FTR#558—The Eichmann File —(One 30-minute segment) (Sources are noted in
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that listeners use this description and e-mail it to others.) This program supplements the recent
disclosure that the CIA knew the whereabouts of Nazi war criminal Adolph
Eichmann, but failed to act on that information. Eichmann was the overseer of
the extermination of European Jewry. This broadcast sets forth information
about Eichmann’s participation in a CIA-sponsored mission to train the Egyptian
intelligence service and general staff in the early 1950’s. The disclosure of
this information in a public forum following an arrest of Eichmann would have
proved embarrassing, one possible reason for the CIA’s reticence on the
subject. The Eichmann case also illustrates something of the texture of US
political and national security bureaucracy: Even as elements of the CIA ran
the Egyptian operation that allegedly employed Eichmann, other American
officials noted the influx of some of the most heinous Nazi war criminals and
reported on it to their superiors with great alarm. Functioning as a Trojan Horse
for the Underground Reich, the Gehlen spy organization embodied a perpetuation
of the Third Reich’s chain of political and military command. Evolving from the
Third Reich’s Eastern Front intelligence service to become the CIA’s department
of Russian and Eastern European affairs, the outfit run by General Reinhard
Gehlen cleared its liaison with the Americans with [Hitler successor] Admiral
Karl von Doenitz and [Gehlen’s “former” chief of staff] General Franz Halder.
Thus, the Nazi command hierarchy remained essentially intact. Much of the
program focuses on Otto von Bolschwing, Eichmann’s superior for a time. Von
Bolschwing spent much of the postwar period working for Gehlen and the CIA.
Most importantly, his protégé—Helene Van Damm—drew up the lists of personnel
from which Ronald Reagan made his cabinet selections. In effect, von
Bolschwing and Van Damm oversaw the staffing of the US political bureaucracy
with personnel selected according to their highly specialized taste!
Program Highlights Include: A list of the other prominent Nazi war criminals recruited by Skorzeny to
serve alongside Eichmann in Egypt; Skorzeny’s development of the first
Palestinian terrorist commandos while serving on the Gehlen/Dulles mission in
Egypt; Skorzeny and Gehlen’s use of CIA-sponsored operations to spread a Nazi
political agenda; von Bolschwing’s connections to the milieu of the Iran/Contra
scandal, the German government’s postwar infiltration by rabid Nazis.
1.
The program begins
with an article about the CIA’s cover-up of the whereabouts of Adolph Eichmann.
In charge of the relocation and murder of European Jewry during World War II,
SS officer Eichmann was among the most wanted of Nazi war criminals. Kidnapped
from his hiding place in Argentina by Israeli agents, Eichmann was tried,
convicted and executed for his crimes. It turns out that the CIA knew where
Eichmann had gone to ground by 1958, but kept it a secret. “The Central Intelligence Agency took no action after
learning the pseudonym and whereabouts of the fugitive Holocaust administrator
Adolf Eichmann. In 1958, according to C.I.A. documents released Tuesday that
shed new light on the spy agency’s use of former Nazis as informants after
World War II. . . . The Eichmann papers are among 27,000 newly declassified
pages released by the C.I.A. to the National Archives under Congressional
pressure to make public files about former officials of Hitler’s regime later
used as American agents. The material reinforces the view that most former
Nazis gave American intelligence little of value and in some cases proved to be
damaging double agents for the Soviet K.G.B. according to historians and
members of the government panel that has worked to open the long-secret files.”
(“C.I.A. Knew Where Eichmann Was Hiding, Documents Show” by Scott
Shane; New York Times; 6/7/2006; p. A3.)
2.
“Elizabeth Holtzman, a former congresswoman from New York
and member of the panel, the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government
Records Interagency Working Group, said the documents showed that the C.I.A.
‘failed to lift a finger’ to hunt Eichmann and ‘force us to confront not only
the moral harm but the practical harm’ of relying on intelligence from
ex-Nazis. The United States government, preoccupied with the cold war, had no
policy at the time of pursuing Nazi war criminals. The records also show that
American intelligence officials protected many former Nazis for their perceived
value in combating the Soviet threat.” (Idem.)
3.
“But Ms. Holtzman, speaking at a news briefing at the
National Archives on Tuesday, said information from the former Nazis was often
tainted both by their ‘personal agendas’ and their vulnerability to blackmail.
‘Using bad people can have very bad consequences,’ Ms. Holtzman said. She and
other group members suggested that the findings should be a cautionary tale for
intelligence agencies today. As head of the Gestapo’s Jewish affairs office
during the war, Eichmann put into effect the policy of extermination of
European Jewry, promoting the use of gas chambers and having a hand in the
murder of millions of Jews. Captured by the United States Army at the end of
the war, he gave a false name and went unrecognized, hiding in Germany and
Italy before fleeing to Argentina in 1950.” (Idem.)
4.
Note that the West
German government feared that exposing Eichmann could lead to disclosures about
Hans Globke, Konrad Adenauer’s most trusted adviser. Globke drew up the Law for
the Protection of German Blood and Honor—the law under which the
extermination of the Jews was enacted! As will be seen in paragraph 11,
the Adenauer/Globke government actively protected a CIA operation using many
Nazi war criminals, including Eichmann. “Israeli
agents hunting for Eichmann came to suspect that he was in Argentina but did
not know his alias. They temporarily abandoned their search around the time, in
March 1958, the West German intelligence told the C.I.A. that Eichmann had been
living in Argentina as Clemens, said Mr. Naftali, of the University of
Virginia. The West German government was wary of exposing Eichmann because
officials feared what he might reveal about such figures as Hans Globke, a
former Nazi government official then serving as a top national security adviser
to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Mr. Naftali said. In 1960, also at the request
of West Germany, the C.I.A. persuaded Life magazine, which had purchased
Eichmann’s memoir from his family, to delete a reference to Mr. Globke before
publication, the documents show. . . .” (Idem.)
5.
One possible reason
for the CIA’s reluctance to disclose Eichmann’s whereabouts is the fact that Eichmann
worked for the CIA as a “contract agent” in Egypt! (A contract agent is an
operative who signs on to perform an individual assignment for the CIA—as
opposed to a career employee or CIA “officer.”) Eichmann was one of a number of
SS war criminals who worked to develop the Egyptian secret service and general
staff on a mission that was launched under the auspices of General Reinhard
Gehlen and his CIA boss, Allen Dulles. In charge of intelligence for the
Eastern Front during World War II, Gehlen jumped to the CIA with his entire
organization, which became the CIA’s department of Russian and Eastern European
affairs, the de facto NATO intelligence organization and, ultimately the
BND—the intelligence service for the Federal Republic of Germany. The Gehlen
organization retained all of its Nazi character, utilizing many of the most
notorious SS officers and war criminals. The Gehlen/Dulles operation that
employed Eichmann was realized under the auspices of SS colonel Otto Skorzeny.
Skorzeny had been in charge of commando operations for the Third Reich, was one
of Hitler’s personal favorites and was a leader of the postwar ODESSA
network—the deadly SS underground that operated around the world. For more
about Skorzeny, ODESSA, Gehlen and other elements of discussion, use the search function
available on this website. Note how Skorzeny, operating under the auspices
of CIA and Gehlen, was able to promote a Nazi and fascst agenda in Egypt! As we
shall see below, the Gehlen organization was a Trojan Horse for the Underground
Reich. “ . . . If there were any doubts that
Skorzeny’s allegiance to the United States was of an opportunist nature and
temporary, they were dispelled by his actions in Egypt and the Mideast. Even
his deep hatred of the Soviets was forgotten when it interfered with his
personal ambitions. Egypt presented Skorzeny the opportunity to promote
fascism; to establish a Nazi clique whose influence would be felt by the West
German government to restore German prestige in the Mideast, and to become a
wealthy man. He didn’t allow the opportunity to pass . . .” (Skorzeny:
Hitler’s Commando; by Glenn Infield; St. Martin’s Press [HC]; Copyright
1981 by Glenn B. Infield; ISBN; 0-312-72777-1; p. 205.)
6.
A CIA-supported coup
in Egypt ousted King Farouk and replaced him with General Naguib and Gamal
Abdel Nasser. The latter eventually became Egypt’s head of state. Dulles wanted
to retain U.S. influence in Egypt and turned to Gehlen to recruit personnel
suitable for the job. Gehlen turned to Skorzeny and his father in law Hjalmar
Horace Greeley Schacht, the American-born former finance minister of Germany. “ . . . The CIA, under the influence of Allen Dulles,
selected Egyptian army General Mohammed Naguib to head the government. . . .
The takeover of the country by Naguib, with Nasser playing the role of a
shadowy dictator in the background, opened the door wide for the three silent
conspirators of Hitler’s regime: Gehlen, Schacht, and Skorzeny. As Gehlen
stated in his memoirs: ‘We found Arab countries particularly willing to embrace
Germans with an ostensibly ‘Nazi’ past.’ And Naguib was quick to ask for help.
Since his revolt had the backing of the CIA and he was aware that Gehlen was
collaborating with the U.S. intelligence agency, his request for someone to
train his security forces went to Pullach, Gehlen’s headquarters south of
Munich. Gehlen and Schacht were in complete agreement that the man for the job
was Otto Skorzeny. Dulles, aware of Skorzeny’s anti-Soviet role during the
immediate postwar years when the Western nations desperately needed help,
concurred. Skorzeny went to Egypt as Naguib’s military advisor. It was a
decision the United States would regret in later years.” (Ibid.; pp.
205-206.)
7.
Again, note that the
Gehlen/Skorzeny/Schacht milieu was able to pursue an essentially Nazi agenda
under the auspices of CIA/Dulles. As will be seen below, many U.S. officials
were unaware of the Skorzeny mission, and reported on developments in Egypt
with great alarm. “There was, of course, another
reason former Nazis were quick to accept the Egyptian invitation. It once again
pitted them against the Jews and the newly established Israeli nation. As the Judische
Rundschau stated in 1951: ‘As for Skorzeny’s anti-Semitic and fascist
propensities, this is undoubtedly true. Skorzeny readily admits his strong
anti-Semitism.’ Gehlen, too, had reservations about the relationship between
the new West German government and Israel. ‘I have always regarded it as
something of a tragedy that West Germany was inevitably dragged into an
alliance with the state of Israel against the Arab countries,’ he stated in his
memoirs. ‘I always regarded their [Arabs] traditional friendship for Germany as
of immense value for our national reconstruction. And at the request of Allen
Dulles and the CIA, we at Pullach did our best to inject life and expertise
into the Egyptian secret service, supplying them with the former SS officers I
have mentioned.’” (Ibid.; p. 207.)
8.
The personnel with
whom Skorzeny’s Nazis worked were openly admiring of the Third Reich. “If there was any doubt that Naguib was pro-German, his
public statements cleared up the misunderstanding. ‘I want you to believe me
when I say that I have not changed the great admiration I have for the Germans.
Their efficiency, their extraordinary gifts as scientists and technicians, and
their loyalty are quite unique. I have been noticing all these qualities in
recent times, watching the work of the German officers and experts in my army.’
Dr. Noreddine Tarraf, one of Naguib’s most important supporters and later
Minister of Health, was even more explicit when speaking of the Germans,
particularly the Nazis. ‘Hitler is the man of my life. The German dictator had
been an ideal leader who dedicated his life to the realization of his noble
ambition. He never lived for himself but for Germany and the German people. I
have always wished to live like him.’” (Idem.)
9.
“Skorzeny
felt at ease among Egyptian officials with this attitude. His first task was to
organize a staff of former SS and Wehrmacht officers to train the Egyptian army
and security forces. He selected carefully, making certain that each officer he
brought to Egypt was a diehard Nazi, an expert military tactician, and was
anti-Semitic. Among those recruited by Skorzeny were SS General Oskar
Dirlewanger, who had commanded a brigade composed of poachers, criminals, and
men under the sentence of court-martial during the Warsaw ghetto uprising and
whose actions against the Jews had earned him the nickname ‘Butcher of War
saw’; SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, the officer Himmler charged with the
destruction of millions of Jews and who later would be kidnapped from Argentina by the Israeli secret service and
smuggled back to Israel to stand trial [Italics are Mr. Emory’s]; SS General Wilhelm Farmbacher;
Panzer General Oskar Munzel; Leopold Gleim, former chief of Hitler’s personal
guard and Gestapo security chief of German-occupied Poland; and Joachim
Daemling, former chief of the Gestapo in Dusseldorf. To handle medical
problems, Skorzaeny recruited Dr. Hans Eisele, who had been chief medical
officer at Buchenwald concentration camp, and Heinrich Willerman, former
medical director at Dachau.” (Ibid.;
pp. 207-208.)
10.
The
paragraphs that follow are of great significance. Indicative of he multi-polar
texture of the U.S. political and national security bureaucracies, many
American operatives reported with great alarm on the Nazi recrudescence in
Egypt. They were unaware of the CIA/Dulles/Gehlen/Skorzeny collaboration. “U.S. officials, many of them unaware that Allen Dulles had
encouraged Gehlen to provide Naguib with German military advisers, became
worried when so many infamous Nazi officers appeared in Egypt. Even Dulles
became concerned when it was reported to him that Skorzeny was meeting often
with Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian army lieutenant colonel who seemed to be
giving more orders than Naguib. A secret letter, Embassy Dispatch 2276, from
Jefferson Caffery of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo to the Department of State in
Washington, indicates that inquiries concerning Skorzeny’s activities in Egypt
were being conducted. ‘On June 14, the local press announced that Otto Skorzeny
had an hour’s interview with Gamal Abdel Nasser on June 12. Aside from
recalling that he was in charge of the special commando unit which kidnapped
Mussolini and pointing out his experience in the training of commandos, the
press gave no further details. The Counsel of the German Embassy states that he
and his colleagues had no previous information concerning the visit. They are
trying now through contacts among the German Military Mission to find out what
Skorzeny is up to. The German Counselor remarked that it was difficult to keep
track of this individual because he resides in Spain, but the German Embassy
knew that when he was here the last time, four or five months ago, he talked to
the Egyptians about the supplying of small arms and the training of the
commandos. On the general subject of the activities of German officers in
Egypt, the German Counselor said that a foreign office official came to Egypt
recently to investigate them following Sir Winston Churchill’s speech in which
he mentioned their activities. . . .’” (Ibid.;
pp. 208-209.)
11.
Note that the German
government, under Konrad Adenauer and his eminence grise Hans Globke (see
paragraph 4), actively protected the Skorzeny operation. And Eichmann
was used as part of the Skorzeny operation! It is fascinating to note that the
first Palestinian terrorist unites were formed under the tutelage of Skorzeny! “ . . . This secret dispatch and others that followed from
Egypt indicate that U.S. officials and even CIA agents were woefully unaware of
what the Nazis were really doing in Egypt. The Adenauer government was
well aware of Skorzeny’s presence in Egypt and condoned his actions on behalf
of the new Federal Republic of Germany. The pretended ‘ignorance’ of the German
Counselor was merely a face-saving move and an effort to deceive the U.S.
Embassy. . . . Skorzeny was already training an Arab foreign legion in commando
tactics. This secret unit was comprised of 400 former Nazis and Gestapo
veterans and used a training base at Bilbeis in the Delta. He also helped
organize and train the first Palestine terrorists and planned their initial
forays into Israel by way of the Gaza Strip about 1953-1954. . . . [Italics
are Mr. Emory’s.]” (Ibid.; p. 209.)
12.
Excerpting
FTR#180, the program sets
forth the fact that General Gehlen cleared all the initiation of his
intelligence operations with the Americans with Admiral Karl Doenitz (political
successor to Hitler as head of state) and General Franz Halder (Gehlen’s chief
of staff during the war.) As Author Carl Oglesby notes, this indicates that the
Nazi chain of command was still in effect, even while Gehlen was ostensibly
working for the Americans! As set forth in FTR#305 and FTR#180, Gehlen cleared his
actions with General Mueller, Bormann’s chief of security. (“The Secret Treaty of Fort Hunt” by Carl Oglesby; Covert
Action Information Bulletin [Issue#35]; excerpted from AFA#37,
recorded in August, 1992.)
13.
One of the most
important Nazis brought into the country through the Dulles-Gehlen milieu was
Otto von Bolschwing. Later, his protégé Helene Van Damm became the person who
selected the list from which all of Ronald Reagan’s cabinet appointments were
made. Note that von Bolschwing not only replaced Eichmann as intelligence
officer in the Middle East but also was his superior for a period of time. (For
more about von Bolschwing, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 332, , 399, 465.) “Eichmann was replaced on the Middle Eastern scene by a
far more skilled intelligence officer, Otto von Bolschwing. Before World War
II, von Bolschwing set up an import-export business in Palestine as a cover for
his espionage activities. He was an educated man from a good family and an
enthusiastic supporter of Hitler. After the war, von Bolschwing became one of
Allen Dulles’s senior agents in the CIA.” (The
Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People;
by Mark Aarons and John Lotus; St. Martin’s Press [HC]; Copyright 1994 by Mark
Aarons; ISBN 0-312-11057-X; p. 46.)
14.
“Dulles
helped von Bolschwing emigrate to California, where he established a business
association with Helene van Damm, later Ronald Reagan’s ambassador to Austria.
In later years, his business went bankrupt and he was forced to surrender his
American citizenship on the grounds that he was a Nazi war criminal.” (Idem.)
15.
Next, the program
reviews Von Bolschwing’s career in the United States, after he was brought here
by Allen Dulles. Von Bolschwing worked for Gehlen and later became the head of
a parallel network to Gehlen’s in the United States. (“Ex-Nazi’s Brilliant U.S.
Career Strangled in a Web of Lies” by Pete Carey; San Jose Mercury News;
11/20/81.)
16.
In addition to his
stewardship of an electronics firm TCI (and its subsidiary International
Imaging Systems), von Bolschwing employed his protégé, Ms. van Damm in the
firm. (Idem.)
17.
The broadcast
highlights Helene van Damm’s role in selecting the lists of personnel that
Ronald Reagan used to select his cabinet appointments. (“Big Promotion for
Reagan’s Ex-Secretary;” San Francisco Chronicle; 8/3/82.)