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Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 3 Num. 23


              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 3  Num. 23
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I received the following from a CN reader who wishes to remain 
anonymous. What I plan to do is post the entire document over a 
period of time, most likely in weekly installments. Here is part 6.
 
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CONSPIRACY: 
THE INVISIBLE SECOND RUNG OF GOVERNMENT 
 
An Investigation and Discussion of that Part of the United       
 States Government Which We Did Not Elect, Which Is Not
  Accountable, Which Is Unconstitutional, Which Is Engaged In
   Unlawful and Unconstitutional Activity, and Then Hides Behind
the National Security Act of 1947
 
 
PART I :
CITATION AND SUMMARY OF SOURCES
 
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29.  Simpson, Christopher, Blowback,  New York, New York, 
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.  Simpson is an award-winning 
investigative reporter in Washington, D.C.  Summary:  Documents 
U.S. collaboration with Nazis since WWII and its cover-up; how 
the Pentagon falsified files in order to bring the Nazi war 
criminals here; how the "Nazis on the U.S. intelligence payroll 
seriously misrepresented the nature and extent of the Soviet 
threat, thereby" unnecessarily heightening the cold war, "and 
significantly contributed to the hysteria of the cold war and the 
McCarthy era;" "how the CIA has spent millions to bankroll anti- 
Semitic emigre political groups inside the United States - and 
has consistently hidden the part played by leaders of these 
groups during the Holocaust." The exile groups have "articulate 
defenders inside the staff of the National Security Council" and 
"influence on Capitol Hill."
 
In spy jargon blowback means "unexpected - and negative - effects 
at home that result from covert operations overseas.  Examples 
include an organization of former Nazis that "provided false 
information that nearly led to World War III;" and, "McCarthy 
employed a secret U.S. espionage squad made up in part of Nazi 
collaborators to gather slanderous information used to smear 
political opponents."
 
Documents knowing collaboration by the mass media with the CIA in 
spreading cold war myths and participation in transforming Nazi 
collaborators into freedom fighters.  (CIA propagandizing its own 
citizens is illegal.)  The mass media also suppressed "critical 
news concerning the CIA's propaganda projects," as well as 
falsifying their reports to the public.  Reporters who wrote 
exposes learned that their pieces "were simply not welcome at 
mainstream publications."  Some of these publications included 
Time-Life, Reader's Digest, and Fortune magazine.
 
"U.S. interventions abroad have facilitated the entry into 
America of extremist and even terrorist emigre organizations that 
have subsequently gained political footholds in ethnic 
communities in this country, often through the use of violence 
and intimidation."  "Only weeks after Hitler's final collapse," 
the U.S. began integrating hundreds of Nazi scientists into U.S. 
military research projects financed by American taxpayers.
 
There was a two-tier U.S. policy:  "It combined a public 
condemnation and pursuit of fugitive Nazi criminals, on the one 
hand, with secret protection and utilization of some of the same 
men, on the other....It became routine for U.S. intelligence 
agencies to defy the announced policies of the American 
government concerning Nazi fugitives."
 
Many examples of this policy are given.  "Reinhard Gehlen, 
Hitler's most senior military intelligence officer on the eastern 
front" and other "senior Nazi security officers" were freed by 
the U.S., and then installed "in a former Waffen SS training 
facility near Pullach, Germany, which has remained the group's 
headquarters to this day." Gehlen was personally responsible for 
organizing one of the worst "atrocities of the war:  the torture, 
interrogation, and murder by starvation of some 4 million Soviet 
prisoners of war."  Gehlen's spy organization employed former SS 
men, ones who "had been instrumental in the mass extermination of 
Jews," and "had led mobile killing squads."
 
Another Nazi who helped form U.S. foreign policy was German 
diplomat Gustav Hilger.  During the war, he processed SS reports 
on the mobile killing squads for Hitler.  One such report entered 
into evidence at Nuremberg cites that:  three escaped Jews had 
been recaptured then publicly hanged; of the Jews shot, 3412 
"were shot in Minsk, 302 in Vileika and 2007 in Baranovichi," 
15000 in Rakov, "and 1224 in Artenovsk, so that these Places are 
now free of Jews.  In the Crimea 1000 Jews and gypsies were 
executed."
 
Hilger also had a direct role in the Hungarian murder of 4000 
Jews and 6000 Serbs.  He also led Germany's attack on several 
thousand Italian Jews, who were first forced into work camps, 
then shipped to Auschwitz by train.
 
Hilger, aided by the U.S., evaded arrest, settled in West Germany 
(expenses for travel paid for by the U.S.), and served as 
ambassador to the United States there.  He was given a high-level 
security clearance, given access to highly classified 
information, and advised President Truman on East-West foreign 
policy.
 
In another example of U.S. aid to Nazis, the U.S. government 
secretly released a large amount of "black currency" in Italy to 
fund clandestine activities, a large part of which "came from 
captured Nazi German assets, including money and gold that the 
Nazis had looted from the Jews."  This money was given to Walter 
Rauff's sponsor.  "Rauff was a major war criminal.  He had 
personally developed and administered the notorious gas truck 
execution program which took the lives of approximately 250,000 
people, most of them Jewish women and children who died in 
unspeakable filth and agony."  Rauff's sponsor used the money "to 
buy Jeeps, bedding, and guns for an underground squadron of some 
300 anti-Communist Italian youths for use during the l948 
elections.  The job of this band was beatings of left-wing 
candidates and activists, breaking up political meetings, and 
intimidating voters.  [These] troops became the forerunners of a 
number of other similar paramilitary gangs funded by the CIA in 
Germany, Greece, Turkey, and several other countries over the 
next decade."
 
The justification for using covert operations such as this was 
that it enabled the President to bypass the normal controls of a 
democracy, namely Congress and the Department of State, in 
setting foreign policy.  It also "permitted the president 
secretly to carry out actions that would discredit the United 
States if they were undertaken openly."
 
Another covert operation approved in 1948 by the U.S. was 
contained in National Security Council decision NSC 10/2, which 
authorized "covert warfare, sabotage, and assassination," black 
psychological warfare, clandestine warfare, subversion, economic 
warfare, propaganda, and demolition.  It was planned in such a 
way that "any U.S. government responsibility for them is not 
evident to unauthorized persons and that if [they are] uncovered 
the U.S. government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for 
them."
 
This decision was kept so secret that "had it not been for the 
congressional investigations into U.S. intelligence practices 
that followed the Watergate affair almost thirty years later, the 
very existence of this decision would still be secret."
 
Immigration was ordered to keep detailed reports on all Nazis 
brought to the U.S., but the agency claims it can't locate those 
records.
 
In 1950, the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) and the 
CIA trained "at least 100 members of the far-right-wing League of 
Young Germans" in guerrilla warfare, supplying free arms, 
ammunition, and explosives with about $500,000 per year (1950 
dollars).  Most of the League of Young Germans were "Waffen SS 
and Wehrmacht veterans."  Most of the leadership "had been 
enthusiastic 'Jew baiters' in the Goebbels ministry during the 
Nazis' rule."  In the event of a Soviet attack, the group planned 
to assassinate more than forty top German leaders.  They had a 
hit list, had infiltrated these German political groups, and were 
regularly tailing these German leaders.  Accidentally, their 
plans were foiled by a chance arrest which led to their 
discovery.  "According to the later German parliament report on 
the affair, the American agencies were actually paying the 
plotters an additional 12,000 deutsche marks per month for these 
espionage services."  Once caught, the U.S. claimed it did not 
know what its own contract agents had been up to.  Even if true, 
this ignorance "is a clear indication of just how little real 
control U.S. intelligence had over many of its far-flung 
paramilitary operations and how carelessly it was willing to 
spend money."
 
"The concepts of maintaining 'plausible deniability' for the 
actual murder and of the expendability of the killers themselves 
are a key to understanding U.S. assassination techniques."  
Covert "warfare specialists believed that the most 'productive' - 
and least compromising - method of killing foreign officials was 
to underwrite the discontent of indigenous groups and let them 
take the risks."  Exactly how U.S. assassinations "worked during 
the cold war and who was responsible for them" is contained in 
scattered and fragmentary evidence.  "All that can be said with 
certainty is that such murders did take place" and some carried 
out by Nazi collaborators.
 
"Before the decade of the 1950s was out, the CIA is known to have 
established mechanisms for using "deniable" assets and emigres 
for the execution of heads of state and other international 
leaders.  These later killings, which are arguably the most 
serious blunders ever made by the CIA, have created blowback 
problems on an international scale and have had a significant and 
generally negative effect on the lives of millions of people."
 
A 1949 law allows up to 100 persons (and their families) per year 
to enter the U.S. even if they are inadmissible under immigration 
or other law, if the CIA Director, the Attorney General, and the 
Commissioner of Immigration decide that it is in the interests of 
national security to do so.  The AG and C of I claim they have no 
records about any such aliens for the last 35 years.  The CIA 
"defied a congressional committee's request for an accounting - 
even a secret accounting...."
 
The problem is that apparently the CIA uses the authority of this 
law to legalize an alien only if the alien is accidentally caught 
by INS.
 
Buried in the text of this same 1949 law, "and mentioned almost 
in passing, was legal authorization for the CIA to ignore public 
accountability for its budget, its personnel policy, or its 
procurement practices.
 
Within the Ukraine in 1949, the CIA and the Office for Policy 
Coordination sought out Ukrainian SS and militia veterans to have 
ready troops in case of a nuclear conflict with the USSR.  These 
Nazi collaborators tried to halt "efforts to establish collective 
farms in the Ukraine by identifying peasant farmers who agreed to 
join the state-sponsored farms.  'That same night,' the U.S. 
military attache cabled to Washington, OUN guerrillas 'appeared 
in the homes of these individuals and chopped off the arms which 
the peasants had raised at the [collective farm] meeting to 
signify assent.'  Similarly, according to a second American 
report, 'prosperous Jews' were 'singled out' for attack along 
with Communists during the insurgency in much the same way they 
had been during the Nazi occupation."
 
As a result, Ukrainian people "gave increased credence to the 
Soviet government's message that the United States, too, was 
really Nazi at heart and capable of using any sort of deceit and 
violence to achieve its ends."  This is an example of blowback 
affecting every U.S. citizen.
 
Another example of blowback was that the U.S. was vulnerable to 
blackmail by these former Nazis on U.S. payroll if they were also 
fugitives from war crimes charges.  They promised continuing 
silence about U.S. covert operations on the condition that they 
receive help in escaping.
 
So, the U.S. became a major player in the underground Nazi escape 
networks, or ratlines, the most important of which was operated 
through the Vatican in Rome, due to Nazi and Vatican's shared 
struggle against "atheistic communism."  During the course of the 
war, some Catholic Church leaders lost their lives in their 
struggle against Nazi crimes. But, there were certain church- 
based political parties (Christian Democratic and clerical- 
Fascist) which "used the mantle and the moral authority of the 
church to help carry out the preparation for, and in some cases 
the actual execution of, the Nazi genocide of the Jews."
 
One of the Nazi war criminals sponsored by the U.S. on this 
ratline was Klaus Barbie.  He "had deported Jews to death camps, 
[and] tortured and murdered the resistance fighters who fell into 
his hands...."  The CIC was after Barbie.  Barbie volunteered for 
service in the CIC through a friend, Merk, who was also a war 
crimes fugitive running a spy network for the CIC.  Merk 
convinced his CIC controlling agent that Barbie could be useful.  
The CIC controlling agent "then hired Barbie and kept him hidden 
from the rest of the CIC."  Later another CIC agent learned 
through an informer that Barbie had tortured French resistance 
fighters, that he "used to hang them by their thumbs until they 
were dead...[and that] if the French ever found out how many mass 
graves Barbie was responsible for, even Eisenhower would not be 
able to protect him."
 
The French government began requesting Barbie's extradition. 
Barbie's CIC handlers decided to help him escape in the ratline 
because, if arrested, would have too many "compromising things to 
say about the CIC...."  Thirty years later, due to changes in 
government and public opinion, Barbie was apprehended.  A 
resulting U.S. Justice Department investigation concluded that 
the U.S. had protected Barbie and planned his escape, "but that 
Barbie was the only such Nazi who had been assisted in this 
fashion."
 
The U.S. sponsorship of other war criminals, in particular, 
Ustachis or Croatian fascists, as passengers in the ratline led 
to their establishing new Ustachi cells in communities overseas, 
"in some cases headed by the same men who had once led murder 
squads inside wartime Croatia.  This violent, "extremist sect 
remains active to this day in the U.S., Australia and several 
other countries."  FBI investigative reports conclude they "have 
been responsible for an airplane hijacking, bombings, extortion, 
numerous murders, and the assassination of several Yugoslavian 
diplomats over the course of the last two decades."
 
The CIC's support of this ratline contributed to the presence 
within the U.S. of terrorist groups.
 
In 1949 and 1950 the National Security Council made two decisions 
that affected the way the U.S. handled Nazi collaborators both 
overseas (NSC Intelligence Directive 13) and here in the U.S. 
(NSC Intelligence Directive 14).  NSCID 14 expanded the CIA's 
authority to function inside the U.S. - "in an apparent violation 
of the CIA's charter" - as long as those functions were performed 
"through emigre political organizations that supposedly still had 
some connection with the old country."  As a result, a large 
amount of the CIA's money has been "spent on lobbying the U.S. 
congress and on other propaganda efforts inside this country - a 
clear violation of the law."
 
The CIA "has repeatedly chosen to" use NSCID 14 "as authorization 
for substantial political involvement in immigrant communities in 
America.  One of their programs began underwriting bringing 
"favored European exiles into this country."  Another was "a 
multimillion-dollar publicity campaign in the" U.S. to win 
"approval for cold war measures sponsored by the CIA."
 
The intense anti-communist atmosphere of the cold war, partly 
created by the Nazi war criminals, was used as a place to hide, 
socially, politically, and psychologically.  War crime 
accusations were called Communist propaganda.  Anti-communism was 
how the war criminals rationalized their atrocities.  
"Respectable conservatives in this country who had never been 
Nazi collaborators often turned a blind eye to this process and 
were sometimes the most articulate advocates for SS veterans and 
other collaborators."  "The anti-Communist paranoia of the 
McCarthy period gave these war criminals' fascision over German 
scientists and spies led to suspicion, hostility, and fear  
between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.
 
Second, further use of the Nazis escalated the cold war, 
resulting in U.S. loss of friends in Eastern Europe, more 
repression, and fewer civil liberties in that region.  The 
hypocrisy in our two-tier program has discredited America.
 
Third, former Nazis reported misinformation to the U.S. 
intelligence agencies and that reinforced the predominant 
preconceptions within Washington, D.C.
 
Fourth, by hiring the likes of Klaus Barbie, there has been a 
corrupting influence on U.S. intelligence agencies.  Recruiting 
criminals, mercenaries, and torturers has produced "compromising 
personnel problems that last for years, even for decades."  
Protecting the retired CIA agent is necessary.  But protection of 
the agent keeps the American public from being able to expel 
known Nazi criminals hiding in the U.S.  Rather than using 
information about a Nazi's crimes to blackmail him into service 
for the CIA, the CIA should turn the information over to bring 
the Nazi to trial.
 
Fifth, the CIA's misuse of Nazi emigre programs as a loophole to 
intervene domestically in American politics.  They manipulated 
the media, broadcast propaganda, surveilled and harassed 
opponents, manipulated academic research programs, lobbied 
Capitol Hill, and penetrated senior leadership of trade unions, 
corporations, religious groups, and student organizations.
 
Sixth, these clandestine activities using Nazis played a major 
role in the obstruction of justice.  These criminals who have 
been brought to trial have developed the "CIA defense," in which 
they claim that by divulging their past to the CIA, they 
satisfied any and all legal requirements.  Those criminals 
brought in under the 100 Persons act will probably never be 
brought to trial because their immigration was legal. Another 
maneuver used by the war criminals is the "KGB defense,"  in 
which it is claimed that the KGB is working in collaboration with 
the U.S. to frame the former Nazi by manufacturing evidence.  
Former White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan 
called a recent prosecution of a Nazi death camp guard as "an 
official lynching, choreographed by the KGB."  The cold war 
became a way for tens of thousands of Nazis to sidestep 
responsibility for the murders they committed.
 
                   [...to be continued...]
 
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