Blowback : America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy
The true story of how US intelligence organizations employed Nazi war criminals in clandestine warfare and propaganda against the USSR, anticolonial revolutionaries, and progressive movements worldwide that were claimed to be Soviet pawns; includes a new, previously suppressed introduction by the author on the CIA's declassification of Nazi-related records 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
eBook, English, 2014
Open Road Media, 2014
History
1 online resource
9781306805629, 9781497623064, 1306805627, 1497623065
880686170
Print version:
Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Series Introduction; Introduction; Prologue; 1. A Discreet Silence; 2. Slaughter on the Eastern Front; 3. "Chosen, Rare Minds"; 4. The Man at Box 1142; 5. The Eyes and Ears; 6. CROWCASS; 7. "I ... Prefer to Remain Ignorant"; 8. Bloodstone; 9. "See That He Is Sent to the U.S. ... "; 10. Bare Fists and Brass Knuckles; 11. Guerrillas for World War III; 12. "Any Bastard as Long as He's Anti-Communist"; 13. Ratlines; 14. Pipelines to the United States; 15. The Politics of "Liberation"; 16. Brunner and von Bolschwing; 17. The End of "Liberation." AcknowledgmentsSource Notes; Selected Bibliography; Selected Archival Sources; Index; About the Author; Copyright Page