Sunday, November 14, 2010

A historical NYT report: how the U.S. gave safe haven to Nazis after WWII

Anyone who reads this blockbuster of a report by the New York Times will have his hair stand up, and I am sure, many, many tears will be shed.

"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."

"Perhaps the report’s most damning disclosures come in assessing the Central Intelligence Agency’s involvement with Nazi émigrés. 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."

I am not surprised about this report at all. Ask yourself: who welcomed with open arms the butchers of Fulgencio Batista after the Cuban Revolution triumphed on January First, 1959? What three presidents have given safe haven to international terrorists Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles?

What government loves military coup d'etats while telling the gullible masses that it "promotes" democracy?

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