CIA hid Eichmann; used Nazis for Cold War intelligence

[welshTerrier2]

the enemy of my enemy is my friend? even Nazis?

i remember when the Israelis caught Eichmann in Argentina ("vee know vhere you leef") ... i listened to his trial on short-wave radio ... pretty haunting stuff ... almost surreal ...

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060606/pl_nm/security_nazis_dc_2

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CIA suppressed the whereabouts of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann to help protect high ranking West German officials from possible revelations about their own Nazi pasts, according to CIA documents released on Tuesday.

A March 1958 memo from West German intelligence informed the CIA that Eichmann, the senior Gestapo officer who oversaw Hitler's "Final Solution" to annihilate European Jewry, was living under the alias "Clemens" in Argentina where he had arrived seven years earlier, the documents show. <skip>

The CIA also could have passed along the information to Israeli intelligence, which was ending its own search for Eichmann in Argentina when the U.S. spy agency received word of his whereabouts from West Germany.

It was not U.S. policy at the time to pursue former Nazis, who were still being recruited as Cold War spies against the Soviet Union. <skip>

[Elidor]

1. ...

The historians, who examined newly released CIA documents, told a news conference that America's use of war criminals in Cold War intelligence mainly produced unreliable information, sometimes with disastrous consequences for U.S. interests.

"We have not found any evidence that hiring these tainted individuals brought little other than operational problems and moral confusion," Naftali said.

[hopein08]

2. Coincidentally, Pierre Salinger wrote a book about almost the same thing..

I'm reading it right now. It's fiction but its about a reporter tracing the collaborationist leanings of the new French leader and finding out that the CIA spirited a whole bunch of top Nazi people to South America.

"Mortal Games"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312914512/sr=8-14/qid=1149646216/ref=sr_1_14/102-3926068-4983314?%5Fencoding=UTF8