From: NYT
WASHINGTON — 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.” MORE
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