U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis

✍ Scribed by Richard Breitman, Norman J. W. Goda, Timothy Naftali, Robert Wolfe

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 509
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

At a time when intelligence successes and failures are at the center of public discussion, this book provides an unprecedented inside look at how intelligence agencies function during war and peacetime. As the direct result of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, the volume draws upon many documents declassified under this law to reveal what U.S. 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. The work also reveals startling new details on the Cold War connections between the U.S. government and Hitler's former officers.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
U.S. INTELLIGENCE AND THE NAZIS......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
Notes......Page 23
1 OSS Knowledge of the Holocaust......Page 25
The Diplomatic Pouches......Page 27
Gonzalo Montt Rivas......Page 29
Early OSS Sources......Page 34
Allen Dulles in Switzerland......Page 38
The Extermination Camps: Allied Information and Conclusions......Page 44
Notes......Page 52
The State Department and the Bermuda Conference......Page 59
The International Committee of the Red Cross......Page 61
“Dogwood” and Anti-Nazi Germans......Page 63
The Brand Mission......Page 68
The OSS and the Jewish Agency for Palestine......Page 72
Jewish Agency for Palestine War Crimes Documentation......Page 78
Notes......Page 81
The “Selection” of Elite Czech Children......Page 87
New Documents on the Holocaust in Italy......Page 90
The Allies, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome......Page 97
Punishment and Responsibility......Page 98
Notes......Page 102
The Abwehr......Page 107
Wilhelm Canaris......Page 108
Walter Bruns......Page 110
Anti-Nazi Dissidents in Abwehr......Page 114
SD Foreign Intelligence......Page 117
Schellenberg’s Foreign Policy......Page 121
Notes......Page 129
Operation Bernhard......Page 135
The Swiss Barrack Connection......Page 141
Notes......Page 147
6 The Gestapo......Page 151
The Himmler Collection......Page 152
Reprisals in Denmark......Page 154
The Einsatzgruppen......Page 155
Harro Andreas Wilhelm Thomsen......Page 157
Horst Kopkow......Page 158
Martin Sandberger......Page 160
Heinrich Müller......Page 162
Walter Rauff......Page 167
Alois Brunner......Page 173
Notes......Page 179
The Development of the Rückwanderer Mark Scheme......Page 187
Chase Elbows In......Page 190
The FBI Investigation of Chase National Bank......Page 197
The Failure to Prosecute Chase National and its Associates......Page 201
Notes......Page 208
Background: The Ustaša and the War......Page 217
New Information on Archbishop Stepinać of Zagreb......Page 218
The Escape of Croatian War Criminals to South America......Page 224
The Ustaša Spy: Draganović as a U.S. Intelligence Source......Page 230
Notes......Page 235
9 Nazi Collaborators in the United States: What the FBI Knew......Page 241
John Avdzej......Page 242
Andrija Artuković......Page 244
László Agh......Page 245
Viorel Trifa......Page 251
Vladimir Sokolov......Page 257
Mikola Lebed......Page 263
Notes......Page 270
Höttl’s Nazi Background......Page 279
Höttl and OSS......Page 281
Höttl and Army Counterintelligence......Page 287
Károly Ney......Page 289
Karl Kowarik......Page 290
Höttl, West German Intelligence, and the CIA......Page 292
A Soviet Agent? Höttl and the Ponger-Verber Affair......Page 295
Notes......Page 300
11 Tracking the Red Orchestra: Allied Intelligence, Soviet Spies, Nazi Criminals......Page 307
The FBI and the Search for Spies in the United States......Page 309
The CIC and the Red Orchestra: Justice, Ineptitude, and Gestapo Criminals......Page 312
The Return of the Gestapo......Page 317
Notes......Page 324
Dollmann’s Career before Operation Sunrise......Page 331
Hitler’s “Tea Party”......Page 334
Trevor-Roper Account......Page 335
Operation Sunrise......Page 337
The Pitfalls of Assuming Obligations Toward Nazi Turncoats......Page 340
Notes......Page 345
13 The CIA and Eichmann’s Associates......Page 351
Leopold von Mildenstein......Page 355
Bolschwing’s Criminal Past......Page 357
Bolschwing and the United States......Page 360
Theodor Saevecke......Page 368
Erich Rajakowitsch......Page 373
Aleksandras Lileikis......Page 377
What did the Recruitment of Nazi War Criminals Achieve?......Page 378
Notes......Page 380
14 Reinhard Gehlen and the United States......Page 389
Gehlen and German Military Intelligence......Page 391
Gehlen and Major Boker......Page 393
Rusty......Page 395
CIA: The Reluctant Patron......Page 399
The Zipper Problem......Page 406
After Yankee Stadium......Page 412
The 1953 Crisis......Page 414
The U.S. Army vs. Zipper......Page 415
Mutual Suspicions and Damage Control......Page 418
Notes......Page 421
Justice Robert Jackson, the FBI, and the Search for Martin Bormann......Page 433
Klaus Barbie......Page 440
Mengele’s Ghost: The Secret Manhunt of 1985......Page 444
Notes......Page 452
Conclusion......Page 457
Notes......Page 473
Appendix: Western Communications Intelligence Systems and the Holocaust......Page 475
Step 1: Setting Priorities......Page 477
Step 2: Intercepting Enemy Messages......Page 478
Step 3: Processing Intercepts......Page 479
Step 4: Dissemination......Page 481
Notes......Page 483
Terms and Acronyms......Page 486
Selected Bibliography......Page 488
Record Groups Cited......Page 493
Contributors......Page 494
Index......Page 495

✦ Subjects

Исторические дисциплины;История стран Европы и Америки;