Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign PolicyOpen Road Media, 10.6.2014 - 407 sivua 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. |
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Chosen Rare Minds | |
The Man at Box 1142 | |
The Eyes and Ears | |
Ratlines | |
Pipelines to the United States | |
The Politics of Liberation | |
Brunner and von Bolschwing | |
The End of Liberation | |
Acknowledgments | |
Source Notes | |
Selected Bibliography | |
CROWCASS | |
I Prefer to Remain Ignorant | |
Bloodstone 9 See That He Is Sent to the U S 10 Bare Fists and Brass Knuckles | |
Guerrillas for World War III | |
Any Bastard as Long as Hes AntiCommunist | |
Selected Archival Sources | |
Index | |
About the Author | |
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1948 top secret ACEN affairs agents Allen Dulles American anti-Communist assassination Barbie Berlin Bloodstone Boldyreff Bolschwing campaign camps Captive Nations chief CIA's clandestine operations cold war Committee Communist covert operations crimes CROWCASS defectors Displaced Persons Document Dragonovic Eastern Europe Eastern European émigré espionage exile Fascist FOIA forces Foreign Frank Wisner Gehlen Gehlen Organization German Grombach groups guerrilla Hilger immigration INSCOM INSCOM Dossier inside Intermarium Interrogation interview investigation Jews John July Kennan Klaus Barbie Labor Service Latvian leaders Lebed Liberation military murder National Security Nazi criminals NCFE Office organizations political warfare Poppe propaganda psychological warfare Radio Free Europe ratline records recruits refugee Report role Russian Ryan SANACC Skorzeny Soviet SS veterans Thayer troops U.S. Army U.S. government Ukrainian United USSR Vanagi Vlasov Army Waffen SS war crimes war criminals wartime Washington Wisner World York