| | | WOW - Newson is obviously corrupt and has been infected with a NAZI virus. NAZIs are very good at indoctrinating, there is no way Newson is not a NAZI.
How Thousands Of Nazis Were 'Rewarded' With Life In The U.S.
DAVIES: Did American intelligence officials in letting - getting these Nazis into the United States - did they fake their identities? Did they alter documents to allow them to get in?
LICHTBLAU: They did. They did. In at least a handful of cases that I examined - the CIA files on - they actively cleansed their records. They realized that guys who've been involved in senior levels - at senior levels of Nazi atrocities would not pass through immigration at the INS. And they basically removed a lot of the Nazi material from their files. One of the worst cases is that of a guy named Otto von Bolschwing was a top aide to Adolf Eichmann in a Jewish affairs office - Jewish affairs office. And von Bolschwing with the CIA's help - he had been a spy in Europe after the war. He was able to move in the mid-1950s to New York with a - essentially a white-washed history that passed through immigration. And there are a number of cases like that where these guys had worked for the CIA, usually in Europe and then were able to move to the United States with at least the tacit approval of the CIA and sometimes the active involvement in whitewashing their records.
DAVIES: Otto von Bolschwing is an interesting character because he was closely associated with Eichmann who the Israelis managed to kidnap from - was it Argentina? - I think...
LICHTBLAU: Yes. Argentina.
DAVIES: ...And brought him and put him on trial in Israel for war crimes, and von Bolschwing was concerned that that investigation would lead to him.
LICHTBLAU: Right, right.
DAVIES: How did he react?
LICHTBLAU: Yeah. No, it's a fascinating scene in 1960 when the Israelis had these bold kidnapping of Eichmann in Argentina. This sent tremors around the world. Most people saw this obviously as a great moment for justice and accountability. Eichmann became one of the great trials in 20th century history. But Otto von Bolschwing - his old aide - was living in New York at that time and was terrified. And there are documents showing that he then went back to his old handlers at the CIA who he had worked with as a spy during the 1950s and told them he was terrified that the Israelis were going to come after him next and that his name was going to come out at Eichmann's trial - which in fact it did. His name came out. Eichmann even credited him as one of the early pioneers of this policy of terrorizing the Jews in Germany and trying to get them to flee Germany before the concentration camps. So Eichmann credited von Bolschwing as one of his top aides at the trial. And von Bolschwing saw this coming.
The one exception that I found to that was Otto von Bolschwing's son, the Eichmann aide who had worked for the CIA. And I spent a lot of time talking to his son, a man who's now about 75 years old, Gus von Bolschwing, who was a lawyer and thought for years that his father was a Nazi resister, that he had worked with the anti-Hitlerites. And, you know, what he knew of the war years was sort of foggy, but, you know, he would say that he never heard his father utter an anti-Semitic word, you know, had no clue that he had these, you know, enormous skeletons in his closet, until 1981 when the Justice Department found him in California - in northern California, then in a nursing home. Von Bolschwing was quite ill from a terminal disease, and his son was confronted with all this evidence of his father's horrific past. |
|
