NEW YORK – Released new records reveal details on how responsible for u.s. intelligence used and protected some Nazi postwar Gestapo agents, followed by the Holocaust administrator Adolf Eichmann and relied on a criminal war suspected Ukraine living in New York City in an attempt to disrupt the Soviet Union, according to a report to the Congress obtained by the Associated Press.
The report, entitled "Hitler's Shadow: the U.S. Intelligence and the cold war, Nazi war criminals" was written by historians employed by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. He was sent to Congress late Thursday.
The report delivers a trove unprecedented records on individuals and covert operations that the CIA had been persuaded to declassify and 1 million digitized over army intelligence files which had long been inaccessible.
"The CIA records give us a better idea of the movement of Nazi war criminals in the post-war period." Records of the army are bulky and is going to be keeping people busy for many years, said Richard Breitman, American University in Washington, D.C., who co-authored the report with Norman J.W. Goda, of the University of Florida.
The CIA spokesman George Little said Friday: "The CIA at no time had a policy or program to protect Nazi war criminals, or to help justice leak their actions during the war." The Agency has worked for decades with Office of special investigations of the Department of justice. »
Records were put at the disposal of the Nazi War Crimes disclosure 1998 law one of the most ambitious and extensive Federal Government efforts to expose its own secrets.
The papers include correspondence, documents juridiques, extracts, press clippings, medical records and supporting documents. They illuminate the activities and the post-war fate of some of the most high-profile suspected Nazi war criminals.
One of the chapters of the report deals explicitly how the Americans used Gestapo police, including Rudolf Mildner, after the war.
Mildner oversaw security to the Denmark in 1943 when most 8000 Jews in the country have commissioned arrested and deported to Auschwitz - concentration camp even though they were rescued after Danish resistance leaders have been informed. The army detained Mildner and kept him from landing in the hands of war crimes investigators because his knowledge of Communist subversion was deemed useful.
"Will the army use Gestapo officials against communists was more important or more than what we had seen, even if there are no prominent or large case Klaus Barbie, said Breitman, referring to the infamous"Boucher de Lyon"U.S. intelligence who worked in the post-war period."
Later, Mildner escaped in Argentina, where he met Eichmann, who had also fled from Europe to the South American country.
Newly disclosed records answer a few questions about Eichmann movements until he was abducted by Israeli intelligence in 1960 and spirited to be prosecuted for their crimes, the report said.
"For the most recent declassifications American perform some small openings," the report said. "They show what Western know Eichmann crime and its post-war movement." No leakage of Eichmann-assisted us intelligence agency or simply allowed him to hide Argentina safely. »
The report details also important use of Nazi collaborators by the CIA during the cold war.
In an attempt to disrupt the USSR's penetration into Ukraine, the agency turned to Nazi nationalists affiliates including Mykola Lebed, who led a paramilitary organization led ethnic cleansing policy during the war. It was relocated to New York in 1948, and its relationship with the CIA "lasted the entire length of the cold war", the report says.
Although it has more later publicly identified by federal investigators as a possible war criminal, he was never brought to justice.
The CIA "armored Lebed refusing any connection between Lebed and the Nazis and stating that it was a Ukrainian freedom fighter" said the report.
"CIA concluded that Lebed activities on behalf of the American intelligence were such invaluable that CIDA could ill afford to lose as an asset," according to a CIA 2003 document seen by the AP. The CIA has prevented his expulsion.
"Tireless efforts on behalf of Ukrainian nationalism, Lebed remains one of the oldest contacts the Agency until his death in 1998," said the document.
Nazi hunters and legislators have long raised questions about the Government knew and his involvement with the war during the cold war criminals.
Elizabeth Holtzman, a former Democratic Congresswoman from New York who championed the disclosure of Nazi files, said that each subsequent update has added to the history folder.
"It is difficult and in some respects shameful chapter in American history," Holtzman said. "" "" Known to the public, and I think it is a mark of governmental courage and national courage during this time, these documents and said: 'We want to learn the truth about what our Government' and do so in a professional and serious manner. »
The Nazi war crimes Disclosure Act allowed far more than 8 million being declassified documents; a landmark book 2005 on "US intelligence and the Nazis" partly written by Breitman and Goda. and a final report to Congress. The Interagency Working Group overseeing the project has been dissolved in 2007, but his work has been extended by the Federal legislator as documents even more continued to be discovered and released.
These include files more than 1,000 people and files on more than 50 covert operations that CIA was presented at the national archives.
A second batch of files, many of them from the army counterintelligence, could not be read until a new system capable of managing terabytes of information has been developed, said William h. Cunliffe, higher than the national archives, archivist who oversaw the decommissioning project.
Yet more records are always hidden.
Special hunting Nazi unit of the u.s. Department of justice, Bureau of special investigations, was merged with another Office in March to create special litigation section and human rights. The Office of special investigations is exempt under the Nazi war crimes Disclosure Act to protect the investigations and prosecutions.
Included files that it generated or folders of interest that he reported to other organizations.
In 2007, the OSI had waived more than 23,000 pages according to the latest estimates available. He was excluded from over 18,000.
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