POSSIBLE COVER-UP TO SHIELD NAZIS IS FOCUS OF RENEWED U.S. INQUIRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100140066-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: May 23, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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meet has Y l anted entry to this nine suspected war criminals had!
reopened investigations into a I.country. worked for and been paid by the Central
Possible caver_up involving suspected I Mr. Loftus first made public on the Intelligence Agency or the State or De.
Nazi war criminals living in America.: ( CBS News program "60 Minutes" last fence Departments.
The investigations are being cow. Sunday his charges that hundreds of . After the disclosure last week that the.
ducted by the Justice Department and I Nazi collaborators were illegally] files had been tampered with, Repro
the General: Accorntting Office. They , 'brout into the coun
War II to form an ants o after World sentative of the Heouter s Je udta~~ jr, chair-
concern allegations of a conspiracy to Masterminding Said, aryGuutnittee,
protect former Nazis and collaborators a c the efforts, he said, was; called on the accounting of8ceto
highly secret covert operations ''Its investigation and the com.1
who may have been smuggled into the ! agency close to the State De
United States by American intelligence called the Office of poliCoo Pertinent plied. looks like we were misled, said
agencies for cold war operations Mr.. Loftus, who has policy w Coordination.
a i John Tipton; the a
against the Russians. about his findings as a war crimes in- !! senior evaluator who also headed the
'Charges that the American authors- vests ator,provided a draft of the book 1978 investigation. The
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ties mishandled investigations of war I and documents to Representative Bar- the material from him Vlrddxkiwg
criminals date back at least i ney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat said, "would lead to the fact that there
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But the G.A.O. concluded in 1 10 978 that years, it on the the House Immigration Subcommittee of might be a conspiracy, yes.-.
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Could find no'evidence of a conspiracy book is tentatively ry Committee. The !StartedMaldng our
to impede the inquiries. Ir'earl~ scheduled for publi- ,13117
/ 200 cation later this year. Meanwhile, he said, "?We ve already
cases remain under investigation by a Mr. Loftus is now himself the sub ect started making our contact;" for the re-
unit of the Justice Department, the Of of Justice Department inquiries into his opened Inquiry. He called the task
fceof Special Investigations. disclosure of possibly confidential ma- ` pretty big a big as hell" but said he
` uments Under Review terial, according to a department offi- had no id a yet how long It House take.
cial. Mr. Loftus, now in private law To the annoyance of the House Immi-
Congressional Investigators are also Practice in Boston, denied releasing gration Subcommittee, the 17_ in. wing new information provided by any material not properly cleared by in- of vests w hich Mration. ' took Tipton man ' ab half
a former prosecutor in that office, in- ! tellsgenceauthorities. pion said, was as con.
chiding long-secret military documents 'Just Provided Records' sumed in gaining access to the int_Uw_
setting forth links that American intel:i- [.",l just provided Congreence ss files. T his time, he said, a new
Bence agencies Lad with Nazis and their the were supposed records provi es that access to files can
East Eurn y , pposed to get four years be barred only on the ground of national
pears collaborators. ago, he said... security by Presidential decree.
Episodes described in the documents- In the reopened Government investi - The flurry of new investigations
and other information collected by the g oons, the Justice .Department all. comes about a decade after a series of
fozmerprosecutcr, John Loftus, include I pounced last week that its criminal divi- disclosures raised questions about sus-
these cases: sign was looking into the removal, ap- Pected war criminals in Amelka
' and
Army officer working parently by the Defense Department, of the effectiveness of inv and
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gence after y World War Iacin W.. ce.-tain intelligence information from at the Immigration and Naturalization
fed least two files in military archives. . Service. After Congressional hearings
allowing some i'lazi collaborators to fal- The files were checked by the .Gen- Principally instigated by former Repre-
sify their applications for American eral As counting Office, an investigative Brooklyn Elizabeth Holtzman, now the
,visas in exchange for providing intelli- arm of Congress, as part of its conspir District Attorn
gence information. any inquiry from early 1977 to its co 1978. ey. the office
9Some former Nazis ens a Special Investigations was created in
entered ? the They dealt with two Byelorussian 1979 to centralize the cases
United States through lightly patrolled emigre tinder Justice Department in- According to Alan Rm.
Canadian and MecIcan border cross vestigation for atrocities in the Nazi. c. of the office, his staff is currently director
ings while others were routed throw cupied region of western Russia. The ' tigating 197 people suspected inves-
mtina and other cooperative ?h two, Emmanuel Jasiuk and Franz maned of being
Latin war criminals to determine if they lied
American countries. Kuchel, have since died. about their past to gain the
win 90ther former 'Nails arriveii oil later e tby Mr. , am oWas iscovvema year ccoasnt hors been i ensh ip? cothotal of g
cargo planes,. after being listed on the that the accounting office later said it April and charges have ~ brought
waybills as freight.. had never seen. Mr. Loftus also found a against 26
gone collaborator accused of killings note in one of the files. '~ people. ion Seven of the are
' "Do not cltsc;ose " !facing deportation and four others fac-
was identified and barred from ems- to G.A.O. until notified to do so." The I mfg action died. No one has
grating to America on five separate oa note was signed only "General Coun. ported. Yet been de-
castors. by. American counteriztelli- f eel and the Justice investigation is
aimed at learning where the directive
originated. One Justice Department of- ' f
ficia'.:+aid the Defeasf, Depart, cent ;vas; i
queried month; ago but has i?-~,.
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