Allen Dulles, the OSS, and Nazi War Criminals

Allen Dulles, the OSS, and Nazi War Criminals
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 339
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ISBN-10 : 9781107025936
ISBN-13 : 1107025931
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Allen Dulles, the OSS, and Nazi War Criminals by : Kerstin von Lingen

Download or read book Allen Dulles, the OSS, and Nazi War Criminals written by Kerstin von Lingen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kerstin von Lingen shows how Nazi SS-General Karl Wolff avoided war crimes prosecution because of his role in "Operation Sunrise," negotiations conducted by high-ranking American, Swiss, and British officials - in violation of the Casablanca agreements with the Soviet Union - for the surrender of German forces in Italy. Von Lingen suggests that the Cold War started already with "Operation Sunrise," and helps us understand rollback operations thereafter: one was the failure of justice and selective prosecution for high ranking Nazi criminals. The Western Allies not only failed to ensure cooperation between their respective national war crimes prosecution organizations, but in certain cases even obstructed justice by withholding evidence from the prosecution.

The Nazis Next Door

The Nazis Next Door
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Publisher : HMH
Total Pages : 299
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ISBN-10 : 9780547669229
ISBN-13 : 0547669224
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Nazis Next Door by : Eric Lichtblau

Download or read book The Nazis Next Door written by Eric Lichtblau and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newsweek Best Book of the Year: “Captivating . . . rooted in first-rate research” (The New York Times Book Review). In this New York Times bestseller, once-secret government records and interviews tell the full story of the thousands of Nazis—from concentration camp guards to high-level officers in the Third Reich—who came to the United States after World War II and quietly settled into new lives. Many gained entry on their own as self-styled war “refugees.” But some had help from the US government. The CIA, the FBI, and the military all put Hitler’s minions to work as spies, intelligence assets, and leading scientists and engineers, whitewashing their histories. Only years after their arrival did private sleuths and government prosecutors begin trying to identify the hidden Nazis. Now, relying on a trove of newly disclosed documents and scores of interviews, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter Eric Lichtblau reveals this little-known and “disturbing” chapter of postwar history (Salon).

Nazi War Crimes, US Intelligence and Selective Prosecution at Nuremberg

Nazi War Crimes, US Intelligence and Selective Prosecution at Nuremberg
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 469
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ISBN-10 : 9781135331337
ISBN-13 : 1135331332
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Nazi War Crimes, US Intelligence and Selective Prosecution at Nuremberg by : Michael Salter

Download or read book Nazi War Crimes, US Intelligence and Selective Prosecution at Nuremberg written by Michael Salter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a balanced but critical discussion of the contribution of American intelligence officials to the Nuremberg war crimes trials process, and reviews recently declassified CIA documents.

Blowback

Blowback
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 275
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ISBN-10 : 9781497623064
ISBN-13 : 1497623065
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Blowback by : Christopher Simpson

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.

The Devil's Chessboard

The Devil's Chessboard
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 418
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ISBN-10 : 9780062276216
ISBN-13 : 0062276212
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Devil's Chessboard by : David Talbot

Download or read book The Devil's Chessboard written by David Talbot and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers. America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on revelatory new materials—including newly discovered U.S. government documents, U.S. and European intelligence sources, the personal correspondence and journals of Allen Dulles’s wife and mistress, and exclusive interviews with the children of prominent CIA officials—Talbot reveals the underside of one of America’s most powerful and influential figures. Dulles’s decade as the director of the CIA—which he used to further his public and private agendas—were dark times in American politics. Calling himself “the secretary of state of unfriendly countries,” Dulles saw himself as above the elected law, manipulating and subverting American presidents in the pursuit of his personal interests and those of the wealthy elite he counted as his friends and clients—colluding with Nazi-controlled cartels, German war criminals, and Mafiosi in the process. Targeting foreign leaders for assassination and overthrowing nationalist governments not in line with his political aims, Dulles employed those same tactics to further his goals at home, Talbot charges, offering shocking new evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. An exposé of American power that is as disturbing as it is timely, The Devil’s Chessboard is a provocative and gripping story of the rise of the national security state—and the battle for America’s soul.

Eavesdropping on Hell

Eavesdropping on Hell
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9780486481272
ISBN-13 : 0486481271
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Eavesdropping on Hell by : Robert J. Hanyok

Download or read book Eavesdropping on Hell written by Robert J. Hanyok and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This official government publication investigates the impact of the Holocaust on the Western powers' intelligence-gathering community. It explains the archival organization of wartime records accumulated by the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service and Britain's Government Code and Cypher School. It also summarizes Holocaust-related information intercepted during the war years.

Hitler's Shadow

Hitler's Shadow
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Total Pages : 109
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ISBN-10 : 9781437944297
ISBN-13 : 1437944299
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Hitler's Shadow by : Richard Breitman

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.