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Scientology? Yes, I have heard of it, I told the voice on the phone..."What has Scientology have to do with Army OP's? I asked. The voice continued briefly ...so I listened, not really clear why I was being tapped to start my civilian Army reserve status with this kind of assignment.
I was only home from being discharged from the U.S. Army for less than six months and thought I would have more time before called up to do some more "black OP's" (clandestine operations) for the Alphabet outfit that recruited me while in Panama. (Alphabet...CIA, DIA,DEA etc...*none of these)
The deal was, I would be released early so that I could address my medical issues from the "Jungle Fever" that I got in Central America. I was involved with the secret training and support for the Chilean overthrow of the dictator Allende.
Though just used as 'muscle' for my 'sniper expertise'...I was enlisted for later service so they could keep an eye on me. When hospitalized for the fever after the "Chilean affair" and another secret op, I was talking out loud in my delerium, and drew their unwanted attention, after they looked closer at my file and liked what they saw.
Because of my martial arts and eastern philosophy experience, they thought I was the "right guy" for the Scientology assignment. They gave me the name and busuness address of the person who would get me in the door, and he did, And HELL Followed...
Within two months just like my handler predicted, I had been recruited by Scientology's "Guardian Office"...their secret and most powerful office in Scientology, headed By L.Ron Hubbards wife, Mary Sue Hubbard.
I was hired to be an Assistant Guardian of Public Relations, sort of like an Assistant U.S. Attorney is to the U.S. Attorney, AG's were placed at Church of Scientology Orgs (Main area official church verses a 'Mission' that is franchised.) And I also was the Northern California Director for the National Commission on Law Enforcement and Social Justice (NCLE) a Scientology branch 501-c3 for the purpose of exposing Interpol and other police abusive activities. And of course to show Scientology's concern for Civil Liberties, helping their image with other groups I also worked with behind the scenes.
Obama's executive order giving INTERPOL unlimited access to U.S. law enforcement files and immunity from prosecution ought to scare the devil out of anyone who knows INTERPOL's history, and the fact that they are the "EU's" (European Union) 21st century "Gestapo".
Not subject to "Freedom of Information Act" nor court order and lawsuits.
When Nazi Germany took over "The International Police of Chiefs Organization" and formed Interpol, it's secret files with damaging evidence both true and false against leaders in the countries they soon took over by blackmailing and 'turning' their victims into double agents... and this is how the IRS/INTERPOL tandem infiltrated THE Church of Scientology (CoS).
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The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is the last fortress of protection for several hundred Nazis still living in the United States. Many of these war criminals escaped to the United States and found asylum in the very country where millions gave their lives to prevent such an atrocity. Some of those protected Nazis live here in Southern California. In an exclusive interview with the head of immigration for the Region Joseph Surack, a rather bizarre picture of Nazi protection develops.
Against the background of this interview one must examine what has been happening in Southern California for some years. The mounted battle against "Illegal aliens" if they are Mexican has been one of heated concern by some of the more conservative press. INS his attacked the area of illegal aliens and rounded
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SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 1975 VOL. 202-NO. 206
The Nazi Connection Part I
Interpol, with Ties to Reich, Gets Data on Americans
* First of three parts.
By MICHAEL OLESKER Staff Reporter
American law enforcement organizations - including Baltimore police - regularly provide top-secret information to a private international police agency whose top leaders, since World War II, have been former ranking officers in the German Gestapo and the Nazi SS. That information is contained in recently declassified U.S. and German documents about Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization.)
Interpol's president during the early war years was Rein hard Heydrich, who on Jan. 20, 1942, convened the meeting at which 15 top-ranking Nazis worked out the "final solution to the Jewish problem": mass execution.
The meeting was held at Interpol headquarters.
Its president from 1968 to 1971 (and German representative until 1973) was Paul Dickopf who, until he fled Germany when he apparently sensed the tide of victory turning, was SS officer 337259.
Interpol today, and historically, refuses to help search for wanted Nazi war criminals. Between Heydrich and Dickopf, records show Interpol'. top leadership included high ranking members and former members of the Third Reich.
Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies haw freely and regularly, exchanged confidential information with Interpol since 1947 by means of electronic communication links and exchange of personnel.
All of that information goes into Interpol's extensive in formation center and is also passed on to any of about 120 foreign countries.
Though it is a private agency officially attached to no particular government, Interpol receives direct funding from the U.S. Treasury Dept. and has its U.S. offices in the Treasury Building. Treasury Secretary William Simon said last week that no information can reach foreign hands through Interpol that would endanger either U.S. security or individual privacy. He said Interpol does not have direct access to highly confidential FBI records, but does have indirect access. Either directly or through the Treasury Dept., Interpol works with the FBI, Internal Revenue Service, Secret Service, Customs and other federal agencies.
It has access to the FBI's vast National Crime Information Center (NCIC).
And, as one government spokesman taking a hard look at Interpol said last week, "If everything the FBI has is in its NCIC computer and Interpol links with that, then the whole world has this information."
Interpol works directly with local police throughout the United States.
"We've done a considerable amount of work with the Baltimore Police Department," Louis Sims, Interpol's chief of American operations, remarked. "We do a lot of work with local police all over the country."
Col. Joseph Carroll, chief of detectives for Baltimore police, said he has given "sporadic" information to Interpol. No member of the police Inspectional Services Division (ISD), the police intelligence unit, would comment on any connection with Interpol.
Thomas Farrow, agent in charge of the FBI's Baltimore office, said he has exchanged information with Interpol, and
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Paul Kramer, deputy U.S attorney here, said his office gave Interpol information on at least one occasion - to try to track down convicted gambler Julius (Lord) Salsbury. No law enforcement person contacted in Baltimore conceded any knowledge of the lnterpol-Nazi connection.
And, while lnterpol chief Sims was quick to point out his agency's ties with U.S. organizations, he was unwilling to admit any links with the Third Reich.
Asked about Heydrich, the wartime Interpol chief, Sims said, "I've never heard the name before." Asked about Dickopf, who died in 1973 after heading lnterpol for four years, Sims said, "He was a German citizen who didn't desire to serve in the SS and fled to Switzerland."
But Dickopf, Sims admitted, joined the SS in 1938. His "desire not to serve" was not manifested until he fled four years later, when a number of Nazi leaders began to desert. Sims added, "Anyway, lnterpol didn't really exist luring the war."
That remark is consistent with repeated lnterpol testimony before Congress, when agency officials have claimed Interpol went out of business during World War 11, only to resurface thereafter.
But documents provided to Sen. Joseph Montoya's Treasury subcommittee by the Church of Scientology's National Commission on , Law Enforcement and Social Justice indicate exactly the opposite.
Because of those documents, Montoya a New Mexico Democrat, will hear testimony later this spring on the lnterpol-Nazi connection, and Rep. Edward Beard, D-R.I., last week called for a U.S. General Accounting Office investigation of Interpol.
A June 1962 Interpol document marked "strictly confidential" states that the agency "since 1940 had been run by the German chief of security police, (Reinhard) Heydrich."
Heydrich took office several months after Interpol's 1939 convention in Berlin, an affair sponsored - according to another Interpol document - by "the SS and chief of the German police Heinrich Himmler." Heydrich was assassinated in 1942, but until then, as Interpol president, he:
* Convened the meeting of 15 top Nazi leaders at Interpol headquarters in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee where, during a four-hour meeting, the "final solution to the Jewish problem" was mapped out: deportation to the east, forced labor and mass execution.. (Among those present at the meeting was Adolph Eichmann, to whom much of the "final solution" work fell:)
Ordered the "Kristallnacht" in November 1938 - the burning and destruction of Jewish synagogues in Germany and Austria.
As SS officer, Heydrich headed the "elite of the elite" intelligence service. When he was assassinated in 1942, more than 2 million Poles were killed in retribution. Heydrich was immediately succeeded as Interpol president by Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, whose photograph - in Gestapo chief uniform - graced the June 10, 1943 issue of Interpol's publication, "Internationale Kriminalpolizei.
Kaltenbrunner, an intimate of Eichmann and one of the earliest members of the Gestapo, was hanged at Nurenberg in 1946 for major war crimes.
(lnterpol chief Sims said last week he had "never heard" of Kaltenbrunner., Nor would he comment on publication of Interpol's magazine throughout the war years - when the agency supposedly did not exist.)
Other Third Reich leaders also were involved with Interpol. ' The "strictly confidential" 1962 lnterpol document says that' Arthur Nebe, "head of the Kriminalpolizei of the Reich," headed Interpol's International Bureau during the war. Nebe, believed still at large, directed one of the "mobile killing units" and assisted in Nazi "medical experiments" during the war. F.E. Louwage, who served on the Nazi Interpol staff under Kaltenbrunner, was Interpol president from 1946 to 1956.
During that time, he ran the Interpol offices from funds left over from wartime Interpol efforts.
But Interpol finances improved dramatically in 1968, when former SS officer Dickopf was elected president.
Interpol acknowledged, in its international publication, that "exceptional contributions" were made by unnamed persons in Switzerland, Venezuela and Brazil - reputed hideouts of former Nazis. Interpol chief Sims described his agency last week as "a middleman between overseas and U.S. agencies who want to exchange information - .-We deal with any American state, local or federal agency with a law enforcement function."
As part of that function, personnel from such U.S. agencies as the Secret Service, Customs, Drug Enforcement Agency and Alcohol, Tax and Firearms help staff Interpol's American offices.
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The Nazi Connection -- Part 2
Hoover Secretly Attended Meeting
* This is the second of three articles on Interpol, the international police agency whose staff includes prominent ex-Nazis.
By MICHAEL OLESKER Staff Reporter
The late FBI Director J Edgar Hoover established American law enforcement': Nazi Connection almost 30 years ago - by going behind the back of his own government. Hoover's actions are spelled out in recently declassified American and German documents about Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization.)
Documents show that former Secretary of State Dean Acheson warned of Interpol's "Nazi domination" and that a spokesman for former U, S. Atty. Gen. Tom Clark offered a "studied recommendation" that America not unite with Interpol after World War II.
But Hoover secretly attended Interpol's 1946 convention, was elected vice president of the agency, and the United States was inextricably entwined with the organization whose top officials since the war - and at least until 1973 - have been men who were leaders of the German Gestapo and the Nazi SS.
As reported in The Sunday News American, Interpol is a private police agency that receives top-secret information from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies - including Baltimore police.
Yet its history is marked by these names and events:
* Its president from 1968 to 1971 (and German representative until 1973) was Paul Dickopf, who until he fled Germany after four years in the German Security Guards was SS officer 337259.
Its president during the early war years was Reinhard Heydrich, head of the intelligence service of the SS, who on Jan. 20, 1942 - summoned 15 top Nazis to Interpol headquarters, where the "final solution to the Jewish problem" - mass execution - was worked out.
* When Heydrich was assassinated several months after the conference, he was succeeded as Interpol president by Dr. Ernst Kaltenbrunner, a Gestapo chief who was later hanged at Nurenberg for war crimes.
* Arthur Nebe, director of a German "mobile killing unit" and assistant in Nazi "medical experiments," headed Interpol's International Bureau during the war.
* F. E. Louwage, who served on the Nazi Interpol staff under Kaltenbrunner, was Interpol president from 1946 to 1956 and had J. Edgar Hoover as his vice president from 1946 to 1950, when an apparently furious Hoover pulled the FBI out of its direct link with Interpol. Under Louwage, an invitation was extended to the United States in May 1946 to join Interpol at its annual convention - with an obvious eye toward America's resuming the membership it had dropped during the war years.
But Acting Secretary of State Acheson, who received the invitation, immediately sent a memo to the Justice Dept. asking for advice, and adding:
"We assume this is same organization founded Vienna 1923, taken under Nazi domination 1938 and headquarters removed Berlin, at which time U.S. ceased relationship." A Dept. of State confidential memo signed "Kirk" followed quickly, confirming Interpol's background.
Immediately thereafter, a spokesman for U. S. Atty. Gen. Tom Clark followed with a memo flatly stating: "It is my studied recommendation that no represenative of the government of the United States be designated. to attend this meeting.
One year later, Acheson and Clark found that behind their backs Hoover had attended the meeting and had been elected vice president.
That information was transmitted to Acheson from the French Embassy in Washington, which extended invitations to that year's convention on behalf of Interpol. The memo notes:
"The Dept. of State will recall that the American delegate to the (Interpol) conference in 1946 was Mr. J. E. Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington."
Followup memos from Acheson and Clark indicate a
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sudden change of heart over Interpol with Acheson noting the agency "has been reconstituted." Clark added in a memo that Hoover had been elected vice president and, as such, "steps were taken (by Hoover) to make the FBI an official member of (Interpol)."
Thus was the United States entwined with the Nazi-dominated Interpol.
And the matter of Interpol's Nazi domination was never again brought to attention - until documents were presented to Sen. Joseph Montoya's Treasury subcommittee (which helps fund Interpol) by the Church of Scientology's National Commission on Law Enforcement and Social Justice.
The Treasury Dept. became the Interpol hookup, in 1950, when Hoover suddenly pulled the FBI out.
At the close of the war, some Communist countries - which, to this day, as member nations, receive American information through Interpol - joined the Interpol network. One of them, Czechoslovakia, used Interpol in 1950 to track down a group of refugees who had fled to West Germany.
When Hoover learned of it, he immediately pulled the FBI out and, when Louwage flew to Washington to plead with him to rejoin, Hoover refused.
Official explanation fox the FBI's pullout was given only as "special reasons," and it was left to the Treasury Dept. to continue America's Interpol relationship.
As part of that relationship,. U. S. law enforcement agencies regularly provide Interpol - and up to about 120 foreign police organizations - secret information.
Interpol has access to the FBI's vast National Crime Information Center (NCIC).
Because of its history - and today's questionable ties Sen. Montoya, D-N. Mex., will hold hearings this spring on Interpol, and Rep. Edward Beard, D-R. I., has called for a U. S. General Accounting Office investigation of Interpol. . ... TUESDAY: lnterpol 1975.
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The Nazi Connection Part III
Interpol Follows Jews, Ignores Their Killers
This is the last of three articles on Interpol, the private international police agency, and its affiliation with former Nazis, Gestapo members and SS agents. Baltimore is among the cities contributing to Interpol's information center.
By MICHAEL OLESKER Staff Reporter - Interpol, the private international police agency, won't lift a finger to track down Nazi war criminals.
But its files are filled with information on Jews it suspects of crimes.
The agency blames "the rules" for not tracking down Nazis - but, Interpol itself drew up those rules.
Interpol acts as a middleman for 120 countries that cooperate in tracking down persons wanted by police. But it has historically refused to cooperate in any effort to track down Nazi war criminals, saying its own charter does not allow it to do so. Its charter has not stopped it from making overt religious remarks in International Criminal Police Review, the agency's publication.
"Jewish offenders have a preference for offenses which require the use of craftiness," Interpol official Paul Marabuto wrote in the publication in April 1950.
"That explains why Interpol . . . has so many Jewish names in its files," he added. Those remarks, and the agency's unflinching refusal to pursue Nazi war criminals, are not terribly surprising, though, considering the agency's background.
Its president from 1968 to 1971 was Paul Dickopf, who until he fled Germany after four years in the Security Guards was SS officer 337259.
Its president during the early war years was Reinhard Heydrich, head of the elite intelligence service of the SS, who on Jan. 20, 1942 summoned 15 top Nazis to Interpol headquarters, where the "final solution to the Jewish problem" - mass execution - was plotted. Between Heydrich and Dickopf, recently declassified American and German documents show, Interpol's top officials included former ranking members of the German Gestapo and the Nazi SS.
Documents have recently been presented to Sen. Joseph Montoya's Treasury subcommittee - which funds Interpol - and to Rep. Edward Beard, D.R.I., who has called for a General Accounting Office investigation.
The documents were presented by the Church of Scientology's NationaI Commission on Law Enforce. ment and Social Justice.
Montoya, a New Mexico Democrat, and Beard are apparently concerned that Interpo1 receives top-secret information from federal, state and local (including Baltimore) police and that Interpol has access to the FBI's vast National Criminal Information Center.
"We're wondering if there's been any invasion of privacy," a Treasury subcommittee spokesman said last week. "Who is getting all of this information? What does the U.S. get in return? And how much information does Interpol get?
"And then there's the problem of its Nazi connections. Is Interpol a haven for Nazis? We're going to ask some very pointed questions."
Beard spokesman Morton Blender, who coincidentally covered the trial of Adolph Eichmann 14 years ago, said he was told:
"The whole idea of the Germans with Interpol was to make a Europe-wide police force, the core of which was the Nazis. It would be the Gestapo of the whole world, a secret police."
Treasury officials rejected the criticism, however, defending Interpol as a valuable mechanism for tracking down international criminal suspects.
In a statement to Sen. [missing letters]inued from Page 1A [missing letters] toya, Treasury Secretary William E. Simon said last week that Interpol's operations were discontinued during the war and that member countries rejoined only in 1956.
That coincides with the official Interpol line, but does not hold up with newly declassified war documents.
Simon denied that Interpol has direct access to the FBI information center, saying that any requests for information must first be run through the U.S. National Central Bureau. That, Simon indicated, assures that no information can reach foreign hands that would endanger individual privacy or American security.
Simon listed about a dozen cases in which U.S. police' took advantage of Interpol, and about a half-dozen cases in which foreign police did likewise.
The cases, which took place within the past few years, involve such matters as murder, drug trafficking, deportation and illegal passports.
None concerned pursuit of Nazi war criminals.
The Interpol charter says the agency does not pursue "political" criminals, prompting a Washington critic to say last week, "What they're saying is that genocide is political." Interpol's stance on nonpursuit of Nazis prompted the American Jewish Congress to charge the agency with lending "an unexpected sense of safety" to such criminals in .hiding. Yet Interpol is recognized by the United Nations as a legitimate (though private) intergovernmental organization.
As Simon said last week, "This special arrangement gives both organizations broad opportunities to take part in discussions on matters of common interest."
The UN link - established in 1971 - gave Interpol something else - added credibility. For an organizations whose roots were planted - and flourished - in Nazi Germany, that was a major step forward.
End of series.
Interpol, The Vatican
And The Jesuits - Part 1
The Nazi Connection
By Sherman H. Skolnick
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Some time before World War Two, Adolf Hitler took over the International Police. A top official of INTERPOL, with dual capacity was the Director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover. His office as Vice President of Interpol was in the U.S. Treasury Building, Washington, D.C.
I am one of the few that dares mention the dirty little secret of the FBI. They were formed in the 1920s, in what I describe, as from the mists and vapors of antiguity. Then and now, it operates without a Charter. It has no statutory or other authority to exist at all.
Whatever you conclude about the American CIA, good or bad, but THEY operrate under a Charter that formed them in 1947. I perhaps offend some by saying that know-nothings and naive people from time to time demand that I answer why someone does not stop the FBI from proceeding. That requires a long, perhaps philosophical answer which I do not wish to burden anyone with. Plainly, I do not have the power to stop FBI.
As to Interpol, toward the end of World War Two, Nazi officials, some of them having committed war crimes, had their escape from Europe arranged by the Pontiff. As a cover he arranged for them Vatican passports. Dressed in garments befitting priests, they escaped down what some authors described as "The Ratline".
Many of these Gestapo and other Nazi officials were on an Allied list of those to be questioned and presumably prosecuted at the Nuremberg Tribunal and elsewhere. Most of them ended up in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, AND A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION IN THE UNITED STATES.
To understand South America, it must be understood that by1910, some thought Argentina might well out-distance the U.S. in business and other developments.
During World War Two, Argentina was pro-Nazi. Having become a shipping magnate prior to the conflict, Aristotle Onassis during the war used Argentine ships, immune from German U-Boats and Nazi "pocket battleships", to transport war goods to Germany.
The Patriarch of the Kennedy Family, Joseph P. Kennedy, returned from London in 1940 having been U.S. Ambassador. [Kennedy, despite being Irish, was acceptable to pro-Nazi British royalty. As a major bootlegger criminal with paid-for corrupt immunity in the 1920s, he heavily smuggled Scotch Whiskey items into the U.S. to benefit the British Monarchy.]
Kennedy tried to tell President Franklin D. Roosevelt to remain neutral, not to get involved in Europe's war, because, said Kennedy, Hitler was winning. As having been highly corrupt Maritime Commissioner in the Roosevelt White House, Kennedy already was into lucrative corrupt deals with shipping tycoon Onassis.
With the war-time Nazi complicity of Argentina and that of "Founding Father" Kennedy, Aristotle became fabulously wealthy.
With the aid of the Pope's "Ratline", and aid and comfort provided by the pro-Nazi Catholic Church and Jesuit Hierarchy in Argentina, Buenos Aires became a protected haven for war criminals.
So, for many years after the war, Hitler's brain-child, Interpol, was dominated principally by escaped Nazi war criminals.
What was Interpol's specialty? Using their worldwide telecommunications empire, Interpol sent out, throughout the planet, urgent bulletins to law enforcement authorities: That WANTED as fugitives from justice, were various persons, principally small-time and medium businessmen. A revealing compilation of these WANTED orders showed that many of those thus fingered and to be held in custody until further notice, had Jewish surnames. Upon further scrutiny, the offenses that these Jews were wanted for, were mostly petty matters most possibly not at all valid crimes. Certainly such small-time deeds did not warrant worldwide declarations as if they were all bank robbers and such.
Bluntly put, these post-War surviving Nazis, supported by The Church, and the Jesuit Hierarchy, were continuing their blood-lust. "Jews killed Jesus. We are going to get YOU!"
J. Edgar Hoover, in his role with Interpol, certainlky was beset by strange cross-currents. A highly corrupt booze baron named Rosenstiel, to bribe Hoover set up a foundation to profit Hoover under the table. Purportedly a Jew, Rosenstiel ran Schenley. Even more strange, Rosenstiel's firm had as a secret owner pro-Nazi Joseph P. Kennedy.
For further reading, supporting and related matters:
"Interpol Exposed", Nexus Magazine, July/August, 1991;
"The Nazi Connection To The John F. Kennedy assassination" by Mae Brussell, Rebel Magazine, 11/22/83, very extensive details about the Nazis;
"Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover", by Anthony Summers
"Aftermath" by Ladislas Farago
"RATLINES: How the Vatican's Nazi Networks Betrayed Western Intelligence To The Soviets" by Mark Aarons
"Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII" by John Cornwell; "Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O., and The Love Triangle That Brought Down The Kennedys" by Peter Evans.
Revised Version
December 2009, President Obama quietly signed an executive order that makes an international police force immune from the restraints of American law.
Interpol is the shorthand for the International Criminal Police Organization. It was established in 1923 and operates in about 188 countries. By executive order 12425, issued in 1983, President Reagan recognized Interpol as an international organization and gave it some of the privileges and immunities customarily extended to foreign diplomats. Interpol, however, is also an active law-enforcement agency, so critical privileges and immunities (set forth in Section 2(c) of the International Organizations Immunities Act) were withheld. Specifically, Interpol’s property and assets remained subject to search and seizure, and its archived records remained subject to public scrutiny under provisions like the Freedom of Information Act. Being constrained by the Fourth Amendment, FOIA, and other limitations of the Constitution and federal law that protect the liberty and privacy of Americans is what prevents law-enforcement and its controlling government authority from becoming tyrannical.
Interpol works closely with international tribunals (such as the International Criminal Court — which the United States has refused to join because of its sovereignty surrendering provisions, though top Obama officials want us in it). It also works closely with foreign courts and law-enforcement authorities (such as those in Europe that are investigating former Bush administration officials for purported war crimes — i.e., for actions taken in America’s defense).
Ronald Noble Interpol Chief: Obama Key Man for European Union "Secret Service"
Ronald Kenneth Noble (born 1956, at Fort Dix, New Jersey) is an Americanlaw enforcement officer, and the current Secretary General of INTERPOL.
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He is a 1979 graduate of the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore School of Business and Economics with a bachelor's degree in economics and business administration and a 1982 graduate of Stanford Law School. Mr. Noble also is a tenured professor at the New York University School of Law, on leave of absence while serving at INTERPOL.
From 1993 until 1996 he was the Undersecretary for Enforcement of the United States Department of the Treasury, where he was in charge of the United States Secret Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, theFederal Law Enforcement Training Center, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.[1] He was head of the Department's "Waco Administrative Review Team" which produced a report on the ATF's actions against the Branch Davidians leading to the Waco Siege.[2]
He was elected the first American Secretary General by the 69th INTERPOL General Assembly in Rhodes, Greece, in 2000, was unanimously re-elected to a second five-year term by the 74th INTERPOL General Assembly in Berlin, Germany, in 2005 and was unanimously re-elected to a third five-year term by the 79th INTERPOL General Assembly in Doha, Qatar, in 2010. INTERPOL is the largest international police organization serving 188 countries with a current budget of $72.2 million for 2008.[3]
During his September 20, 2005 acceptance speech in Berlin, the re-elected Secretary General stated:
Less than one year after my confirmation, Al Qaeda terrorists used US soil and US targets to murder thousands of U.S. citizens and citizens from more than 70 of our member countries spread around the globe. On September 11, 2001, the entire world’s attention was finally drawn to the importance of the anti-terrorism fight. On that day, we as a world community were put on notice by Al Qaeda that our personal and national security could never again be taken for granted. It does not matter where you were. It does not matter what you were doing. Each and every one of you can remember where you were when you first learned about or first saw images of the terrorist attacks on New York’s World Trade Center on the 11th of September 2001. For INTERPOL, the 11th of September was a moment of reckoning. It was the time for us to decide what kind of international police organization we wanted INTERPOL to be. Although INTERPOL had been created over 80 years ago by police chiefs to provide operational police support internationally, something had happened to INTERPOL over the years. INTERPOL had become so slow, so unresponsive that in many police circles around the world INTERPOL was considered irrelevant to their day-to-day needs. But, it was on September 11, 2001 that INTERPOL went operational and that we committed ourselves to working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year to support our NCBs and police services. And it was on that day that we first began reaching out to you in times of crisis, rather than waiting for you to ask for help. One can say that INTERPOL was reborn on the 11th of September 2001.[4]
Under Secretary General Noble's leadership, INTERPOL developed the world's first global database of stolen or lost travel documents (i.e., passports) from more than 120 countries and the first global police communications system, called I-24/7 as part of its international screening process for terrorists and dangerous criminals.
He created the world's first international automated DNA database and another automated database aimed at fighting the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet. During his 2000-2007 tenure, nearly 22,000 wanted international criminals were arrested, he directed the opening of a new INTERPOL office at the United Nations in 2004 and another office at the European Union in Brussels, increased the nationalities of their staff from 52 to 80; created a bioterrorism prevention unit at the General Secretariat in Lyon and planned the formation of the first International Anti-Corruption Academy in Vienna, Austria.
In 2008, he was awarded the Légion d'honneur by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.[5]
Why would we elevate an international police force above American law? Why would we immunize an international police force from the limitations that constrain the FBI and other American law-enforcement agencies? Why is it suddenly necessary to have, within the Justice Department, a repository for stashing government files which, therefore, will be beyond the ability of Congress, American law-enforcement, the media, and the American people to scrutinize?
Corrupted mindsets "runs downhill." The Secret Service under the U.S. Department of Treasury has had agents that operate under less than honorable leadership in Treasury. Treasury agents travel all over the world tracking down counterfeiters and assassination threats to the U.S. President .Their intel & access is coveted by all Spy Agencies friend and foe.
The following is taught in every War College in the World and all Intelligence agencies.
"There are five kinds of spies that can be employed: local (yin) spies, inside agents, double agents, expendable spies, and unexpendable spies. When the five kinds of spies are all active, and no one knows their methods of operation (tao), this is called the imperceptible web, and is the ruler's treasure.
The following is taught in every War College in the World and all Intelligence agencies.
"There are five kinds of spies that can be employed: local (yin) spies, inside agents, double agents, expendable spies, and unexpendable spies. When the five kinds of spies are all active, and no one knows their methods of operation (tao), this is called the imperceptible web, and is the ruler's treasure.
Local spies are the enemy's own countrymen in our employ.
Inside agents are enemy officials we employ.
Double agents are enemy spies who report to our side.
Expendable spies are our own agents who obtain false information we have deliberatly leaked to them, and who then pass it on to the enemy spies.
Unexpendable spies are those who return from the enemy camp to report.
Thus, of those close to the army command, no one should have more direct access than spies, no one should be more liberally rewarded than spies, and no matters should be held in greater secrecy than those concerning spies" Sun Tzu Art Of War
Richard Nixon used Secret Service agents and the FBI to gather dossiers to create his infamous "Dirty Tricks List:...where he also inserted disinformation and out and out lies to discredit and ruin those he feared with a paranoid obsession.
Louis B. Sims
Louis B, Sims was one of his top agents he used in many unconstitutional activities. I faced off with the man named Louis B. Sims. Treasury Agent, and on loan to INTERPOL as head of U.S. INTERPOL housed in the basement of the U.S. Treasury Building in D.C. Sims also was former Army Intelligence, and I had some back channel intel on him. Former Secret Service Agent Abraham Bolden claims Agent in Dallas were drunk on duty.
Abraham Bolden Former Secret Service Agent
Sims has been involved in everything...he was in Dallas when JFK was Assassinated, and Secret Service agents Louis B. Sims and Raymond C. Zumwalt, both assigned to the technical services division at the White House were in charge of maintaining the elaborate eavesdropping operation at the White House and changing the tapes,of Nixon tape cover-up according to the sources revealed in the 'Watergate Hearings."
Louis B. Sims---1950's: served three years with U.S. Army Intelligence at Fort Holabird, MD (Entered Secret Service in 4/61 and assigned to Chicago office until 1/64*; 1/64-12/65: WFO ; 12/65-7/69: Intelligence Division; 7/69-11/72: Liaison Section; 11/72-9/74: Technical Security Division; 9/74 until at least 5/78: Chief of Interpol)]*a member of the Chicago office with Bolden; also attended Bolden's trial (Bolden was in a cell across from Nagell for a time. Abraham Bolden grew up in ersitEast St. Louis, Illinois.[1] After receiving a degree in music from Lincoln Univy of Missouri,[2] he began his professional career as an Illinois state trooper. He joined the Secret Service in 1960 during the Eisenhower administration. In 1961, he became the first African American member of the Secret Service's Presidential Protective Division after being appointed by President John F. Kennedy.[3] According to Bolden, Kennedy personally invited him to join the White House Detail when the two met at an event in Chicago in April.[4] He worked in the dual capacities of guarding the President and investigating counterfeiting.[5]
In the wake of the 1963 John F. Kennedy assassination, Bolden contacted the Warren Commission, hoping to testify about an alleged assassination plot in Chicago two weeks before Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. He traveled to Washington but before he could testify, Bolden was returned to Chicago. There he was arrested on May 20, 1964 on federal charges that he had solicited a bribe from a counterfeiting ring that he had helped break.[6] He was accused of seeking $50,000 in exchange for a secret file on the investigation.[7] The government's case rested primarily on the testimony of two men, Frank Jones and Joseph Spagnoli, both facing felony charges originating from the same Secret Service office that Bolden was employed, and who were facing upcoming trials before the same Chicago court. The case against Jones was dismissed after the Bolden conviction.[8] The copy of the secret government file on the Spagnoli counterfeiting operation that Bolden allegedly put up for sale was never recovered, last being seen in the Chicago offices of the Secret Service, disappearing before charges were brought against Bolden. Bolden was neither accused of receiving, nor was he ever found to be in possession of any illicit funds from the accused felons who testified against him. He maintained his innocence, asserting that he had been framed because he planned to expose dereliction among the agents assigned to guard Kennedy in front of the Commission. The Secret Service denied Bolden's claims. United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Edward Hanrahan, was quoted in news reports from May 1964, as calling Bolden's assertion of "overall general laxity" of Secret Service agents assigned to the late President Kennedy, and Bolden's belief he was prosecuted for doing so, as "fantastic". Hanrahan implied Bolden should have brought the charges in 1961. Bolden claimed he did just that, to James J. Rowley, the head of the Secret Service, but without result. Lewiston Tribune, May 21, 1964. Bolden's first jury deadlocked 11-1 in favor of conviction, at which time presiding judge Joseph Sam Perry issued an Allen charge in which he expressed his belief that Bolden was guilty but that the jury was free to disregard his opinion. The jury remained deadlocked and Perry declared a mistrial on July 11, 1964. A black female juror was the sole vote against conviction. The second trial had an all white jury. In the retrial Bolden was convicted and Judge Perry sentenced him to six years in prison.[3] Bolden appealed his conviction to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, based in part on Perry's Allen charge in the first trial. Bolden claimed that the charge was evidence that Perry was not impartial and that his failure to recuse himself denied Bolden a fair trial. The Appeals Court disagreed and upheld Bolden's conviction in a decision issued December 29, 1965.[8]
Following his release from prison, Bolden worked as a quality control supervisor in the automotive industry until his retirement in 2001.[9]
In January 1978, Abraham Bolden gave testimony on his experiences as an agent with the Secret Service to investigators of the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U. S. House of Representatives. The Final Report of that Committee, released in March 1979 included these conclusions: "The Secret Service possessed information that was not properly analyzed, investigated, or used by the Secret Service in connection with the president's trip to Dallas; in addition, Secret Service agents in the motorcade were inadequately prepared to protect the president from a sniper." National Archives of the United States.
In 2008, Bolden published his memoir, The Echo From Dealey Plaza: The True Story of the First African American on the White House Secret Service Detail and His Quest for Justice After the
Assassination of JFK see video click below
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From “The Washington Post,” 7/17/73 : " Reliable government sources said yesterday that Alfred Wong, the former head of the technical services division for the Secret Service at the White House [On JFK’s 9/24/63 Milford, PA trip], was in charge of installing the listening devices. Wong had recommended James W. McCord Jr., who was later convicted in the Watergate case, for McCord's position as head of security at the President's re-election committee. Secret Service agents LOUIS B. SIMS and Raymond C. Zumwalt, both presently assigned to the technical services division at the White House were in charge of maintaining the elaborate eavesdropping operation at the White House and changing the tapes, according to the sources." [Emphasis added; as we know, SAIC of PRS Robert Bouck was in charge of the taping system during JFK’s time in office]
Richard Case Nagell---7/1/54: assigned to Army's Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) School at Fort Holabird, MD, serving in this capacity for several years. At the time the HSCA reviewed the Secret Service's CO2/ JFK-threat files on 4/20/78 which included a synopsis re: Nagell , Lawson was the SAIC of the Secret Service's Liaison Division, while Sims was the Chief of Interpol (and, of course, ALL three were investigated/ contacted by the HSCA)!
Sims even had Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple associations:
Within Peoples Temple, there was always suspicion of intelligence agency ... he also swore that Conn had bragged of his ties with the Treasury Department. ... through a document authored by a known Interpol agent, Louis B. Sims, ..{.excerpted from CIA docs.}
Louis B. Simms Treasury/Interpol Agent was agent at assasination...google "Louis B. Simms Warren Report" see (Time magazine report at that site also Washington Post and Ref House of representatives RIF# 180-10093-10022HSCA interview w/ Simms 5-22-78
Sims was With Nixon as his Chief of technical security, oversaw Oval office tapes that brought Nixon down andd is the one who erased the missing minuets, that they knew of.
Nixon resigned and instead of Sims fading into obscurity, he was made Chief of U.S.Interpol but remained as Treasury Secret Service Agent simultaneously even though Interpol is a privately owned company of Nazi SS origin.
Richard Case Nagell---7/1/54: assigned to Army's Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) School at Fort Holabird, MD, serving in this capacity for several years. At the time the HSCA reviewed the Secret Service's CO2/ JFK-threat files on 4/20/78 which included a synopsis re: Nagell , Lawson was the SAIC of the Secret Service's Liaison Division, while Sims was the Chief of Interpol (and, of course, ALL three were investigated/ contacted by the HSCA)!
Sims even had Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple associations:
Within Peoples Temple, there was always suspicion of intelligence agency ... he also swore that Conn had bragged of his ties with the Treasury Department. ... through a document authored by a known Interpol agent, Louis B. Sims, ..{.excerpted from CIA docs.}
Louis B. Simms Treasury/Interpol Agent was agent at assasination...google "Louis B. Simms Warren Report" see (Time magazine report at that site also Washington Post and Ref House of representatives RIF# 180-10093-10022HSCA interview w/ Simms 5-22-78
Sims was With Nixon as his Chief of technical security, oversaw Oval office tapes that brought Nixon down andd is the one who erased the missing minuets, that they knew of.
Nixon resigned and instead of Sims fading into obscurity, he was made Chief of U.S.Interpol but remained as Treasury Secret Service Agent simultaneously even though Interpol is a privately owned company of Nazi SS origin.
The News American
Baltimore Maryland
SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 1975 VOL. 202-NO. 206
The Nazi Connection Part I
Interpol, with Ties to Reich, Gets Data on Americans
* First of three parts.
By MICHAEL OLESKER Staff Reporter
American law enforcement organizations - including Baltimore police - regularly provide top-secret information to a private international police agency whose top leaders, since World War II, have been former ranking officers in the German Gestapo and the Nazi SS. That information is contained in recently declassified U.S. and German documents about Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization.)
Interpol's president during the early war years was Rein hard Heydrich, who on Jan. 20, 1942, convened the meeting at which 15 top-ranking Nazis worked out the "final solution to the Jewish problem": mass execution.
The meeting was held at Interpol headquarters.
Its president from 1968 to 1971 (and German representative until 1973) was Paul Dickopf who, until he fled Germany when he apparently sensed the tide of victory turning, was SS officer 337259.
Interpol today, and historically, refuses to help search for wanted Nazi war criminals. Between Heydrich and Dickopf, records show Interpol'. top leadership included high ranking members and former members of the Third Reich.
Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies haw freely and regularly, exchanged confidential information with Interpol since 1947 by means of electronic communication links and exchange of personnel.
All of that information goes into Interpol's extensive in formation center and is also passed on to any of about 120 foreign countries.
Though it is a private agency officially attached to no particular government, Interpol receives direct funding from the U.S. Treasury Dept. and has its U.S. offices in the Treasury Building. Treasury Secretary William Simon said last week that no information can reach foreign hands through Interpol that would endanger either U.S. security or individual privacy. He said Interpol does not have direct access to highly confidential FBI records, but does have indirect access. Either directly or through the Treasury Dept., Interpol works with the FBI, Internal Revenue Service, Secret Service, Customs and other federal agencies.
It has access to the FBI's vast National Crime Information Center (NCIC).
And, as one government spokesman taking a hard look at Interpol said last week, "If everything the FBI has is in its NCIC computer and Interpol links with that, then the whole world has this information."
Interpol works directly with local police throughout the United States.
"We've done a considerable amount of work with the Baltimore Police Department," Louis Sims, Interpol's chief of American operations, remarked. "We do a lot of work with local police all over the country."
Col. Joseph Carroll, chief of detectives for Baltimore police, said he has given "sporadic" information to Interpol. No member of the police Inspectional Services Division (ISD), the police intelligence unit, would comment on any connection with Interpol.
Thomas Farrow, agent in charge of the FBI's Baltimore office, said he has exchanged information with Interpol, and
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Sunday, March 16, 1975 THE NEWS AMERICAN
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Paul Kramer, deputy U.S attorney here, said his office gave Interpol information on at least one occasion - to try to track down convicted gambler Julius (Lord) Salsbury. No law enforcement person contacted in Baltimore conceded any knowledge of the lnterpol-Nazi connection.
And, while lnterpol chief Sims was quick to point out his agency's ties with U.S. organizations, he was unwilling to admit any links with the Third Reich.
Asked about Heydrich, the wartime Interpol chief, Sims said, "I've never heard the name before." Asked about Dickopf, who died in 1973 after heading lnterpol for four years, Sims said, "He was a German citizen who didn't desire to serve in the SS and fled to Switzerland."
But Dickopf, Sims admitted, joined the SS in 1938. His "desire not to serve" was not manifested until he fled four years later, when a number of Nazi leaders began to desert. Sims added, "Anyway, lnterpol didn't really exist during the war." That is untrue, Interpol was absorbed by the Gestapo.
So it is not surprising that the less than morally sound can rise to the level that the" Colombian Scandal Squad" achieved.
Like the military, the leadership is to be held responsible and heads should roll all the way to the top. When it has been customary for an agency to blindly obey corrupted leadership, it becomes the norm to enlist those who will compromise their oath to defend the Constitution.
The Treasury to this day has secret affiliations that are not sanctioned by their scope and purpose under the Constitution and Agency Charter..
The INTERPOL is Nazi organization who also was and is ODESSA. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Odessa
As early as 1947, Simon Wiesenthal began to identify escape routes used by Nazis to escape from Germany. The main route he discovered was from the small Bavarian town of Memmingen to Innsbruck, Austria. From there, it was possible to cross into Italy over the Brenner pass. Wiesenthal later learned the Nazis referred to this as the "B-B" route, from Bremen in Germany to the Italian port of Bari. He also knew that the fugitives had little or no difficulty obtaining false papers and seemed to have enough money available in their new home to establish comfortable new lives. Wiesenthal concluded a secret organization with substantial resources had to be involved in helping fugitive Nazis. The seeds of that project were planted before World War II ended.
By 1944 it was clear that the fortunes of war had turned against Nazi Germany. Many Germans began to anticipate defeat and to plan for that eventuality. On August 10, 1944, a secret meeting of top German industrialists and bankers was held at the Maison Rouge hotel in Strasbourg to devise a means of insuring a secure future for Nazis. Among those attending were coal tycoon Emil Kirdorf, Georg von Schnitzler of IG Farben, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, steel magnate, Fritz Thyssen, and banker Kurt von Schroeder.
The Nazis recognized that Germany's assets would fall into the hands of the rapidly approaching enemy if they were not transferred and hidden. The nation's wealth, much of it acquired through the plunder of the nations it invaded and the people the Nazis murdered, had to be transferred so they would be out of judicial reach, but accessible to fund a future movement to resurrect the party and build a new Reich. Leading Nazi officials also feared retribution from the Allies and, rather than face likely punishment for their war crimes, they decided to seek safe havens outside Germany, and beyond the reach of justice. According to the protocol from the meeting:
The party leadership is aware that, following the defeat of Germany, some of her best-known leaders may have to face trial as war criminals. Steps have therefore been taken to lodge the less prominent party leaders as "technical experts" in various German enterprises. The party is prepared to lend large sums of money to industrialists to enable every one of them to set up a secret post-war organization abroad, but as collateral it demands that the industrialists make available to it exisitng resources abroad, so that a strong German Reich may re-emerge after the defeat.....
The outcome of the meeting in Strasbourg was the genesis of an organization; one well-financed and well-organised, with the express purpose of helping fleeing Nazis escape justice. This organization was called the "Organization Der Ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen" ( "The Organization of former SS members) — better known as Odessa.
Wiesenthal learned of Odessa accidentally during conversations with a former member of German counter-espionage who he met during the Nuremberg trials.The source said the organization was set up in 1946 after many Nazis already had been imprisoned. Those in jail contacted friends and aid committees that had been established to promote the welfare of prisoners. The assistance often went beyond humanitarian aid to abetting their escape.
In short order, Odessa, built a large and reliable network geared to achieve its ends, and began operations. Routes were mapped and contacts were established. Influential Nazis vanished as they were secretly ushered out of Germany and assisted in starting new lives under false names in foreign countries. At the end of the war, only a handful of high-ranking Nazi officials stood trial. Many who were guilty of war crimes escaped with the help of Odessa.
Some war criminals remained in Germany and took on new identities, managing to get themselves smuggled out of Germany and to freedom during the chaos at the end of hostilities. An underground network called "Die Spinne" (The Spider) supplied false papers and passports, safe houses, and contacts that could smuggle war criminals across the un-patrolled Swiss borders. Once into Switzerland, they moved on quickly to Italy, using what some called "The Monastery Route." Roman Catholic priests, especially Franciscans, helped Odessa move fugitives from one monastery to the next until they reached Rome. According to Wiesenthal, one Franciscan monastery, Via Sicilia in Rome, was virtually a transit station for Nazis, an arrangement made possible by a bishop from Graz named Alois Hudal. Wiesenthal speculates that the motive for most of the priests was what he viewed as a misguided notion of Christian charity. Once in Italy, the fugitives were out of danger, and many then dispersed around the globe.
Some countries may not have known about their new immigrants' pasts, but many did and chose to look the other way. Others, including the United States, looked to exploit the knowledge of Nazis. Fascist countries, such as Spain under Franco, as well as those in South America, became safe havens. The establishment of the state of Israel after World War II led some Arab nations to welcome Nazis who shared their hatred of the Jews in the hope they would use their experise in areas such as rocketry to tilt the balance in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Adolf Eichmann was one of the most notorious of the Nazis to escape Germany thanks to ODESSA, but he was eventually captured in South America by Israeli Intelligence agents and brought back to Israel to stand trial for his crimes against the Jewish people.
The INTERPOL is Nazi organization who also was and is ODESSA. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Odessa
As early as 1947, Simon Wiesenthal began to identify escape routes used by Nazis to escape from Germany. The main route he discovered was from the small Bavarian town of Memmingen to Innsbruck, Austria. From there, it was possible to cross into Italy over the Brenner pass. Wiesenthal later learned the Nazis referred to this as the "B-B" route, from Bremen in Germany to the Italian port of Bari. He also knew that the fugitives had little or no difficulty obtaining false papers and seemed to have enough money available in their new home to establish comfortable new lives. Wiesenthal concluded a secret organization with substantial resources had to be involved in helping fugitive Nazis. The seeds of that project were planted before World War II ended.
By 1944 it was clear that the fortunes of war had turned against Nazi Germany. Many Germans began to anticipate defeat and to plan for that eventuality. On August 10, 1944, a secret meeting of top German industrialists and bankers was held at the Maison Rouge hotel in Strasbourg to devise a means of insuring a secure future for Nazis. Among those attending were coal tycoon Emil Kirdorf, Georg von Schnitzler of IG Farben, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, steel magnate, Fritz Thyssen, and banker Kurt von Schroeder.
The Nazis recognized that Germany's assets would fall into the hands of the rapidly approaching enemy if they were not transferred and hidden. The nation's wealth, much of it acquired through the plunder of the nations it invaded and the people the Nazis murdered, had to be transferred so they would be out of judicial reach, but accessible to fund a future movement to resurrect the party and build a new Reich. Leading Nazi officials also feared retribution from the Allies and, rather than face likely punishment for their war crimes, they decided to seek safe havens outside Germany, and beyond the reach of justice. According to the protocol from the meeting:
The party leadership is aware that, following the defeat of Germany, some of her best-known leaders may have to face trial as war criminals. Steps have therefore been taken to lodge the less prominent party leaders as "technical experts" in various German enterprises. The party is prepared to lend large sums of money to industrialists to enable every one of them to set up a secret post-war organization abroad, but as collateral it demands that the industrialists make available to it exisitng resources abroad, so that a strong German Reich may re-emerge after the defeat.....
The outcome of the meeting in Strasbourg was the genesis of an organization; one well-financed and well-organised, with the express purpose of helping fleeing Nazis escape justice. This organization was called the "Organization Der Ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen" ( "The Organization of former SS members) — better known as Odessa.
Wiesenthal learned of Odessa accidentally during conversations with a former member of German counter-espionage who he met during the Nuremberg trials.The source said the organization was set up in 1946 after many Nazis already had been imprisoned. Those in jail contacted friends and aid committees that had been established to promote the welfare of prisoners. The assistance often went beyond humanitarian aid to abetting their escape.
In short order, Odessa, built a large and reliable network geared to achieve its ends, and began operations. Routes were mapped and contacts were established. Influential Nazis vanished as they were secretly ushered out of Germany and assisted in starting new lives under false names in foreign countries. At the end of the war, only a handful of high-ranking Nazi officials stood trial. Many who were guilty of war crimes escaped with the help of Odessa.
Some war criminals remained in Germany and took on new identities, managing to get themselves smuggled out of Germany and to freedom during the chaos at the end of hostilities. An underground network called "Die Spinne" (The Spider) supplied false papers and passports, safe houses, and contacts that could smuggle war criminals across the un-patrolled Swiss borders. Once into Switzerland, they moved on quickly to Italy, using what some called "The Monastery Route." Roman Catholic priests, especially Franciscans, helped Odessa move fugitives from one monastery to the next until they reached Rome. According to Wiesenthal, one Franciscan monastery, Via Sicilia in Rome, was virtually a transit station for Nazis, an arrangement made possible by a bishop from Graz named Alois Hudal. Wiesenthal speculates that the motive for most of the priests was what he viewed as a misguided notion of Christian charity. Once in Italy, the fugitives were out of danger, and many then dispersed around the globe.
Some countries may not have known about their new immigrants' pasts, but many did and chose to look the other way. Others, including the United States, looked to exploit the knowledge of Nazis. Fascist countries, such as Spain under Franco, as well as those in South America, became safe havens. The establishment of the state of Israel after World War II led some Arab nations to welcome Nazis who shared their hatred of the Jews in the hope they would use their experise in areas such as rocketry to tilt the balance in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Adolf Eichmann was one of the most notorious of the Nazis to escape Germany thanks to ODESSA, but he was eventually captured in South America by Israeli Intelligence agents and brought back to Israel to stand trial for his crimes against the Jewish people.
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