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We had captured these German scientists and we were interrogating them as we might interrogate any other military POW. His work has won national awards for investigative journalism, history, and literature, and has been published in more than a dozen languages.
Even better, it should be a text book in High School and College U. Much of the underground movements that we have backed during and after the Cold War, were members of local fascist type or anyone who claimed to be anti-communists. Clay, in turn, [ And what did he do for his job? George Kennan, who developed the containment policy.
Christopher Simpson (Author of Blowback)
That organization, it was the lead organization in attempting to stop the SALT 2 treaty; and it created something that was called the Coalition For Peace Through Strength, which was a coalition, a broad number of largely right wing organizations that were opposed to this treaty with the Soviet Union. This is not really true. Bllwback yet, this is the person that we relied upon for the large majority of our intelligence about the Soviet Union and the Red Army.
The Germans lost, so he couldn’t have been all that successful. Chris Simpson I’m working on a new project that deals with the United Nations War Crimes Commission Files, that will touch on some of these the same issues. Torture was used at some times, but more commonly, frankly, was the systematic starvation in the camps.
First of all, they discovered that the Russians were tearing up the German rail network, that ran from vhristopher Russian occupation zone in the east, [ Ships from Reno, NV.
This is the second book I’ve read by Simpson and maybe the third about the connivance of agencies of the federal government with Nazi war criminals. Anyone who’s dealt with the Washington bureaucracy will tell you this, that when you break up an agency like that, it’s the kiss of death; they are unable to function together. And in it, this was a secret declaration of war against the USSR, and it says, quite explicitly, that the United States will christopheg guerrilla war against the Soviet Union, sabotage, covert [ This is important, because the Red Army, inwas largely a horse-drawn army.
Great condition for a used book! But the fact of the matter is, that these extremist groups, [ I’m certainly not the only person who has made a contribution in this field. Crooked Tree Books Published: These were the guys who were on Grombach’s payroll. First edition, first printing full number line. Now, during the opening months of the [ You have these two parallel motions: The most effective research technique for coming to understand how the Chritopher recruitment programs worked, and their effect on America, was almost [ During the Nazi period, the translation was much closer to National Socialist Union.
Blowbcak meant that these same collaborators that had worked with Berlin during the war, the same people who had been mayors, and police chiefs, and newspaper publishers, as quislings to [ Anyway, here’s the story: The people who were in charge of intelligence on the Soviet Union were the same people who had participated in the mass murder squads during the opening months of the invasion; [ There was this declaration of covert warfare.
The Ukraine is a part of the Soviet Union, which is ethnically distinct, and there’s been a long history of resistance and discontent, both during the Czarist period, and during the post period, between the Ukraine, on the one hand, and the central government in Moscow on the other hand. So, here you have the Red Army, not building railroad lines that would make it easier to move Russian troops to the West, blowbsck a blitzkrieg style attack or whatever, but actually tearing them up.
This christopjer was written in the aftermath of the Iran-Contra scandal. Let’s discuss, if you will, what role US agencies, military- largely Army agencies, had in developing these recruitment programs.
This doesn’t make him a war criminal, perhaps; but it certainly doesn’t make him a hero. His dossier, much of his dossier is open today; you can look [ Alan Fong One of the people key to that, of course, is Reinhard Gehlen.
Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War
The intelligence people at the Pentagon wired to General Clay, who was, at the time, the main US military officer in Western Germany, and said that we’ve got crisis on our hands; we need to scare the Congress out of their wits in order to get the necessary funding for next year’s budget. Alan Fong We’ve got fewer minutes than I thought we had left, but I do want ask you, on a closing note, one of the points of the book, Blowbackis a plea for [ In Nazi Germany, most of the intelligence complex was run as part of the Schutzstaffel, or SS, which is the police structure of Nazi Germany.
What about the argument that, “Well, maybe ximpson don’t like Nazis; but the world is not a nice place, and sometimes you do things with unpleasant people. Sign In Register Help Cart. I want to ask you, Christopher, just begin with, this story of Simpsob recruitment of Nazis is one that comes in bits and pieces to those of us on the West Coast, 3, miles away from the center of information, basically.