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To: Bilow who wrote (112983)	8/27/2003 8:44:11 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Admit the truth: If the Nazis had started killing IRC members, they'd have abandoned the country as quickly as they could. That would have been rather counter-productive since it's quite likely that Nazi Germany effectively controlled the ICRC during WWII. Certainly the OSS perceived that to be the case during the war: nizkor.org One OSS document, dated Jan. 11, 1944, says: "A series of observations commenced by the French and continued by this organization indicate that the I.R.C.C. is probably controlled by the German I.S. The German delegate to the I.R.C.C. in Geneva is known to be a German agent and the head of the I.R.C.C. to be German controlled." The document adds: "Enough is known to warrant the assumption that any delegate of the I.R.C.C. should be considered a potential if not actual German I.S. agent." The letters I.S. stood for Intelligence Service. The OSS was the wartime U.S. intelligence agency and the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. Another document, dated Feb. 4, 1944, says: "Information has come from various sources which indicates that the International Red Cross may have a number of people in its organization and indeed, on its executive staff, who are either German agents or associates of German agents, and who are using the Red Cross...as a cover for the securing and transmitting of military information." In 1995, the ICRC, which coordinates Red Cross work around the world, acknowledge its "moral failure" during the war -- a reference to its failure to denounce atrocities against Jews and other minorities in Hitler's concentration camps..... **************** Of course, you ALREADY knew this, right?