AMERICA LONG A HAVEN FOR NAZI FOES OF SOVIET '40S WAR CRIMINALS WERE SMUGGLED IN; HILL PROBERS DEMAND AGENCIES' FILES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100140060-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: July 9, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHINGTON POST
9 July 1982
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? ? ' By Thomas O'Toole Many of these anti-Soviets were smuggled The sources say the General Accounting
i washtngton PostStaff R'rlter SntO the United States in the late .'40s and Office has identified more than 100 men it
' ~' When an OSS officer, the late Frank G. early '50s by Wisner, according to sources believes were smuggled into the united
Wisner Jr., took over as outpost chief in Bu- involved in a reopened congressional inves- States. Only six, were German; the rest were
cliarest in September, 1944, he realized that tigation. Just how many came here may Latvian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Romanian,
the political enemy of tfie United States never be known, but as many as 5,000 might Hungarian and Bulgazian. Sources said, one
t~vould soon be the Soviet Union, not Nazi . havE been brought in illegally to serve in the was a former senior official of the German
Germany. mounting propaganda war against So~~iet Foreign Ministry brought here on orders of
' One of the first things Wisner did before communism, according to the sources. CIA director Allen Dulles. The German, an .
'the occupying Red Army ordered him to These illegal emigres were put to work in expert on the Soviet Union, was accused of
? leave Romania in 1945 was to identify Ro- Radio Free Europe and Radio. Liberty, both waz crimes after leaving the United States in
n?anians whose political beliefs put them in then financed by the CIA. They also went to 1953.
= opposition to the Soviet Union. work in the Voice of America, the CIA's lan- A Nazi weapons expert was smuggled. here
'Among those on VVisner's list were R,o- guage school in Williamsburg and the De= by the Air Force under the guise of Opera-
. manians who had collaborated with the Na- fense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif., tion Paperclip, which ""