Unfortunatly, such agreements are common the Intelligence Comunity.
Posted on 03/16/2010 8:16:08 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus
Fifty years after Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann's arrest by the Israeli Mossad in Argentina, basic details about his 15 years as a fugitive remain a government secret. The files kept by Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the BND, remain classified today -- allegedly for reasons of national security. A German journalist is now suing in a federal court for the release of the files.
Fifty years have passed since Adolf Eichmann's arrest, but the German foreign intelligence agency, the BND, is still hoping to prevent the release of files detailing his post-war movements. A Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig is currently examining almost 4,500 pages of secret documents on Eichmann, a leading architect of Hitler's plans to murder Europe's Jews. The court is soon expected to rule whether the BND's justifications for concealing the files are still applicable and in line with the country's freedom of information laws.
The court is using closed "in camera" proceedings in which the three judges considering the case are the only people with access to the files.
"What's especially interesting is the sheer amount of paperwork that the government is concealing," says lawyer Remo Clinger, whose law firm Geulen & Klinger is representing German journalist Gabriele Weber in her case before the Leipzig court.
According to paperwork filed with the court, the BND maintains that secrecy is necessary because much of the information contained in the files was provided by an unnamed "foreign intelligence service." If the information were released, the BND argues, it would deter other nations from sharing intelligence with Germany in the future. "It would adversely affect future cooperations between foreign intelligence services and German security agencies," the agency's lawyers argue. The fact that the files are classified has prompted considerable speculation over the origins of the intelligence.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Let's get the files on the web, now!
ping
Unfortunatly, such agreements are common the Intelligence Comunity.
ping
probably because they do not want the world to see who helped the nazis escape at the end of the war. Not that it would shock anyone today.
/mark
Is Eichmann still alive?
Whatever do these people who say their was never a holocaust think this was all about?
and we never went to the moon...
...and Hillary Clinton is the most brilliant woman in the world...
Nope. Eichmann was convicted by an Israeli court and hung in Israel in 1962.
OMG. Time flies. Fifty years!!!
I have followed this case since I was a little girl.
I want to see the files in detail!
Adolf Eichmann’s son Ricardo Eichmann, an archaeologist in Berlin who has repeatedly expressed his disgust for his father, advocates releasing all the documents. “Whatever it says in those files,” he told SPIEGEL ONLINE, “the time has come to open them up for academic evaluation.”
“Nope. Eichmann was convicted by an Israeli court and hung in Israel in 1962.”
I don’t know much about it, but I know this much: it was too good for him.
Was he working for the CIA???? Enquiring minds want to know...
|
|
|||
Gods |
Thanks Perdogg.the German foreign intelligence agency, the BND, is still hoping to prevent the release of files detailing his post-war movements. A Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig is currently examining almost 4,500 pages of secret documents on Eichmann, a leading architect of Hitler's plans to murder Europe's JewsHe went back home once or more than once I think, to visit family."I will leap laughing to my grave, because the feeling that I have five million people on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction." -- Adolf EichmannJust adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. |
||
|
· Discover · Nat Geographic · Texas AM Anthro News · Yahoo Anthro & Archaeo · Google · · The Archaeology Channel · Excerpt, or Link only? · cgk's list of ping lists · |
|||
I want to see the Rudolf Hess files. There has to be a hell of a good reason to have kept him in solitary all those years until his death.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.