Download or read book Hitler s Shadow written by Richard Breitman and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is based on findings from newly-declassified decades-old Army and CIA records released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act of 1998. These records were processed and reviewed by the National Archives-led Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group. The report highlights materials opened under the Act, in addition to records that were previously opened but had not been mined by historians and researchers, including records from the Office of Strategic Services (a CIA predecessor), dossiers of the Army Staff's Intelligence Records of the Investigative Records Repository, State Dept. records, and files of the Navy Judge Advocate General. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Hitler s Shadow written by Richard Breitman and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hitler s Shadow Nazi War Criminals U S Intelligence and the Cold War written by National National Archives and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of World War II, Allied armies recovered a large portion of the written or filmed evidence of the Holocaust and other forms of Nazi persecution. Allied prosecutors used newly found records in numerous war crimes trials. Governments released many related documents regarding war criminals during the second half of the 20th century. A small segment of American-held documents from Nazi Germany or about Nazi officials and Nazi collaborators, however, remained classified into the 21st century because of government restrictions on the release of intelligence-related records. Approximately 8 million pages of documents declassified in the United States under the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act added significantly to our knowledge of wartime Nazi crimes and the postwar fate of suspected war criminals. A 2004 U.S. Government report by a team of independent historians working with the government's Nazi War Criminal Records Interagency Working Group (IWG), entitled U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, highlighted some of the new information; it appeared with revisions as a 2005 book.1 Our 2010 report serves as an addendum to U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis; it draws upon additional documents declassified since then. The latest CIA and Army files have: evidence of war crimes and about the wartime activities of war criminals; postwar documents on the search for or prosecution of war criminals; documents about the escape of war criminals; documents about the Allied protection or use of Nazi war criminals; and documents about the postwar political activities of war criminals. None of the declassified documents conveys a complete story in itself; to make sense of this evidence, we have also drawn on older documents and published works.
Download or read book U S Intelligence and the Nazis written by Richard Breitman and published by National Archives Trust Fund Board National Archives and Rec. This book was released on 2004 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the recent and unprecedented declassification of thousands of US intelligence files.
Download or read book U S Intelligence and the Nazis written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a direct result of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Drawing upon many documents declassified under this law, the authors demonstrate what US intelligence agencies learned about Nazi crimes during World War II and about the nature of Nazi intelligence agencies' role in the Holocaust. It examines how some U.S. corporations found ways to profit from Nazi Germany's expropriation of the property of German Jews. This book also reveals startling new details on the Cold War connections between the US government and Hitler's former officers. At a time when intelligence successes and failures are at the center of public discussion, U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis also provides an unprecedented inside look at how intelligence agencies function during war and peacetime.
Download or read book Tales from Spandau written by Norman J. W. Goda and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book Blowback written by Christopher Simpson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing account of a dark “chapter in U.S. Cold War history . . . to help the anti-Soviet aims of American intelligence and national security agencies” (Library Journal). Even before the final shots of World War II were fired, another war began—a cold war that pitted the United States against its former ally, the Soviet Union. As the Soviets consolidated power in Eastern Europe, the CIA scrambled to gain the upper hand against new enemies worldwide. To this end, senior officials at the CIA, National Security Council, and other elements of the emerging US national security state turned to thousands of former Nazis, Waffen Secret Service, and Nazi collaborators for propaganda, psychological warfare, and military operations. Many new recruits were clearly responsible for the deaths of countless innocents as part of Adolph Hitler’s “Final Solution,” yet were whitewashed and claimed to be valuable intelligence assets. Unrepentant mass murderers were secretly accepted into the American fold, their crimes forgotten and forgiven with the willing complicity of the US government. Blowback is the first thorough, scholarly study of the US government’s extensive recruitment of Nazis and fascist collaborators right after the war. Although others have approached the topic since, Simpson’s book remains the essential starting point. The author demonstrates how this secret policy of collaboration only served to intensify the Cold War and has had lasting detrimental effects on the American government and society that endure to this day.
Download or read book Fugitives written by Danny Orbach and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shrouded in government secrecy, clouded by myths and propaganda, the enigmatic tale of Nazi fugitives in the early Cold War has never been properly told—until now. In the aftermath of WWII, the victorious Allies vowed to hunt Nazi war criminals “to the ends of the earth.” Yet many slipped away to the four corners of the world or were shielded by the Western Allies in exchange for cooperation. Most prominently, Reinhard Gehlen, the founder of West Germany's foreign intelligence service, welcomed SS operatives into the fold. This shortsighted decision nearly brought his cherished service down, as the KGB found his Nazi operatives easy to turn, while judiciously exposing them to threaten the very legitimacy of the Bonn Government. However, Gehlen was hardly alone in the excessive importance he placed on the supposed capabilities of former Nazi agents; his American sponsors did much the same in the early years of the Cold War. Other Nazi fugitives became freelance arms traffickers, spies, and covert operators, playing a crucial role in the clandestine struggle between the superpowers. From posh German restaurants, smuggler-infested Yugoslav ports, Damascene safehouses, Egyptian country clubs, and fascist holdouts in Franco's Spain, Nazi spies created a chaotic network of influence and information. This network was tapped by both America and the USSR, as well as by the West German, French, and Israeli secret services. Indeed, just as Gehlen and his U.S sponsors attached excessive importance to Nazi agents, so too did almost all other state and non-state actors, adding a combustible ingredient to the Cold War covert struggle. Shrouded in government secrecy, clouded by myths and propaganda, the tangled and often paradoxical tale of these Nazi fugitives and operatives has never been properly told—until now.
Download or read book The Nazis Next Door written by Eric Lichtblau and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory secret history of how America became home to thousands of Nazi war criminals after World War II, many of whom were brought here by the OSS and CIA--by the New York Times reporter who broke the story and who has interviewed dozens of agents for the first time.
Download or read book Ratline written by Peter Levenda and published by Nicolas-Hays, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ratline is the documented history about the mechanisms by which thousands of other Nazi war criminals fled to the remotest parts of the globe—including quite possibly Adolf Hitler. It is a story involving Soviet spies, Nazi priests, and a network of Catholic monasteries and safe houses known as the ratline. The name of one priest in particular, Monsignor Draganovic, was discovered by the author in a diary found in Indonesia. Why would this name turn up in a document written in a spidery German hand in a remote island in Indonesia? As famed author Peter Levenda began his research, more information came to light: In December of 2009, it was revealed that the skull the Russians claimed was Hitler’s—salvaged from the bunker in 1945—was not that of Hitler! In 2010, files from the Office of Special Investigations of the Justice Department were declassified, revealing a history of American intelligence providing cover for Nazi war criminals. The mystery deepened, and the author returned to his own roots hunting Nazis in North America, South America and Europe. He revisited old contacts, made some new ones, and gradually the explosive story was revealed: there is no forensic evidence to prove that Adolf Hitler died in the bunker in April 1945!
Download or read book Spies and Assassins written by Paul Dawson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPIES & ASSASSINS: COLD WAR SPIES & NAZI WAR CRIMINALS is a spy thriller, a novelization of the true story of the U.S. intelligence agencies hiring fugitive Nazi war criminals as agents or informants from the 1940's, in Europe, to the 1980s in South America. In the secretive world of counter-intelligence, CIA agent Max Dreyfuss is forced to collaborate in a killing game of intrigue with bad-to-the-bone psychopaths like fugitive Nazi Klaus Barbie, terrorist arch-villains, and murdering narco-traffickers. Dreyfuss and Barbie work as CIA agents in Bolivia -- spying, fighting, and killing leftists or Communists including revolutionary-Marxist Che Guevara. SPIES & ASSASSINS by Paul Dawson is an international, action-packed espionage thriller, an action-adventure that races with nail-biting suspense from Europe to South America. Dr. Dawson earned a Ph.D. in psychology from The New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty, New York City. Dr. Dawson has been chief psychologist of a state prison system, clinical psychologist in mental hospitals, clinics and in private practice. Dr. Dawson has written over 20 books including: ANGELINA JOLIE PSYCHOANALYZED; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; BPD RECOVERY; CAMPUS KILLER'S SECRET OBSESSION; GRACE KELLY IN PSYCHOTHERAPY; HOW TO GET SOBER; JODI ARIAS CONFIDENTIAL; JOHNNY DEPP DIAGNOSED; MANSON INTERVIEWS RAW; MARILYN MONROE DIAGNOSED; MASKS of an AMERICAN PSYCHO; MASKS OF A LADY KILLER; MASKS of PREDATORS; MASKS of SEX PREDATORS; MASKS of TED BUNDY; MY PRINCESS DIANA THERAPY SESSIONS; MY TED BUNDY INTERVIEWS RAW!; NARCOTERRORIST PSYCHOPATHS; PRINCESS DIANA DIAGNOSED; PSYCHOLOGY of MEN WHO ABUSE WOMEN; PSYCHOPATHS; ROCK STARS DIAGNOSED; SEX CRIMES; SPIRITUAL THERAPY; THE MASKS OF KARLA HOMOLKA.
Download or read book CIA Declassified written by Central Intelligence Agency and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-09 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a 760 page reproduction of preserved, declassified reference documents, from archives, created by the Central Intelligence Agency and published in the Second Release of Name Files Under the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Disclosure Acts, ca. 1981 - ca. 2002. The documents in this volume are focused on the CIA's investigation of Adolf Hitler and include analysis of his behavior, speech patterns, education, historical background, medical reports, and various activities that were conducted. This series consists of biographies, correspondence, reports, memorandums, messages, telegrams, routing slips, publications, dispatches, translations, transcripts, legislative records, legal documents, statements, lists, abstracts, excerpts, clippings, medical records, vouchers, outlines, and other records. Most of the materials relate to people in one, or both, of two categories: Axis personnel accused of committing war crimes, or of belonging to criminal organizations, during World War II; and former Axis personnel who were used by the U.S. or West Germany as intelligence sources during the Cold War. The series also includes files relating to people who were never accused of war crimes or of belonging to criminal organizations, but who may have been associated with war crimes as victims, witnesses, investigators, sources, or officials.Most of the records relate to the activities that brought the people to the attention or employ of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or the West German Federal Intelligence Service (the Bundesnachrichtendienst or BND). The records provide details about the relationship between the CIA and the BND; Nazi and Soviet Union intelligence operations; CIA and BND intelligence operations aimed at Albania, Austria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Latvia, Slovakia, and the Soviet Union; Communist, anti-Communist, and nationalist movements in Albania, Byelorussia, Estonia, Latvia, and Slovakia; the activities of Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Czechoslovakian, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, and Yugoslavian �migr� communities in the U.S. and other countries; political and economic developments in Austria and West Germany; political developments in the Middle East; policies and personnel of the Vatican; prisoner exchanges between East Germany and West Germany; inter-party rivalries, ultranationalist movements, and public debates about rearmament and civilian use of atomic energy in Japan; CIA policies for recruiting, paying, debriefing, evaluating, dismissing, and compensating the heirs of, foreign personnel used as intelligence sources; and how the CIA responded when it learned of, or was forced to confront, the criminal pasts of some of its agents and sources.
Download or read book The Shadow War Against Hitler written by Christof Mauch and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an extensive analysis of OSS records, including the vast trove of records released by the CIA in the 1980s and '90s, as well as a new set of interviews with OSS veterans conducted by the author and a team of American scholars from 1995 to 1997, The Shadow War Against Hitler tells the full story of America's far-flung secret intelligence apparatus during World War II. Filled with revelations and replete with telling detail, this riveting book lifts the curtain on the United States' secret intelligence operations in the war against Nazi Germany.
Download or read book German Foreign Intelligence from Hitler s War to the Cold War written by Robert Hutchinson and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Allies' post-war analyses of the Nazis' defeat, the "weakness and incompetence" of the German intelligence services figured prominently. And how could it have been otherwise, when they worked at the whim of a regime in the grip of "ignorant maniacs"? But what if, Robert Hutchinson asks, the worldviews of the intelligence services and the "ignorant maniacs" aligned more closely than these analyses—and subsequent studies—assumed? What if the reports of the German foreign intelligence services, rather than being dismissed by ideologues who "knew better," instead served to reinforce the National Socialist worldview? Returning to these reports, examining the information on enemy nations that was gathered, processed, and presented to leaders in the Nazi state, Hutchinson's study reveals the consequences of the politicization of German intelligence during the war—as well as the persistence of ingrained prejudices among the intelligence services' Cold War successors. Closer scrutiny of underutilized and unpublished reports shows how during the World War II the German intelligence services supported widely-held assumptions among the Nazi elite that Britain was politically and morally bankrupt, that the Soviet Union was tottering militarily and racially inferior, and that the United States' vast economic potential was undermined by political, cultural, and racial degeneration. Furthermore, Hutchinson argues, these distortions continued as German intelligence veterans parlayed their supposed expertise on the Soviet Union into positions of prominence in Western intelligence in the early years of the Cold War. With its unique insights into the impact of ideology on wartime and post-war intelligence, his book raises important questions not only about how intelligence reports can influence policy decisions, but also about the subjective nature of intelligence gathering itself.
Download or read book Hitler s American Friends written by Bradley W. Hart and published by Thomas Dunne Books. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book examining the strange terrain of Nazi sympathizers, nonintervention campaigners and other voices in America who advocated on behalf of Nazi Germany in the years before World War II. Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular truth behind this warm nostalgia: until the attack on Pearl Harbor, America was deeply, dangerously divided. Bradley W. Hart's Hitler's American Friends exposes the homegrown antagonists who sought to protect and promote Hitler, leave Europeans (and especially European Jews) to fend for themselves, and elevate the Nazi regime. Some of these friends were Americans of German heritage who joined the Bund, whose leadership dreamed of installing a stateside Führer. Some were as bizarre and hair-raising as the Silver Shirt Legion, run by an eccentric who claimed that Hitler fulfilled a religious prophesy. Some were Midwestern Catholics like Father Charles Coughlin, an early right-wing radio star who broadcast anti-Semitic tirades. They were even members of Congress who used their franking privilege—sending mail at cost to American taxpayers—to distribute German propaganda. And celebrity pilot Charles Lindbergh ended up speaking for them all at the America First Committee. We try to tell ourselves it couldn't happen here, but Americans are not immune to the lure of fascism. Hitler's American Friends is a powerful look at how the forces of evil manipulate ordinary people, how we stepped back from the ledge, and the disturbing ease with which we could return to it.
Download or read book Blowback written by Christopher Simpson and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at how U.S. government officials secretly used, shielded, and supported Nazi War criminals
Download or read book Operation Paperclip written by Annie Jacobsen and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51 In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States. Many of these men were accused of war crimes, and others had stood trial at Nuremberg; one was convicted of mass murder and slavery. They were also directly responsible for major advances in rocketry, medical treatments, and the U.S. space program. Was Operation Paperclip a moral outrage, or did it help America win the Cold War? Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, and with access to German archival documents (including previously unseen papers made available by direct descendants of the Third Reich's ranking members), files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and dossiers discovered in government archives and at Harvard University, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into a startling, complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secret of the twentieth century. In this definitive, controversial look at one of America's most strategic, and disturbing, government programs, Jacobsen shows just how dark government can get in the name of national security.
