[Marxism] CIA Knew Eichmann's Hideout 2 Years Before He Was Caught

[Brian Shannon <Brian_Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Shortly before WWII broke out, the French Ambassador to Germany
reminded Hitler of what had happened during and after WWI, when he
remarked that he would "have the fear that as a result of the war,
there will be only one real victor -- Mr. Trotsky."

Of course, what he meant was that despite the inevitability of war,
they feared its post-war results.

This is what the agreements with Stalin at Yalta and Potsdam were
about; this is why some sections of the ruling class temporized
before plunging ahead into war; this is why Hitler imprisoned and
killed as many Communists and Socialists as possible; this is why the
U.S. alliance with Stalin was merely a temporary bargain (despite the
illusions of the U.S. CP and some others); this is why the leading
U.S. Social Democrat Paul Porter volunteered to go to Germany in 1944
to combat postwar influence of Communists in German trade unions;
this is why British Intelligence arrested Communists and tortured
them at the end of the war http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foi/story/
0,,1745684,00.html

And it is why the CIA did nothing about Eichmann, Barbie, and
hundreds (perhaps thousands) of others.

The cold war was not about Soviet expansion. It was about socialist
revolution.

Brian Shannon
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CIA knew where Eichmann was two years before he was caught
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington, 07 June 2006

The CIA knew the whereabouts of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann
in Argentina more than two years before his capture by Israeli
agents, but kept the fact secret to protect its anti-Communist
efforts in West Germany, according to newly declassified agency
documents.

The documents, among 27,000 pages of CIA records released by the
National Archives here, indicate that the agency was told in 1958 by
then West German intelligence that Eichmann was living under an alias
in the Buenos Aires area. But the CIA did nothing, and Eichmann - the
infamous organiser of the trains that carried Jews to the Nazi
extermination camps - was eventually seized by Mossad agents in 1960,
and flown back to Israel where he was tried and, in 1962, executed.

The CIA's inaction reflected the shift in US foreign policy goals
almost as soon as the Second World War was over, from hunting down
Nazi war criminals to enlisting help for the new priority of fighting
Communism, as it threatened to engulf not only all of Germany, but
parts of western Europe as well.

In the case of Eichmann, the documents show the CIA was desperate not
to compromise Hans Globke, a former Nazi who stayed on in West
Germany and helped organise anti-Communist initiatives there.

Eichmann was only one prominent former war criminal to benefit. In
1983, Washington admitted that US Army intelligence officers helped
the Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyons," flee to
Bolivia and escape prosecution by France after the war. A government
report at the time admitted that the officers "interfered with the
lawful and proper administration of justice" by protecting him after
he had been recruited as an anti-Communist spy.

Historians have chronicled how the US allowed in hundreds if not
thousands of Nazi regime members and former Nazi collaborators from
eastern European countries that fell under Soviet domination. "We
knew what we were doing," one senior CIA officer was quoted as saying
in a 1989 book."Any bastard as long as he was anti-Communist."

After Eichmann was captured, the CIA pressed US publications to keep
quiet about his connection with Globke. Life magazine, which had
bought Eichmann's memoirs, dropped a mention of Globke "at our
request," according to a memorandum from the then CIA director, Allen
Dulles.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article656938.ece

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