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Blowback

America’s Recruit­ment of Nazis and its Effects on the Cold War
by Christo­pher Simp­son
1988, Wei­den­feld & Nicol­son
ISBN 1555841066
Illus­trated, 398 pages.

The CIA, the State Depart­ment, and U.S. Army intel­li­gence each cre­ated spe­cial pro­grams for the spe­cific pur­pose of bring­ing selected for­mer Nazis and col­lab­o­ra­tors to the United States. . . . The gov­ern­ment employed these men and women for their exper­tise in pro­pa­ganda and psy­cho­log­i­cal war­fare, for work in Amer­i­can lab­o­ra­to­ries, and even as spe­cial guer­rilla troops for deploy­ment inside the USSR in the midst of a nuclear war. . . . Hun­dreds, and per­haps thou­sands, of such recruits were SS vet­er­ans; some had been offi­cers of the bloody Sicher­heits­di­enst (SD), the Nazi party’s secu­rity ser­vice. [From Blow­back]


[NB: Not to be con­fused with
Blow­back: The Costs and Con­se­quences of Amer­i­can Empire
by Chalmers John­son.]

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