NAZI WAR CRIMINALS/SEARCH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000201230004-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2008
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 5, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Nazi War Criminals/Search
[Film clip of the Battle of Normandy.]
Washington, DC
DONNA HANOVER: Forty years ago they faced each other as
enemies on the battlefields of Normandy. Now, former American
and German soldiers are gathering with thousands of fellow
veterans in northern France to mark the anniversary of D-Day.
Yesterday, former GIs laid a wreath commemorating their
fallen comrades, as did a contingent of former German paratroop-
ers. Tomorrow the dignitaries will stand where thousands fell
under a hail of gunfire and shells. President Reagan, Queen
Elizabeth and French President Mitterand will be among those
visitors, and they will remember the allied invasion which marked
the end of the Nazi empire.
But the murderous legacy of the Third Reich is still a
vivid memory for countless people all over the world who call it
the Holocaust. And they wonder just how many Nazi war criminals
managed to escape to South America without being punished for the
murders of millions in the death camps.
In a special report Ted O'Brien talks with one Boston
lawyer turned Nazi hunter who says there is some evidence U.S.
officials were to blame.
TED O'BRIEN: Forty years later the figures still shock
and stun: six million Jews, five million others deemed not quite
human, systematically murdered by the Nazi regime. One result
was the war crimes trial, the Judgment at Nuremburg. Now it
appears there was another, U.S. recruitment of and protection for
hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Nazi war criminals for use in
anti-communist intelligence operations.
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JOHN LUFTUS: Allan Dulles and a small group of U.S.
intelligence officials, mostly from within the State Department.
How many? No one knows. The West German prosecutor estimates
that 100,000 Nazi war criminals evaded arrest. Why? These were
the cream of the crop of the German war effort against Russia.
And Dulles thought that Truman was a fool, that the real enemy
was not Germany but communism.
[Clip of Germans saluting Hitler.]
O'BRIEN: SS Colonel Walter Rauh, who died peacefully in
his sleep earlier this month in South America, was among those
recruits. The man who coordinated the mobile SS gas vans that
killed thousands of Jews in eastern Europe and who commanded the
SS in Italy, torturing and murdering hundreds of allied agents
and partisans, why was he protected?
LUFTUS: The secret that Walter Rauh took with him to
his grave was that he'd been working for Allan Dulles even before
the war was over. Walter Rauh was part of a top secret negotia-
tion for the surrender and amnesty of SS officials in northern
Italy, "Operation Sunrise." Allan Dulles, the U.S. intelligence
chief in Switzerland, had his agents meet personally with Rauh
and arrange for the surrender.
O'BRIEN: Rauh and the others escaped along the Vatican
network of safe houses, monasteries and convents. They were
provided with the papers that they needed. Luftus says this
amounts to an American betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church.
LUFTUS: The Vatican did not know that the anti-
communist refugees that were coming out to their convents were
really SS intelligence officers working for Allan Dulles.
O'BRIEN: There's more to come, isn't there?
LUFTUS: I'm afraid this is only the tip of the iceberg.
O'BRIEN: In Boston, this is Ted O'Brien, for The
Independent News.
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