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Date: Sun Jan 4, 2004 10:12 am
Subject: US Intelligence was formed from Nazi Criminals - Far
Worse than we were Told!
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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. It's much worse than we were
told.
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
* Continued in Part Two *
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* Footnotes and Further Reading
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[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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