Posted on 06/17/2006 3:36:05 PM PDT by Graybeard58
The CIA knew of Eichmann's location and alias two years before Israel caught him.
He was just doing his job, he testified, and had nothing personally against Jews. He personified what Hannah Arendt called "The Banality of Evil." He turned massacre into a bureaucratic act - the Holocaust administrator.
I have delayed giving his name, Adolf Eichmann, because I wonder how many still remember it a half century later. Mr. Eichmann escaped from Germany at the end of the war and was living in Buenos Aires when Israeli commandos captured him in May 1960 and flew him to Israel. For him, Israel suspended its ban on capital punishment as he went to trial in April 1961.
His name comes up again because newly released documents reveal that the CIA learned in 1958 of Eichmann's whereabouts in Argentina and his alias, but didn't tell anybody or do anything about it. It was a time when the cold war was dictating policy, and the CIA was using the services of a lot of Nazis, or shall we say ex-Nazis.
I was reporting from West Germany at the time of Eichmann's trial, and I remember how nervous the German government was about the trial in Jerusalem. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who had presided over an agreement to provide Israel with $800 million in reparations, talked to me about the Eichmann case as he was preparing to leave for Washington for his first meeting with President John F. Kennedy.
He feared that the Eichmann trial would negate his efforts to befriend the Jews and result in a resurgence of anti-German feeling in the United States. I asked Mr. Adenour whether he had thought of asking to have Eichmann brought to Germany for trial. He shook his head. "We have no special feeling about this murderer," he said.
When the chancellor returned from Washington, he said he was enormously relieved that American reaction to the trial had been less vehement than he had feared.
But I wonder how they feel in the CIA now, knowing that this mass murderer had been protected by American intelligence for two years. And that, were it not for Israeli intelligence, he might have lived out his life in peace.
This makes me wonder if the CIA has been harboring or has known the whereabouts of Mengle all these years.
This article reads like so many stories told by fading, doddering elders to bored but patient grandchildren: pointless, rambling, eventually (mercfully) ending with, "And it really did happen."
I wonder if this stupid old liberal fart has ever expressed anger about protecting communists. Somehow, I doubt it. Liberal outrage about Nazis rings hollow when most of them didn't give a rat's behind about the victims of communism. I tune it out.
Google it.
You'll find Mengele's whereabouts were suspected for quite a while. He died in Brazil, I believe. They're sure it was he.
Josef Mengele died 7 February 1979.
... I have delayed giving his name, Adolf Eichmann, because I wonder how many still remember it a half century later.
Huh? You gave his name in the first sentence, unless you thought we would confuse him with Moe Eichmann.
It really did happen.
And what is your agenda?
Which mass murdering Communists did the CIA protect?
Why do those that have no interest in the fate of Nazi mass murderers frequently sully the great word "Patriot"?
LOLOL. By the way, did anyone figure out what the lessons learned were?
Huh? You gave his name in the first sentence, unless you thought we would confuse him with Moe Eichmann.
Has this ever been actually confirmed or is just a rumor?
...did anyone figure out what the lessons learned were?
I really never understood how the CIA missed out on that.
Also, I love the way that the meida never mentions the names of the patrons of the Nazi's in Argentina: The Peron's. The Peron's were facists of the worst sort, but for someo reason liberals like Evita.
Mayor Coleman Young was watched 40 years by the FBI due to his contact with Communist agents. At the same time his brother was a top level manager at the Detroit post office.
Which, I am sure, clarifies the whole matter (... uhhh, the one about the watchers watching watchers watching watchers).
Oh, Christ (so to speak). You again.
I never said the CIA protected mass-murdering communists, though it wouldn't surprise me. I never said I don't find the protection of Eichmann, if the story's true, outrageous. I do find it outrageous.
To suggest that I have "no interest in the fate of Nazi mass murderers" is utterly baseless. It is a product of your fevered, paranoid mind.
I'm just pointing out how liberals' outrage over totalitarianism, and over weak responses to same, is about 99.5 percent directed at Nazism, when in fact the communists killed even more than the Nazis. I would say "far more," but you would put a paranoid spin on it.
Not that I care what you think, but it might confuse some folks who don't read carefully.
Israel kept Buckley's whereabouts from HRT after his kidnapping. A lot of things happened during the Cold War in the name of politics that we wish hadnt. Im sure there are a lot of other things too. What Im not sure of is the point of this article..
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