Cold War anecdotes: The CIA hired a large number of Nazi agents to fight against the Soviet Union

Foreign media said that declassified U.S. documents showed that after the end of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) hired a large number of former German Nazi Party members to serve as spies and informants to combat the Soviet threat.

According to a report on the BBC website on October 28, scholars who studied these files pointed out that the United States employed at least 1,000 former Nazi Party members to work in Europe during the Cold War, and some of them also served as high-level Nazi Party members. .

Earlier, an Associated Press investigative report revealed that Washington paid tens of millions of dollars to dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals who were deported from the United States, including Jewish concentration camp guards. Millions in Social Security payments.

The report pointed out that Washington used legal loopholes to pay these payments, and some people are still experiencing these benefits to this day.

"Meddling in the judiciary"

According to reports, the CIA recruited former Nazi party members to serve as spies. It took place against the backdrop of paranoia and panic during the Cold War, but declassified documents show that John Edgar Hoover, the first director of the CIA who served for 37 years, not only approved the hiring of Nazis, but even described the description of Nazi atrocities as It was Soviet ideological propaganda.

Among those hired was Borschwein, a senior adviser to the SS (SS) who was said to have written a dossier on policies to intimidate Jews. The CIA is believed to have helped his family move to New York in the 1950s as a reward for his loyal service.

In addition, Alexandras Lireikis, the former head of the Vilnius branch of the Lithuanian Security Police who was involved in the massacre of tens of thousands of Jews in Lithuania, was also hired by the CIA as a spy in East Germany. He was later assigned to settle in Boston.

Some evidence shows that the CIA tried to prevent relevant parties from launching a war crimes investigation into Lee Leikis.

The Associated Press published an investigative report a week ago that was not related to this latest discovery. However, the report pointed out that among the 66 suspected Nazi war criminals deported by the United States that year, at least 38 continued to receive U.S. tax payments. People pay welfare benefits.

U.S. Department of Justice spokesman Karl said in a statement that in 1979, the U.S. Congress issued an order to deport Nazi criminals in the country "as quickly as possible" to countries that can prosecute them for war crimes.

It was announced that under current U.S. law, any person who is ordered deported by a U.S. court will have all retirement security terminated.

"However, if an individual renounces their U.S. citizenship and voluntarily leaves the United States, they may be able to continue receiving Social Security benefits."