US used Nazis as Cold War spies

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US used Nazis as Cold War spies


Former FBI Director J Edgar Hoover (left) is said to have approved of the Nazi recruitment practice

Commentary: I think I heard about FBI after the Boston Bomb Blast. More about Boston, later.

Declassified US records reveal the nation's intelligence chiefs used hundreds of Nazis as spies and informants after World War Two.

Central Intelligence Agency officials are said to have turned to the country's former enemies to help beat the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Nazi collaborator Aleksandras Lileikis - linked to the massacres of tens of thousands of Jews in Lithuania - was recruited by the US as a spy in East Germany and later brought over to Boston.
The revelations come one week after an Associated Press investigation found the US government had paid dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals millions of dollars in Social Security benefits after forcing them to leave the US.

The payments were made through a legal loophole. The US justice department later said benefits are paid to individuals who renounce US citizenship and leave voluntarily.
Commentary: "Your usefulness is over. Now please get out, and don't embarrass us. Don't worry. We'll keep paying you."

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Looks like BBC published this article in an effort to win back the rational readers it has lost (to RT?). :lol:
 

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