Posted on 04/10/2024 6:02:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Are there any uncompromised agencies left?
Wrong!
J. Edgar Hoover was a dedicated anti-marxist, who was warning about infiltration, and he was right.
The CIC, which was the forerunner of the CIA was complicit in using known Nazi war criminals for counter-intelligence in the aftermath of WWII. The CIA specifically procured Klaus Barbie, "The Butcher of Lyon," as a government asset. They helped him, and his family escape Europe via a ratline through Genoa, Italy. From there, the Barbies traveled to Argentina and then Bolivia for a new life. Barbie was involved in a string of CIA-sponsored military coups in Bolivia. He was well-known for torturing and murdering French Jews, and resistance fighters. Victims were bitten by dogs and often had their arms and legs broken. They were whipped, beaten, injected with needles. His most vile act was having 44 Jewish schoolchildren rounded up and sent to Auschwitz. All of these children would go on to perish in Nazi gas chambers. The CIC deliberately lied to French officials about knowing his whereabouts. They hid him, and protected him.
There were claims he helped the government track down Che Guevara, but nothing solid. It is also stated that he had a role in the success of Pablo Escobar’s Medellin cartel, likely supplying them with weapons.
His biggest ally was billionaire drug trafficker Roberto Suarez Gomez. Barbie helped Gomez to install General Luis Garcia Meza Tejada as the puppet leader of Bolivia in 1980.
If it hadn't been for German journalist Beate Auguste Klarsfeld, and her husband Serge taking on the role of Nazi hunters, Barbie would have never been caught and extradited. As it is, by the time he was returned to France to stand trial, the death penalty had been eliminated, so the "Butcher of Lyon," remained in prison until his death in 1991.
Of course, one thing we'll never be privy to, is what info did any of these Nazi war criminals ever provide, that was actually beneficial to this country in the Cold War? Shhh. It's top-secret.
They were zeros, never heroes.
J Edgar was an odd bird... but he was very anti-communist. He didn’t hold CIA in high regard, and if an FBI man knocked on your door, it was 2 clean cut, fit professionals in sport jackets.
Not these slovenly mutts today that look a step above the homeless casual Friday attire.
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