I've been saying for years now that following WWII, the US Government   
   secretly welcomed Nazi criminials into the country, because it wanted to   
   obtain German military technology. The following article is yet more proof   
   that this is so. And, as I've said before, the USA was not the only country   
   to do this. There are, or at least were, Nazi war criminals hidden   
   throughout Latin America and elsewhere. Some foreign nations eagerly   
   accepted them for the very same reasons as the USA.   
      
   Nazis Were Given 'Safe Haven' in U.S., Report Says   
      
   By ERIC LICHTBLAU - NYT   
      
   November 13, 2010   
      
   WASHINGTON -- A secret history of the United States government's   
   Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials   
   created a "safe haven" in the United States for Nazis and their   
   collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clashes, often   
   hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and abroad.   
      
   The 600-page report, which the Justice Department has tried to keep secret   
   for four years, provides new evidence about more than two dozen of the most   
   notorious Nazi cases of the last three decades.   
      
   It describes the government's posthumous pursuit of Dr. Josef Mengele, the   
   so-called Angel of Death at Auschwitz, part of whose scalp was kept in a   
   Justice Department official's drawer; the vigilante killing of a former   
   Waffen SS soldier in New Jersey; and the government's mistaken   
   identification of the Treblinka concentration camp guard known as Ivan the   
   Terrible.   
      
   The report catalogs both the successes and failures of the band of lawyers,   
   historians and investigators at the Justice Department's Office of Special   
   Investigations, which was created in 1979 to deport Nazis.   
      
   Perhaps the report's most damning disclosures come in assessing the Central   
   Intelligence Agency's involvement with Nazi emigres. Scholars and previous   
   government reports had acknowledged the C.I.A.'s use of Nazis for postwar   
   intelligence purposes. But this report goes further in documenting the level   
   of American complicity and deception in such operations.   
      
   The Justice Department report, describing what it calls "the government's   
   collaboration with persecutors," says that O.S.I investigators learned that   
   some of the Nazis "were indeed knowingly granted entry" to the United   
   States, even though government officials were aware of their pasts.   
   "America, which prided itself on being a safe haven for the persecuted,   
   became -- in some small measure -- a safe haven for persecutors as well," it   
   said.   
      
   The report also documents divisions within the government over the effort   
   and the legal pitfalls in relying on testimony from Holocaust survivors that   
   was decades old. The report also concluded that the number of Nazis who made   
   it into the United States was almost certainly much smaller than 10,000, the   
   figure widely cited by government officials.   
      
   The Justice Department has resisted making the report public since 2006.   
   Under the threat of a lawsuit, it turned over a heavily redacted version   
   last month to a private research group, the National Security Archive, but   
   even then many of the most legally and diplomatically sensitive portions   
   were omitted. A complete version was obtained by The New York Times.   
      
   The Justice Department said the report, the product of six years of work,   
   was never formally completed and did not represent its official findings. It   
   cited "numerous factual errors and omissions," but declined to say what they   
   were.   
      
   More than 300 Nazi persecutors have been deported, stripped of citizenship   
   or blocked from entering the United States since the creation of the O.S.I.,   
   which was merged with another unit this year.   
      
   In chronicling the cases of Nazis who were aided by American intelligence   
   officials, the report cites help that C.I.A. officials provided in 1954 to   
   Otto Von Bolschwing, an associate of Adolf Eichmann who had helped develop   
   the initial plans "to purge Germany of the Jews" and who later worked for   
   the C.I.A. in the United States. In a chain of memos, C.I.A. officials   
   debated what to do if Von Bolschwing were confronted about his past --   
   whether to deny any Nazi affiliation or "explain it away on the basis of   
   extenuating circumstances," the report said.   
      
   The Justice Department, after learning of Von Bolschwing's Nazi ties, sought   
   to deport him in 1981. He died that year at age 72.   
      
   The report also examines the case of Arthur L. Rudolph, a Nazi scientist who   
   ran the Mittelwerk munitions factory. He was brought to the United States in   
   1945 for his rocket-making expertise under Operation Paperclip, an American   
   program that recruited scientists who had worked in Nazi Germany. (Rudolph   
   has been honored by NASA and is credited as the father of the Saturn V   
   rocket.)   
      
   The report cites a 1949 memo from the Justice Department's No. 2 official   
   urging immigration officers to let Rudolph back in the country after a stay   
   in Mexico, saying that a failure to do so "would be to the detriment of the   
   national interest."   
      
   Justice Department investigators later found evidence that Rudolph was much   
   more actively involved in exploiting slave laborers at Mittelwerk than he or   
   American intelligence officials had acknowledged, the report says.   
      
   Some intelligence officials objected when the Justice Department sought to   
   deport him in 1983, but the O.S.I. considered the deportation of someone of   
   Rudolph's prominence as an affirmation of "the depth of the government's   
   commitment to the Nazi prosecution program," according to internal memos.   
      
   The Justice Department itself sometimes concealed what American officials   
   knew about Nazis in this country, the report found.   
      
   In 1980, prosecutors filed a motion that "misstated the facts" in asserting   
   that checks of C.I.A. and F.B.I. records revealed no information on the Nazi   
   past of Tscherim Soobzokov, a former Waffen SS soldier. In fact, the report   
   said, the Justice Department "knew that Soobzokov had advised the C.I.A. of   
   his SS connection after he arrived in the United States."   
      
   (After the case was dismissed, radical Jewish groups urged violence against   
   Mr. Soobzokov, and he was killed in 1985 by a bomb at his home in Paterson,   
   N.J. )   
      
   The secrecy surrounding the Justice Department's handling of the report   
   could pose a political dilemma for President Obama because of his pledge to   
   run the most transparent administration in history. Mr. Obama chose the   
   Justice Department to coordinate the opening of government records.   
      
   The Nazi-hunting report was the brainchild of Mark Richard, a senior Justice   
   Department lawyer. In 1999, he persuaded Attorney General Janet Reno to   
   begin a detailed look at what he saw as a critical piece of history, and he   
   assigned a career prosecutor, Judith Feigin, to the job. After Mr. Richard   
   edited the final version in 2006, he urged senior officials to make it   
   public but was rebuffed, colleagues said.   
      
   When Mr. Richard became ill with cancer, he told a gathering of friends and   
   family that the report's publication was one of three things he hoped to see   
   before he died, the colleagues said. He died in June 2009, and Attorney   
   General Eric H. Holder Jr. spoke at his funeral.   
      
   "I spoke to him the week before he died, and he was still trying to get it   
   released," Ms. Feigin said. "It broke his heart."   
      
   After Mr. Richard's death, David Sobel, a Washington lawyer, and the   
   National Security Archive sued for the report's release under the Freedom of   
   Information Act.   
      
   The Justice Department initially fought the lawsuit, but finally gave Mr.   
   Sobel a partial copy -- with more than 1,000 passages and references deleted   
   based on exemptions for privacy and internal deliberations.   
      
   Laura Sweeney, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said the department is   
   committed to transparency, and that redactions are made by experienced   
   lawyers.   
      
   The full report disclosed that the Justice Department found "a smoking gun"   
   in 1997 establishing with "definitive proof" that Switzerland had bought   
   gold from the Nazis that had been taken from Jewish victims of the   
   Holocaust. But these references are deleted, as are disputes between the   
   Justice and State Departments over Switzerland's culpability in the months   
   leading up to a major report on the issue.   
      
   Another section describes as "a hideous failure" a series of meetings in   
   2000 that United States officials held with Latvian officials to pressure   
   them to pursue suspected Nazis. That passage is also deleted.   
      
   So too are references to macabre but little-known bits of history, including   
   how a director of the O.S.I. kept a piece of scalp that was thought to   
   belong to Dr. Mengele in his desk in hopes that it would help establish   
   whether he was dead.   
      
   The chapter on Dr. Mengele, one of the most notorious Nazis to escape   
   prosecution, details the O.S.I.'s elaborate efforts in the mid-1980s to   
   determine whether he had fled to the United States and might still be alive.   
      
   It describes how investigators used letters and diaries apparently written   
   by Dr. Mengele in the 1970s, along with German dental records and Munich   
   phone books, to follow his trail.   
      
   After the development of DNA tests, the piece of scalp, which had been   
   turned over by the Brazilian authorities, proved to be a critical piece of   
   evidence in establishing that Dr. Mengele had fled to Brazil and had died   
   there in about 1979 without ever entering the United States, the report   
   said. The edited report deletes references to Dr. Mengele's scalp on privacy   
   grounds.   
      
   Even documents that have long been available to the public are omitted,   
   including court decisions, Congressional testimony and front-page newspaper   
   articles from the 1970s.   
      
   A chapter on the O.S.I.'s most publicized failure -- the case against John   
   Demjanjuk, a retired American autoworker who was mistakenly identified as   
   Treblinka's Ivan the Terrible -- deletes dozens of details, including part   
   of a 1993 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit   
   that raised ethics accusations against Justice Department officials.   
      
   That section also omits a passage disclosing that Latvian emigres   
   sympathetic to Mr. Demjanjuk secretly arranged for the O.S.I.'s trash to be   
   delivered to them each day from 1985 to 1987. The emigres rifled through the   
   garbage to find classified documents that could help Mr. Demjanjuk, who is   
   currently standing trial in Munich on separate war crimes charges.   
      
   Ms. Feigin said she was baffled by the Justice Department's attempt to keep   
   a central part of its history secret for so long. "It's an amazing story,"   
   she said, "that needs to be told."   
      
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