While the right-wing blogsphere and media get their shorts in a twist over an obscure professor’s statement that referred to the victims of 9/11 as “little Eichmann’s”, a little story from the real world goes relatively unnoticed. One has to ask: “Where’s the outrage?”
From Haaretz:
Five of Adolph Eichmann’s Nazi assistants were recruited and employed by the Central Intelligence Agency after World War II, according to recently declassified intelligence documents. …The revelations cast a negative light not only on American intelligence activity but also the U.S. Army’s conduct in Germany at the conclusion of the war. The military made efforts to recruit members of the SS and the Gestapo into its ranks despite simultaenously waging a campaign of de-Nazification over vanquished Germany, a process which included arresting and trying Nazi war criminals.
The documents also reveal in great detail CIA efforts to recruit Reinhard Gehlen, who was the Wermacht’s chief intelligence officer for the eastern front during the war.
The documents are availble to view online at the National Security Archives. (c/o The Memory Blog)
