AMERICA'S SHAME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100140033-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: April 1, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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BOSTON GLOBE
1 APRIL 1983
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America.'s shame
it is said that we study. the past' in order to ~ :guilty of the most heinous crimes against hu-
understand the present. This truism of the 'manlty..Barbie- was no exception; he was 'the
classroom is rye being illustrated on the front _;rule. Men who wi
page of daily ~avspapers, where coverage of P~ out whole villages in east-
.ern Europe were embraced Intel-
the Klaus Barbs. case has molted into ag rare ..ligence." (Nowhere is by American " . that the retrospective investigation of yesterday's scan!-. word more transparent than in this sordid epi
dais, yesterday's shame. `-sode.) Fascist officials who sent tens of thou-
The news that Barbie, "the butcher of L
ons." was protected and em ed b ~ y sands of Jews to the. ovens of Dachau and
in the postwar ploy y America :Auschwitz were allowed .to escape punishment
in the 1 years. has encouraged Ameri_so that. they could write "reports" for, the
cans to ook-back atour-country'sunprincipled ( Americans about the common enemy to..the.'
cooptation-~of--Mitler's --henchmen: Like;Our.`.re- ::East. .
luctance to accept Jewish refugees here during
the .Hitler years, ..our. Thanks to, the:.pervertfng power of Cold War. unto Nazi survivors. evokes. terrible qu st ons dling abouto f w at -criminals were fus~~ of unregenerate Nazi ,
sheltered from extradition
we thought we were fighting for, or against, .in . and then absorbed .into _ western Intelligence
the period from 1941 to 1945..
Apologists for the conscious., coordinated rope.cMaR or provided safe passage out of Eu-
American policy of shielding capured fascists. America: by of ecame-adviosers . and spi~ual
and using them as Cold War soldiers against. guides to congenial neo-fascist regimes on' this
Stalinist Russia will say, in their more forth- continent. To our. great shame, American poli-
right moods, that we shouldn't attempt to judge cy-makers have consistently aligned this coun-
official actions outside their historical context, try with those same regimes. -In 'Paraguay,.
The times ' were-different, they suggest, -and .no Chile, Ar entina,
Bolivia Monday morning quarterback can understand chose, again and again, be the political bed-
the all-consuming sense of urgency that blight- fellows of the Nazi refugees who had been ed the inception of the Cold War epoch. It is an postwar proteges. n our
argument which, for all its historicity, still re-
sembles the logic of the. more apologetic Ger- outrage Americans recently acts with understandable
mans who carried out Hitler's policies: Nazi of- recently when bystanders in a New, ficials also believed their anti-Bolshevik crn_ Bcrime of rape. We are now edford bar acted as callous spectators to the
sade entitled them to fight their enemies by any. can officials acted as accessories after that necessary. And their other great enemy, , in -aiding Nazis who took in ghter
he fact
.besides the bolsheviks, happened to be the Jew- of millions of innocent }art No the sloutrage
ish people. people. No moral outrage
Nov", come revelations from .the archives of do is to nsist on knowing the fu l truth about
the State Department showing.that America the past, so that we can say to our present lead-
systematically protected Nazis known . to be ers: Never again!
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