U.S. AGENTS REPORTEDLY AIDED WHITE RUSSIAN NAZI PUPPETS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100120048-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: February 19, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
19 February 1985
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ROCKLAND, Mass:, Feb. j8-A had no immediate response
former Justice Department "pros- One document "cited by Loftus.
ecutor.. today. released
..declassified was a 'letter from Radaslau Os-
Cold War documents-that he.:~:said ;:,trowsky, who Loffassaid was the
show U S intelligence ":agents head of the White Russian Nazis in
knowingly helped bring World War - `: exile :in' Germany. in.1952, ?.offering .'
II White Russian war - criminals to assistance to the =State'>Department
he United States in its intelligence war with the So- 1
he trut o -the ina~ter is that viets
the entire leadership cadre of Nazi Soon:. after he wrote the letter
, '
puppet governments were system .Ostrowsky came to >the '`United
atically . and knowingly' brought " to __States headed.- an American
'America," said attorney"John",Lof ` ,Nazi group,! according to,Loftus: He,!
tus, a , former; member of the Justice ,._ :. `resided in Michigan and New Jersey
Department team -that -helped hunt before dying in 1979, Loftus said..
. Nazis living,;in, th e_".-Unit' ed-*States ' ,.Loftus also : released a roster of
during;the Carter administration: ' 100 ; ' White Russian Nazi_ party
He' released the' formerly top- members=allegedly "war.. criminals
secret documents on the wartime and-- collaborators-who ` he said
White-Russian' Nazi'collaborators as" . 'held'~a-'State-' Department-backed:
',part of a?br ef-he-is'sending-to Con- party-convention meeting in -South-
gress outlining ".covert violations of River, NJ., in September?'1954.
congressional restrictions." Loftus said the covert 'recruitin
Loftus said .the documents rov 2Reratlon'was'headed bv'"Allen W S
-that State Department. officials Dulles, head-of the-Office of Policy"-'
some with connections to 'th Cen- - -' Coordination of the State Depart-
tral Intelligence ' A?encv ':after 11 1 ? meet `in ~1952`-and' CIA. --head in
World War II; brought, members of =r 1953,' 'and by -Frank:. Wisner, who
the "Nazi Party' in exile' from `Al was deputy assistant=, secretary of
lied-held rGermari to America be ?- state in -1947 and director -of" the
cause of their knowledge-of Eastern Office of Policy Coordination forthe
Europe and Russia `State Department;in1948 -~
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