NAZI WHITEWASH IN 1940'S CHARGED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100550011-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2012
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 11, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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of the specialists were "ardent Nazis" tivity Correlation. Now retired in
implicated in atrocities and doctored Washington, official confirmed in that he was the How many Nazis got into the United their dossiers to hide this. athe s having "hit the ceiling" after find-
States because of dossier changes is not ing discrepencies in the records of
clear. Not all of the dossiers were de- Paperclip scientists.
classified. Among those listed in the documents
It is also unclear if the State Depart. as working for the Army Air Force in
ment was able to prevent any of the Heidelberg to 1 Fielrecommended
- O as
Nazis from entering. Dossiers were for transfer
Berman Becker-Freysing, former
changed to get around anticipated Dr.
State Department objections. director of aeromedical research for
Some Accused of War Crimes the German Air Force. Shortly after-
ward he was convicted at Nuremberg
The documents also show that among and sentenced to 20 years in prison for
those hired for American research a role in experiments on Dachau pris-
wereseveral specialists who were later oners who died after drinking sea
charged with war Crimes at Nurem- ; water to test its potability.
ing magazine article, reveal that
American authorities knew that many
der and aga t the objections o the
State Department. according to declas-
sified errrmen cu .
The documents, disclosed in a com-
NEW YORK TIMES
11 March, 1985
Declassified Documents Quoted
The article, by Linda Hunt, a re-
porter and documentary producer,
quotes from hundreds of declassified
documents obtained through the Free-
dom of Information Act. Some key
documents were made available to The
New York Times and verified inde-
pendently.
Although a number of the officials
race died or t 17e 1o-
cated some of the events described
were corroborated by a former State
rtment Intelligence official. cited
ants.
"We got into several rounds because
it looked like they were trying to
dump" the Germans into the United
them into the United States after Ward _
War II contrary to a Presidential or.
WHITEWASH III
IN 1940'S CHARGED
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
Spedel is The New York Times
American intelligence officials
ceai a az reco of hundreds of
orm r enem sc ens to o e
States, recalled Herbert J. Cummings,
a former assistant chief of the State
Department's Bureau of Foreign Ac-
Subsequent documents show that
thereafter, when the Office of the Mili-
tary vernor in rman rovred
unfavorable ty reports on pro-
se Navy officials m -The
p rogram not to send the dossiers on to
the State or Justice Departments.
Rather, said emoran-
dum of Nov. 28, 1947, "this agency in-
tends to ask the Headquarters, Euro-
pean Command, to re-evaluate these
reports with the comment that subjects
of these reports were not considered to
be potential security threats to the
United States and it is, therefore, be-
lieved that their classification as ar-
dent Nazis should be revised."
'Beating a Dead Nazi Horse'
senten to years p
ca
medical experiments on prisoners at. Also listed as Paperclip recruits
Dachau. At least one of these got into were three defendants acquitted at Nu-
the United States. remberg. Washington arranged for a
Also among those whose files were fourth Paperclip scientist, Walter
upgraded, the records show, was Wern. Schreiber, to be flown from the United
her von Braun, a major in the Nazi SS States to Argentina in 1952 after disclo-
who developed the V-2 rocket in war- sure of. documents linking him to the
time Germany and later headed the Nazi euthanasia program.
American space program. Dr. von Arthur Rudolph, a German-born top
Braun, who died in 1977, was initially manager for NASA, moved back to
labeled "a potential security threat" West Germany and surrendered his
but the assessment was revised on the American citizenship last year rather
request of American military officials. than contest charges that he had
Between 1945 and 1955 some 800 for- worked slave laborers to death at a
mer enem rocket experts Nazi rocket factory. His file too was re-
spe sts were brought into the coon- vised, records show. -
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D ad reached "a complete
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d ZO th rison for
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dent
to active Nazi Party members or sup- j ec ves _ envy, p ? os-
uet N. Wev of But a . Captain Wev,
~ ocuments disclosed in an article now t to dead, comp ed
in e p issue o the e o the that o tate Department was -beat-
c ten is show t officials of a dead Nazi horse" b demanding
the Joint intelligence ec yes a ti security checks of Paperclip
Agency Joint Cluels o 'CAT! . Can a
Pro
I had a practice of requesting changes in
negatdossiers Specula Tsfsthey
wanted to recruit. The Bulletin a non-
pro it monthly magazine published by
the Educational Foundation of Nuclear
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