U.S. USE OF NAZIS DETAILED BY GAO REPORT AND AUTHOR

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2004
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• Publication Date: July 19, 1978
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tl~r r use of Nazis detailed
by GAD report and author
By Rochelle Saidel
NEW YORK (JTA)-The Judiciary sub-
committee on Immigration in the U.S. House
of Representatives is scheduled to hold pub-
lic hearings beginning July 19 on the use of
Nazi war criminals by American intelligence
agencies. This congressional group headed
by Rep. Joshua Eilberg (D-Pa.) has indi-
cated its dissatisfaction with a recent report
by the General Accounting Office (GAO), the
investigative arm of Congress, on the
hitherto secret employment of these accused
mass murderers.
A GAO report issued on May 15 stated that
there was no evidence of a widespread con-
spiracy within the U.S. government to cover
up the Nazi war criminal cases that have
been festering for almost 30 years. Charles
R. Allen, Jr., a preeminent expert and author
on Nazi war criminals, said he has been cal-
led as a witness by the subcommittee to as-
sist them in determining which war crimi-
nals have been used by what agencies.
The GAO report mentions an unnamed
journalist five times, and says that the CIA,
FBI, Defense Department and other agen-
cies had close ties with alleged Nazi war
criminals who entered the U.S. after World
War II. The unnamed journalist is Allen, who
says that he challenges the accuracy of the
"number of Nazi war criminals and col-
laborators that U.S. intelligence agencies
have admitted to the GAO that they utilized
over the last 30 years, without the knowledge
of the American public.
Allen said, the GAO report indicates his
series of articles entitled "Nazi War Crimi-
nals Among Us" first forced this issue pub-
licly onto the State Department and Justice
Department in 1963.
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The GAO report did not name specific Nazi
war criminals. One reference to the un-
named journalist takes up an entire page of
the 32-page text, using Allen's 1963'charges.
The report serves the purpose of at least hav-
ing made the agencies admit that they
utilized Nazi war criminals and col-
laborators, Allen said. How, When, and
Whom, they don't say, and the reason they
don't say is that the CIA, FBI and other of the
10 major U.S. intelligence agencies won't tell
them.
The GAO further found in its report that the
same unnamed journalist is now citing the
firgure of 254 for the number of Nazi war
criminals and collaborators living in the U.S.
This is only two more than the official Im-
migration and Naturalization Service's ad-
mission of knowledge of 252.
According to the GAO findings, the CIA
admits to having used Nazi war criminals
and the FBI admits having contacted 44 Nazi
.war criminals, and further admits to have
employed 7 of them. These figures are based
solely on a total 111 samplings from the list of
252.
"I can assure you," Allen said, "that the
GAO findings, while helpful, are well short of
the mark. I will shortly reveal all of the
names of the Nazi war criminals and col-
laborators that have been used by the 10
major intelligence agencies of the U.S. gov-
ernment, and also detail how they were
used." Allen said that he will make this in-
'formation available to the Judiciary sub-
committee and then hold a special press con-
ference in Washington, following the hear-
ings. He is currently working on a new book
on Nazi war criminals in America.
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