1. A twitter essay on the CIA's Nazi recruitment program and National Review (trigger warning this will be depressing)
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2. This NY Times article shows CIA's Nazi recruitment more extensive than we thoughthttp://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/us/in-cold-war-us-spy-agencies-used-1000-nazis.html?referrer&_r=0 …
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3. Among those recruited was Otto von Bolschwing, mentor to Eichmann & author of policy papers on terrorizing Jews.
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4. One way to think about von Bolschwing is to make distinction between his recruitment & that of Wernher Von Braun & other Nazi scientists
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5. Von Braun was a terrible guy, participant in all sorts of horrors, but US recruitment based on his expertise in rocket science.
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6. The question is what was von Bolschwing an expert in? It wasn't rocket science. He was expert in torture and genocide.
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7. Von Bolschwing, other Nazis & East European Nazi collaborators recruited because of experience on Eastern Front in fighting Red Army
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8. Recruitment of Nazis inseparable from strand of USA Cold War policy that advocated "Rollback" -- i.e. fomenting war in USSR & Warsaw pact
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9. For Rollback to work, USA needed a reserve of military men with experience on Eastern front: Nazis and East European Nazi collaborators.
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10. The chief theorist of Rollback was James Burnham, CIA agent and later (in 1955) a founding editor of National Review.
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11. If you read the literature on Cold War Nazi recruitment, James Burnham's name pops up from time to time, in background.
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12. Burnham's title was consultant to CIA émigré program. He worked with Ukrainians & Poles interested in Rollback.
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