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The FBI: Silent Terror of the Fourth Reich
Whitehead, John W.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/02/09/the-fbi-silent-terror-of-the-fourth-reich/Date Written: 2017-02-09 Publisher: CounterPunch Year Published: 2017 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX20373 Lately, there's been a lot of rhetoric comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. The concern is that a Nazi-type regime may be rising in America. That process, however, began a long time ago. Abstract: - Excerpt: As historian Robert Gellately recounts, the Nazi police state was initially so admired for its efficiency and order by the world powers of the day that J. Edgar Hoover, then-head of the FBI, actually sent one of his right-hand men, Edmund Patrick Coffey, to Berlin in January 1938 at the invitation of Germany's secret police -- the Gestapo. The FBI was so impressed with the Nazi regime that, according to the New York Times, in the decades after World War II, the FBI, along with other government agencies, aggressively recruited at least a thousand Nazis, including some of Hitler's highest henchmen. All told, thousands of Nazi collaborators -- including the head of a Nazi concentration camp, among others -- were given secret visas and brought to America by way of Project Paperclip. Subsequently, they were hired on as spies and informants, and then camouflaged to ensure that their true identities and ties to Hitler's holocaust machine would remain unknown. All the while, thousands of Jewish refugees were refused entry visas to the U.S. on the grounds that it could threaten national security. Subject Headings |