Israeli agent who caught Eichmann dies at 77

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Sam Jones
Thursday March 3, 2005
The Guardian

Peter Malkin, the Israeli agent who snatched Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust, from the streets of Buenos Aires and took him to face trial in Israel, has died in New York at the age of 77.

Three years after the end of the second world war, Israel pledged to hunt down the Nazis responsible for the deaths of almost 6 million Jews. Heading the newly formed state's most-wanted list was Eichmann, Hitler's foremost expert on Jewish matters and the man who oversaw the Final Solution.

Malkin was one of the men sent by Mossad, the Israeli secret service, to hunt Eichmann down. He eventually found him wandering down a street in the Argentinian capital in 1960. According to his autobiography, Eichmann in My Hands, Malkin stepped up and said: " Un momentito, señor " (Just a moment, sir) - the only words he knew in Spanish. He then grabbed Eichmann's arm and wrestled him to the ground with the help of another agent.

Eichmann was interrogated for 10 days in a safe house before being spirited away to Israel on a diplomatic flight. In 1961, he was put on trial in Jerusalem for crimes against humanity and 14 other charges. He was executed in 1962.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1429305,00.html

[booksenkatz]

1. I have a copy of the movie "The House on Garibaldi St." & it's quite good

Will have to go watch it again. Thanks for posting.

[Minstrel Boy]

2. From Feb 6: "CIA employed Eichmann's men"

CIA employed Eichmann's men

At least five Nazi associates of Adolf Eichmann worked for the US Central Intelligence Agency following World War II, according to CIA documents posted Friday by The National Security Archive.

The Web site postings detail the US government's relationship with Gen. Reinhard Gehlen, the German Army's intelligence chief for the eastern front during the war, who later developed a close relationship with America. He was able to maintain his intelligence network despite employing known war criminals, with at least 100 former SD or Gestapo officers within his organization, according to the records.

The archive is a non-profit group that seeks to bring government documents to light under the Freedom of Information Act. It has been pressuring the CIA to release further information relating to its contacts with Nazis under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, despite the embarrassing nature of that information.

Dr. Efraim Zuroff, who heads the Jerusalem office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, welcomed the revelations, though he noted that the CIA's relationship with former Nazis has long been known.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull%26cid=1107575181597

"former Nazis"?