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In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis

By Eric Lichtblau
Oct. 26, 2014
In the decades after World War II, the C.I.A. and 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’s ties to some still living in America.

nytimes.com/2014/10/27/us/…
📌”At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, law enforcement and intelligence leaders like J. Edgar Hoover at the F.B.I. and Allen Dulles at the C.I.A. aggressively recruited onetime Nazis of all ranks as secret, anti-Soviet “assets.””

nytimes.com/2014/10/27/us/…
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