| Tango01 | 29 Oct 2014 11:18 p.m. PST |
"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's ties to some still living in America, newly disclosed records and interviews show.
At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, law enforcement and intelligence leaders like J. Edgar Hoover at the F.B.I. and Allen Dulles at the C.I.A. aggressively recruited onetime Nazis of all ranks as secret, anti-Soviet "assets," declassified records show. They believed the ex-Nazis' intelligence value against the Russians outweighed what one official called "moral lapses" in their service to the Third Reich.
The agency hired one former SS officer as a spy in the 1950s, for instance, even after concluding he was probably guilty of "minor war crimes."…"
Full article here
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| Pete Melvin | 30 Oct 2014 3:02 a.m. PST |
And in other news, bears defecate in the woods. Sport at 11. |
 Legion 4   | 30 Oct 2014 7:35 a.m. PST |
Yeah … again, no surprise … on the Nazi spies or bears … for that matter …  |
| Cyrus the Great | 30 Oct 2014 8:29 a.m. PST |
They were recruited because it was determined they had the "Reich stuff"! |
| Cold Steel | 30 Oct 2014 8:41 a.m. PST |
Old news. When bad guys have the intell you need, you have to deal with bad guys. There aren't a whole lot of police informants who are also members of the church choir either. |
| Legion 4 | 30 Oct 2014 10:24 a.m. PST |
LOL Cyrus !!!!  And yes as Cold Steel noted, many times when it comes to intel, you are not dealing with choir boys … usually just the opposite … |
| Mako11 | 30 Oct 2014 10:45 a.m. PST |
Well, yea. Our entire space program was built on it, as well as much of our air force, so…… |
| Tango01 | 30 Oct 2014 11:08 a.m. PST |
Well… all that become from the "Cold War" are old stuff! (smile).
I was surprised for the amount of nazis. Amicalement
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| HistoryPhD | 30 Oct 2014 11:23 a.m. PST |
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. If it wasn't for "former" Nazis, West Germany would never have had an Army, Air Force, or Navy. Or it's own intelligence service, for that matter. |
| capncarp | 01 Nov 2014 6:12 p.m. PST |
Needless to say, other Axis leftovers were given a pass in exchange for the valuable data their bio/chemical warfare experiments generated. Unit 731's head wasn't tried for the massive war crimes he and his unit perpetrated on the Chinese civilians, and the Russian and US POWs that fell in to their hands. Considering what they did during the war would have made Joseph Mengele faint, I certainly hope that information was worth it. |
| Legion 4 | 01 Nov 2014 9:05 p.m. PST |
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| cosmicbank | 01 Nov 2014 9:13 p.m. PST |
Wow the (any bodies) Government uses bad guys who knew. I did not know that about bears. |
adds a tower to his 15mm trainyard.
