NAZI COLLABORATORS WERE RECRUITED AS 'ASSET'

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: November 8, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By Thomas OToole.
*ft-"1nRtW) PomMtaff Writer
THE WASHINGTON POST
8 NOVEMBER 1982
At the time, the SS organization
.U.S. immigration authorities' were
told in the early years of the Cold ..
War that it was in America's interest
to ignore the backgrounds of hun-
dreds of East European. Nazi collate='
orators be,
smuggled Into this
country:
In a 1951- letter to the Immigra-
tion and 'Naturalization -Service, the
late Frank G. Wisner; identified in'i1
new'book as the State Department-
official who brought in known war
criminals, wrote:
'"`In wartime a''4iighiy ~riataonalistic '
Ukrainian political -group4ith` its '
own security service .could conceiv-
ably be a great asset. Alienating such
a group could, *C'the` other viand,.
have no particular advantage-to the
United States either nine or in. war-'
time' .
The letter and the details of, Wis
ner's role in. recruiting Nazi collab-
orators to help in the Cold War
struggle with the Soviet Union are in
"The Belarus Secret,' published by
Alfred A. Knopf and written- by'..
John Lofws, a Boston 'lawyer' who
served for 2' years as a prosecutor
in the Justice Departments Office of
Special Investigation.
In his role as prosecutor, Loftus
was assigned to* hunt down Nazis .
who lied about their past. in order to
emigrate to the United States.
' Loftus says htmdreds. of.Nazi col- ..
laboratory illegally were allowed-into
the United States : by the INS. Of-
ficials of the INS could not be
reached for. comment yesterday....::: ,.i
The book gets its title from -the.
Belarus Brigade of the Nazi SS that
was- made up of : Byelortrssians_ :from
the White Ruthenia region of the
,oviet Union that the Nazis' bccu ;
pied from 1941 in 1944.
-In the book. Loftus flays that Wis-
ner-smuggied more than 300 mem-
hers- of the Belarus Brigade into
America.__ :.
was outlawed here..,,:,
Loftus also says Wisner lied about
the backgrounds of the Nazi collab-.
urawrs:he brought in:and openly de-
tied;=,Congress and President Tru-,
The.. letter. Wisner wrotew th
e
.
INS praises the Ukrainian Nazis'f
t
o
.,their anti-communism
':He points out'-that-his secret? Of--
.flee of Policy Coordination in th
e
State. `Departments hid :them from=
the. Saviet~ Liruoii, which attempted.
-ern,-Europe where they were. hiding
-at.the"end,of World:War.IF .:: ~:
"Luckilyt the attempt to 'locate
these - anti-Soviet Ukrainians _ was
sabgtaged. by, a few farsighted Amer!-.
icans,":-Wisner's letter:.states, "who ,
warned the persons -concerned to;go, `
into hiding.?
Wisner;,..says';in 1-hia .letter -4hat
many Ukrainian Nazis were.rnnt inu
ing.to_ iight.;the Soviets after the-war.
was over.with the weapons and am-
munition .the: defeated -German.:ar-
mies had left behind.
"Over 35,000 members of the Rus-
sign secret police have been lulled by
the OUN [the Nazi-sponsored Or-,
ganization of Ukrainian Nationalists] -'
since the end of the last war " Wis-
ner wrote. "In other words; the main
activities of the OUN in the Ukraine
cannot .be considered 'detrimental to
the United Stag.' =
Loftus - says Wisner fold the INS
that the OUN had been falsely ac-
the German war .ebbs ' ivas tiifi=.:
cant, including the raising of vidwt-
teers for. several SS divisions.'
in -his book. Loftus says Wisner
"imported the leaders ol' nearly_ all
the :puppet regimes set up. by the'
,''Third Reich from -the Baltic tor- the
Black Sea.":
"Loftus deals at>lerigth with two-of'.
Wisner s ::;recruits.';: Radisfaw:. Qs -
--trowsky:,and Emanuel Jasiuk.-They
- are '.,.buried. in"e.-White --Ruthenian-
.: _cemet,ery.-in':Siiuth Rivet, Aia1.,,at-here :.
resided , after being _-smuggled {
~he-states'by Wisner- Ogtaawsk
iepresident of the Nazrpuppet
regime in Byelorussia . and: -eollabo-
rrated:so,dosely with :the.Nazis, Lof-..
~....tus says; that there were "reports.he.
'would Vie. named mayor of Mpsoow
F.: ;its capture." . ,.....:
Jasiuk worked'for thesS in'Po-
land, where he submitted., names of-,;
-Polish Jews who were to be'killed by:'
the SS
Loftus `.wntes;.that, even ;though
.Wisner was-using-halt of the' CIA's
budget in recruiting his secret Nazi
army, his organization. was .so effect
tively penetrated by Soviet spies
that many-of them lost their lives in.
the Soviet Uniiin' or were. unmasked
#; as Americat{:.agents in Soviet radio
broadcasts-
'Soviet ? intelligence - `- had penes i
Crated every-corner of the Byelorus-
::;sian : network.':.?Loftus :'writes. "The
:.;;Byelorussian . and the' Ukrainian
OUN were; all.. riddled with -Soviet.,
The Gerrnark used all means nec.
essary to, force_the cooperation Which.
..
the Ukrainians
were. unwilling to;
The ,OUN .;.fought bitterly:
.e.
,is was a?=fabricatioit,'?,
Loftus rays. "The secret internal files
of the OUN clearly show how most
of-its members. worked for the Ges-
tapo or SS as 'policemen, executiori-
ers, partisan hunters and municipal
officials. The OUN contribution to
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