AUTHOR CUTS ESTIMATE OF NAZIS BROUGHT TO US; OTHERS SAY THERE'S NO WAY TO TELL

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 68
• Publication Date: May 20, 1982
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ON PAGE 3 O ~ THE BOSTON GLOBE
20 May 1982
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In a revision of an estimate reported had done before -and 400,000 people as an invited expert K?itness on July 19;
. in Wednesday's editions of The Globe; came in as displaced persons .between 1978, at a congressional committee.
Holocaust scholar Jack Nusan Porter of . 1948 and 1952." most of the individuals who came to
.Brighton said yesterday he believes a ; .. .Researcher. Allen said ~ estimatin this country under "Project Papercli "
possible 1000 Nazi collaborators en- ...numbers of alleged .Nazi collaborators. ~ had been minimal members of the Nail
tered the United States on their own ., and war criminals !s difficult, notin ~~'? though "some of them, but by no'
after World War II. Other researchers that Vienna-based Nazi-hunter Simon means all, were found to have partici-
said the validity of any estimate is im- . ~ pated in the processes of the Ho]o- .
possible to prove. Wie..enthal believes 3000 Nazi war ; coast; .
In Wednesday's editions of The ; gtatesn al figure glen sayst se' grisly ''There were 1558 of them." said A1=
Globe, Porter estimated the fi re was len, ~ ?'but the were- not all Nazi war
~. ~ :exaggerated. There is no solid factual criminals, nor were they all rnllabora-
Porter, _ a sociology teacher , at He-.,.. ~~ ~~' Even outfits Iike.;60 Min- tors, though a significant number;.
brew CoIIege in Brookline and the au-~ `. ~ utes had many things wrong, . he said, were ~..
tho~of a two-volume work on the Jew- , referring to the CBS-TV program, ~ _ : `" ` ~, ~ ~ '" ` ~" .
ish resistance, said his estimate of 3000 ~ which reported,Sunday that 300 Byelo- Allen said about 10 of these people
,was based partially on lumping togeth= russian collaborators had been smug- ~ -have been proved to be Nazi war crlmi-
~er the estimated 1000 Nazi collabora-. ~~ into this country by US intelli- Holy. The line between a war crlminal?
gence.agencies. - and a Nazi collaborator, Allen said, is ,
tors with 1558 known German and. '` - ~ often blurred ~ because' there were var {
Austrian scientists brought to this That officially spor_sored brain- ions degrees of collaboration:. 1
country after the war by the US govern- -drain, Allen explained yesterday, began - I
ment under "Project Paperclip." ~ . .: in 1944 (when it was called "Project His o~vn research shows, Allen add-
Porter said yesterday that his re- Overcast") with the stated ~purpuse ~. "that I can prove that at a mini-
vised estimate of 1000 is based on re- from the Joint Chiefs Intelligence Board mum 286 Nazi war criminals entered ~~
'search done by Charles R. Allen, author to "seek out, seize and secure and then the US after the Second World War," of
of several books and booklets on Nazi exploit" German and Austrian scion- whom'he says "I could name each cite;
..war criminals, including "Nazi War ,fists, technologists, technicians and in- when he was born, when he died, any I
Criminals Among Us" in 1963. ~ ~ telligence resources for use by US gov- Personal data.". ~,-
'AIlen said yesterday in a telephone ernment and related private agencies, - Of these, 149 had been utilized as re~
interview that "it may be reasonable to including rnrporations.
2ssume as many as 1000 collaborators .., Gently as the 1960s by more than 12
. may.have come in from all parts of Eu- "In 1979.`' said Allen, ~"under the government agencies, including the ;
rope ... but this is just a guesstimate Freedom of Information Act, I learned FBI, the CIA. the Defense intelligence ~
,and no one should go around shouting from the FBI that there were 1558 Ger- Agency, the. US Air Force. Radio Free
,that 1000 came in.' man and Austrian scientists who came Europe and Radio Liberty, Allen _ re-
And .Allan Ryan, director of the Of- in under 'Project Paperclip.' But this celled testifying. ' . ~ ;
fice~ of Special Investigations. at the US. , _ .does not mean we imported 1558 Nazi About 30 percent of these 286 war
;Justice Department added: "I don't ~ war criminals -it's just not so." criminals. Allen added, are now dead.
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