{"id":715,"date":"2014-10-27T20:31:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=715"},"modified":"2014-10-27T20:31:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:31:13","slug":"in-cold-war-u-s-spy-agencies-used-1000-nazis-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/27\/us\/in-cold-war-us-spy-agencies-used-1000-nazis.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;version=HpSumSmallMediaHigh&amp;module=second-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=4\">In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"305\" data-total-count=\"305\">WASHINGTON \u2014 In the decades after\u00a0<a class=\"meta-classifier\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #326891;\" title=\"More articles about Wold War II.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/w\/world_war_ii_\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">World War II<\/a>, the\u00a0<a class=\"meta-org\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #326891;\" title=\"More articles about the Central Intelligence Agency.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/c\/central_intelligence_agency\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">C.I.A.<\/a>\u00a0and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government\u2019s ties to some still living in America, newly disclosed records and interviews show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"427\" data-total-count=\"732\">At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, law enforcement and intelligence leaders like\u00a0<a class=\"meta-per\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #326891;\" title=\"More articles about J. Edgar Hoover.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/h\/j_edgar_hoover\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">J. Edgar Hoover<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0<a class=\"meta-org\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #326891;\" title=\"More articles about the Federal Bureau of Investigation.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/f\/federal_bureau_of_investigation\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">F.B.I.<\/a>\u00a0and Allen Dulles at the C.I.A. aggressively recruited onetime Nazis of all ranks as secret, anti-Soviet \u201cassets,\u201d declassified records show. They believed the ex-Nazis\u2019 intelligence value against the Russians outweighed what one official called \u201cmoral lapses\u201d in their service to the Third Reich.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"148\" data-total-count=\"880\">The agency hired one former SS officer as a spy in the 1950s, for instance, even after concluding he was probably guilty of \u201cminor war crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"148\" data-total-count=\"880\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis &#8211; NYTimes.com. WASHINGTON \u2014 In the decades after\u00a0World War II, the\u00a0C.I.A.\u00a0and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the government\u2019s ties to some still living in America, newly disclosed records [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[135,556,557,834,892,898],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cia","tag-nazi","tag-nazis","tag-us","tag-world-war-two","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}