U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis

by Richard Breitman , Norman J. W. Goda , Timothy Naftali , Robert Wolfe

• ISBN13: 9780521617949
• ISBN10: 0521617944
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-04
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book is a direct result of the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. Drawing upon many documents declassified under this law, the authors demonstrate what US intelligence agencies learned about Nazi crimes during World War II and about the nature of Nazi intelligence agencies' role in the Holocaust. It examines how some U.S. corporations found ways to profit from Nazi Germany's expropriation of the property of German Jews. This book also reveals startling new details on the Cold War connections between the US government and Hitler's former officers. At a time when intelligence successes and failures are at the center of public discussion, U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis also provides an unprecedented inside look at how intelligence agencies function during war and peacetime.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	3	(8)
Section One: Espionage and Genocide
OSS Knowledge of the Holocaust	11	(34)
Richard Breitman
Norman J. W. Goda
Other Responses to the Holocaust	45	(28)
Richard Breitman
Case Studies of Genocide	73	(20)
Richard Breitman
Robert Wolfe
Nazi Espionage: The Abwehr and SD Foreign Intelligence	93	(28)
Richard Breitman
Follow the Money	121	(16)
Richard Breitman
The Gestapo	137	(36)
Richard Breitman
Norman J. W. Goda
Paul Brown
Section Two: Collaboration and Collaborators
Banking on Hitler: Chase National Bank and the Ruckwanderer Mark Scheme, 1936-1941	173	(30)
Norman J.W. Goda
The Ustasa: Murder and Espionage	203	(24)
Norman J.W. Goda
Nazi Collaborators in the United States: What the FBI Knew	227	(38)
Norman J.W. Goda
Section Three: Postwar Intelligence Use of War Criminals
The Nazi Peddler: Wilhelm Hottl and Allied Intelligence	265	(28)
Norman J.W. Goda
Tracking the Red Orchestra: Allied Intelligence, Soviet Spies, Nazi Criminals	293	(24)
Norman J.W. Goda
Coddling a Nazi Turncoat	317	(20)
Robert Wolfe
The CIA and Eichmann's Associates	337	(38)
Timothy Naftali
Reinhard Gehlen and the United States	375	(44)
Timothy Naftali
Manhunts: The Official Search for Notorious Nazis	419	(24)
Norman J.W. Goda
Conclusion	443	(18)
Norman J.W. Goda
Richard Breitman
Appendix: Western Communications Intelligence Systems and the Holocaust	461	(11)
Robert J. Hanyok
Terms and Acronyms	472	(2)
Selected Bibliography	474	(5)
Record Groups Cited	479	(1)
Contributors	480	(1)
Index	481