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Nazi War Crimes Trials:
Nazi War Crimes Trials:
CIA Witholding Documents about U.S. and Nazi War Criminals
(January 30, 2005)
A
1998 law, known as the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, established the
the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency
Working Group to “locate, identify, inventory, recommend for
declassification and make available to the public at the National
Archives and Records Administration, all classified Nazi war criminal
records of the United States.” The group is led by a representative of
the National Archives, and includes representatives of the C.I.A., the
F.B.I., the Defense Department and other government agencies.
The
C.I.A. is reportedly refusing to provide hundreds of thousands of pages
of documents sought by the group. Under the law, the C.I.A. has already
provided more than 1.2 million pages of documents, the vast majority of
them from the archives of its
World War II predecessor,
the Office of Strategic Services. The working group released a book,
“U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis,” in May 2004, which showed the
American government worked closely with
Nazi war criminals and collaborators, allowing many of them to live in the United States after World War II.
Historians who have studied the documents made public so far have said that at least five associates of the Nazi leader
Adolf Eichmann, the architect of
Hitler's campaign to
exterminate Jews,
had worked for the C.I.A. The records also indicate that the C.I.A.
tried to recruit two dozen more war criminals or Nazi collaborators.
Sources: New York Times, (January 30, 2005)
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