face up to the betrayal and put an end to it. There were better candidates than Hitler or Saddam for America to back.

Of course OmSiig gotta ignore the substance of the Dulles article.

Om Sig- You can't ignore the substance of the Dulles Article. Why, that's as bad as ignoring the substance of the idiocy peddled with regard to the etiology of AIDS. You do remember, I am sure, the furious efforts of the more rabid members of the homosexual community to show that AIDS was created by American Doctors in the laboratory, thus showing that the US government, as hateful as always, wanted to destroy innocent people in the name of outdated religious beliefs.

Now that the evidence has clearly shown that the HIV virus originated in Africa at least as early as the late fifties whereas the American Doctors who supposedly created the Virus were suspected to have designed it in the early eighties, the purveyors of that myth are flummoxed.

And as for the Dulles Book, On Sig, I read an old copy and threw it in the circular file along with the book that FDR had set up Pearl Harbor. I class this unproven and unprovable garbage with the tales of people who claim they have been kidnapped by aliens.

nimh wrote :
"And Hamburger, Eichmann was no mere "cog in the wheel"...

he sure was not . i never included eichmann as a "cog in the wheel" !
while of course i'm not sure , i doubt that dr adenauer would have considered eichmann just a cog in the wheel . perhaps we will learn more about this at some time , and it may turn out that i am wrong .

The United States was aware that West Germany held information on the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann in the 1950s, but chose to keep the matter secret, fearing that the arrest of the Nazi fugitive might lead to embarrassing revelations about links between senior German officials and other Nazis.

blueflame1 wrote:

What strikes me as most important about American relations with Hitler is not just that some of our leading elites armed and funded his rise to power and invested in his military industrial complex and even fueled his side throghout the war, but these same corporations and descendants have pulled off the same "mistake" repeatedly since. Saddam and bin Laden being the two most current examples of madmen armed and funded by Americans. There's a pattern in history of Americans arming known madmen and profiting off the blowback. It's a practice that will continue until we face up to the betrayal and put an end to it. There were better candidates than Hitler or Saddam for America to back.

So, Blueflame, you are suggesting that we should put an end to the Iranian uprising now instead of supporting the government there?

Yes, nimh, It may have happened but not in the way it is presented and that is all of the difference, isn' t it?

Why, if you are right, nimh,

the World Court at the Hague must be immediately convened to try those in the CIA who did those terrible things. Have you heard when the trials are beginning?

Why wouldn't the CIA protect Eichman, Barbie and Mengele? Dulles, Rockefeller and others had been doing business with these nazis for years and continued after the war. Mengele had long been funded by Rockefeller including Mengele's experiments in the 30s. Americans like Henry Ford, Dupont, Rockefeller and Walker/Bush had been at the forefront of the American eugenics movement for decades before Hitler wrote Mein Kampf and his master race theories found common ground with them. Hitler quoted passages from Henry Ford's book The International Jew and had stacks of Ford's book outside his office so his visters could take one home. Hitler had Ford's portrait hanging on the wall behind his desk. When Hitler's campaign was floundering and broke the Dulles brothers stepped in and led the bankers who paid off Hitler's debts, armed his thugs and bankrolled his campaign. Decades later Poppy Bush and company pulled the same stunt with Saddam and hired bin Laden too. It's what these war merchants do. Diviide and conquer, arm all sides and turn the people into killing machines.

But, Mr.Nimh, there must be something the peace-loving nations of the world can do. How can the CIA be allowed to continue to behave like that?

BernardR wrote:

But, Mr.Nimh, there must be something the peace-loving nations of the world can do. How can the CIA be allowed to continue to behave like that?

What in heavens name are you on about? This article and thread are about something that happened sixty years ago!

I dont get it. Whats the big deal about owning up about something your country's intelligence service did sixty years ago, and has now itself released the documents about?