FTR-283 The Mueller File (One 30-minute segment)
(Sources are noted in parentheses.) (Recorded on 3/18/2001.)
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Summary of FTR#283—(Note: The massive
volume of “For The Record” programs about 9/11 and related topics is summarized
and analyzed in the periodically-updated description for FTR#391.
FTR#’s 454,
455, 456 are compilations of
much of the key documentation culled from Mr. Emory’s investigation into 9/11.
Along with FTR#391, they should give
listeners/readers a substantive grasp of this momentous event. It is
recommended that listeners use this description and e-mail it to others. Also:
The book “Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile” is
available in PDF at About Paul Manning.
The book is also available in HTML at: http://www.animalfarm.org/mb/mb.shtml.
In addition, the professional history of the late Paul Manning, the book’s
author, is presented in the description About Paul Manning.
This enables listeners to acquaint others with Mr. Manning’s journalistic
credentials. Key material from the book is synopsized in an extended
description for FTR#305. Understanding the
Bormann organization is essential to comprehending the concept of “the
Underground Reich.” Note also that U.S. Government
documents proving Prescott Bush Sr.’s Money-Laundering on behalf of the Third
Reich before and after World War II are available at a linked website, along
with commentary by John Buchanan, who located the documentation. This material
is discussed in FTR#435. The website containing the documents is www.debatecomics.org/BushFamilyFortune/
.)
1.
This program covers the post-war activities of Gestapo Chief Heinrich
Mueller. Mueller was reported to have died in the ruins of Berlin at the end of
the war. When his grave was opened in 1963, it contained the remains of two (or
by some accounts three) men, none of them Mueller.
2.
The broadcast highlights Mueller’s work on behalf of U.S. intelligence
after the war, as well as his overlapping activities as director of the
remarkable and deadly Bormann Organization. (The economic and political
component of a Third Reich gone underground, the Bormann organization is also
discussed in: FTR #'s 87, 90, 99, 102,
120, 122, 123, 125, 127, 134, 145, 152, 155, 158, 177, 179, 180, 187, 189, 193,
194, 195, 215, 216, 218, 219, 224, 226,
232, 233, 234, 235, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 245, 248, 250, 251, 261, 272, 273,
274, 275, 276, 278.) This institution has perpetuated its power in an
effective, clandestine, and deadly, Mafia-like fashion in the years since World
War II. The Bormann group dominates corporate Germany and wields enormous
influence around the world.)
3.
The program begins with an excerpt from Miscellaneous Archive Show M-57, highlighting Mueller’s escape from Berlin at the end of the war,
and his work for U.S. intelligence during the Cold War. ("The Flight of
the Wolf: Berlin 1945" by Gregory Douglas; The Military Adviser; Winter of 1992-93 [Volume 4, #1].)
4.
The information in the Douglas article is, in turn, drawn largely from
U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) documents on file at the National
Archives. These documents were accessed by writer Gita Sereny, while doing
research for a London Times article. (Idem.)
5.
In addition, the Douglas article presents information from a CIA
debriefing of Mueller, apparently conducted prior to his employment by the
agency. (Idem.)
6.
It should be noted that a forensic examination of the CIC documents
conducted by the FBI supports their veracity. (Idem.)
7.
The U.S. intelligence interview with Mueller was conducted with his
eventual employment being a foregone conclusion. (Idem.)
8.
In February, an article in the Los
Angeles Times provided significant coroboration for the information in M-57. ("New Questions Arise on Fate of Gestapo Chief" by Henry
Weinstein; Los Angeles Times;
2/26/2001; pp. A1-A6.)
9.
“U.S. Army
Intelligence records indicate that Mueller--who was nicknamed ‘Gestapo Mueller’
to distinguish him from the hundreds of other Muellers in the Nazi
hierarchy--was captured by Americans in 1945, says historian George Chalou, who
worked at the National Archives for 28 years.” (Ibid.; p. A6.)
10.
The article also notes that “a German television network aired a program--based in
part on documents from the U.S. National Archives in Maryland--claiming that
Mueller was captured by the U.S. Army, but released for unknown reasons.”
(Idem.)
11.
In addition, the article notes that elements of the Mueller file were
witheld. "Despite
the fact that the files were opened more than 50 years after the end of World
War II, numerous portions have been redacted. In February 1999, eight months
before the Army records were made public by the National Archives, Army
officials sent Rabbi Hier a letter saying some of his requests for information
on Mueller were being denied on grounds of ‘national security,’ including the
possibility that more complete disclosure could compromise
intelligence-gathering methods." (Idem.)
12.
The article makes another allusion, as well. “Index cards stating that Mueller was in
custody first in the town of Ilmenau and then in December 1945 in a ‘civilian
internment’ camp in Altenstadt in Upper Bavaria. . . .It ends with the cryptic
and provocative sentence, ‘case closed 29 Jan 46.’ It is unclear who placed the
information on the card, which states that a Mueller dossier was to be sent to
Frankfurt.” (Idem.)
13.
The article also notes that
there ". .
.have been unconfirmed reports that he served as an ‘enforcer’ for former Nazis
living in South America. . . ." (Idem.)
14.
As veteran listeners know,
these reports are far more than "unconfirmed." Mueller served as the
security director for the Bormann group and, in that capacity, worked directly with U.S. intelligence, the CIA,
in particular. “The
Bormann organization had many commercial and political links to the capitals of
these three nations, and real clout was available should the chase become too
hot. The CIA could have pulled aside
the gray curtain that obscured Bormann—at any time. But the CIA and Mueller’s crack organization of former SS men found it to their mutual advantage to
cooperate in many situations. There is
no morality in the sense that most of us know it in the strange world of
professional secrecy, and when it was to the advantage of each to work together
they did so.” Martin Bormann:
Nazi in Exile; by Paul Manning; copyright 1981; Lyle Stuart [hardcover];
ISBN 0-8184-0309-8; p.211.)
15.
As might be surmised, Mueller’s operatives also worked with the
organization of Reinhard Gehlen. “Even General Gehlen, when he was chief of the Federal
Republic’s intelligence service, sent his agents to confer with General
Heinrich Mueller in South America.” (For
more on Gehlen, see RFA-3, among
other programs.) (Ibid.; p. 274.)
16.
Journalist Paul Manning had direct and extensive contact with the
Mueller organization, while doing the research for his remarkable book. (Ibid.;
pp. 272-273.)
17.
“During years
of research for this book, I have become aware of Heinrich Mueller and his
security force, which provides protection for the leadership in Latin America
and wherever else they may travel to Europe and to the United States to check
on investments and profits. Through intermediaries, I have attempted
unceasingly to penetrate to the central core of the organization in South
America, but have been denied access.
At the last meeting that I know about, it was voted: ‘Herr Manning’s
writing would focus undue attention on our activities and his request must once
again be denied.’ The elderly leaders,
including Reichminister Bormann, who is now eighty, wanted me on the scene to
write of their side of the story, above all his story, of one of the most
amazing and successful financial and industrial cloaking actions in history, of
which he is justifiably proud. I had
sent word to Bormann that the true story, his firsthand account, should become
a matter of historical record, and stated that I would be agreeable to writing
it if I could tell his true story, warts and all.” (Ibid.;
p. 272.)
18.
“Back came the
word: ‘You are a free world journalist, and can write as you think best. We, too, are interested only in truth.’ They agreed to my request to bring along a
three-man camera crew from CBS News to film my conversations with Martin
Bormann, and even approved my wish for at least a personal thumbprint of the
former Reichsleiter and party minister, which would be positive proof of his
identity. At the organization’s request,
I sent the background, names, photos and credentials of the particular CBS
cameramen: Lawrence Walter Pierce, Richard Henry Perez, and Oden Lester
Kitzmiller, an award-winning camera crew (which got the exclusive film coverage
of the attempted assassination of Governor George Wallace when he was running
for president).” (Ibid.; pp. 272-3.)
19.
“I am sorry to
say that the younger leaders , the ones now in virtual command, voted ‘No.’
They did agree, however that 232 historical documents from World War II, which
Bormann had had shipped out of Berlin in the waning days of the war, and which
are stored in his archives in South America, could be sent to me anonymously,
to be published. They said their
lengthy investigation of me had produced confidence that I was an objective
journalist, as well as a brave one, for their probing stretched back to World
War II days, and up to the present.” (Ibid.; p. 273.)
20.
“Heinrich
Mueller, now seventy-nine years old, who also serves as keeper of these
archives as well as chief of all security for the NSDAP, rejected this
decision: when the courier reached the Buenos Aires international airport
bearing these documents for me he was relieved of them by the Argentine secret
police acting under an initiative from Mueller.” (Idem.)
21. “As Mueller had explained previously, he had
nothing against me personally; I had been cleared of any ‘strange connections’
by his agents in New York City, whose surveillance efforts were supplemented by
the old pros of the Gestapo, up from South America to assist in watching
me. This continued intermittently for
years, and efforts were stepped up in response to the intensity of my
investigations. The statement I had originally made to their representatives in
West Germany, that I was only a diligent journalist trying to dig out an
important story, finally proved satisfactory to them. I observed that Mueller hadn’t lost his touch in the field of
surveillance, judging by the quality, skill, and number of men and women who
tracked me, at what must have been enormous cost, wherever I went in New York
City, Washington, and overseas.” (Idem.)
22.
Mueller didn’t restrict his security activities on behalf of the
Bormann group to surveillance. "Israeli agents who
move too closely to these centers of power are eliminated. One such termination was Fritz Bauer,
formerly attorney general for the State of Hesse in Frankfurt, a survivor of
Auschwitz and the man who tipped off the Israeli Mossad about the presence of
Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, who was killed on orders of General Mueller. .
. .Mueller’s ruthlessness even today is what deters Artur Axmann from altering
his testimony that he saw Bormann lying dead on the roadway the night of their
escape from the Fuehrerbunker, May 1-2, 1945. . . .To this day, Axmann, the
only so-called living witness to the ‘death’ of Bormann in Berlin, knows his
life is in jeoprady if he reverses himself. General Mueller is thorough and has
a long memory, and for a Nazi such as Axmann to go against Mueller’s original
directive would make him a traitor; retribution would surely follow."
(Ibid.; pp. 289-90.)
23.
The broadcast concludes with an excerpt from FTR-145, that highlights Mueller’s discreditation of journalists
attempting to tell the truth about Bormann. When writer Ladislas Farago (the
author of, among other titles, Aftermath)
was in Latin America researching the Bormann story, Mueller staged a false
photograph of Bormann and mislead Farago into using it in his book. (Excerpted
from a letter from Paul Manning to William Leonard [the President of CBS News];
11/1/81.) The journalistic assault on Farago in this country was led by Gerald
Posner, who also "walked point" for the media in the 1990’s with his
untenable reinforcement of the Warren Commission’s hypothesis.
24.
The excerpt from the Manning-Leonard letter also discusses the Mueller
outfit’s training of Mohammar Khadafy’s secret service. (Idem.) (This is also
discussed in RFA-3.)
25.
Manning also relates an account of his broadcast appearance with a
representative of the Wiesenthal organization, who agreed with his view that
the Mueller network was the best intelligence outfit in the world. The
Wiesenthal representative also agreed that Bormann had escaped from Europe.
(Idem.) (Recorded on 3/18/2001.)