{"id":141209,"date":"2014-10-27T14:50:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=141209"},"modified":"2014-10-27T14:50:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T14:50:23","slug":"cold-war-u-s-spy-agencies-used-1000-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/cold-war-u-s-spy-agencies-used-1000-nazis\/","title":{"rendered":"In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the decades after World War II<\/a>, the C.I.A.<\/a> and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government\u2019s ties to some still living in America, newly disclosed records and interviews show.<\/p>\n

At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, law enforcement and intelligence leaders like J. Edgar Hoover<\/a> at the F.B.I.<\/a> and Allen Dulles at the C.I.A. aggressively recruited onetime Nazis of all ranks as secret, anti-Soviet \u201cassets,\u201d declassified records show. They believed the ex-Nazis\u2019 intelligence value against the Russians outweighed what one official called \u201cmoral lapses\u201d in their service to the Third Reich.<\/p>\n

The agency hired one former SS officer as a spy in the 1950s, for instance, even after concluding he was probably guilty of \u201cminor war crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019 massacre of tens of thousands of Jews in Lithuania, according to a government official.<\/p>\n

Evidence of the government\u2019s links to Nazi spies began emerging publicly in the 1970s. But thousands of records from declassified files, Freedom of Information Act requests and other sources, together with interviews with scores of current and former government officials, show that the government\u2019s recruitment of Nazis ran far deeper than previously known and that officials sought to conceal those ties for at least a half-century after the war.<\/p>\n

In 1980, F.B.I. officials refused to tell even the Justice Department\u2019s own Nazi hunters<\/a> what they knew about 16 suspected Nazis living in the United States.<\/p>\n

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Read more http:\/\/www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the decades after World War II, the C.I.A. and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government\u2019s ties to some still living in America, newly disclosed records and interviews show. At the height of the Cold War […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-141209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}