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Special Investigations to identify and bring Nazi war criminals and collaborators to justice for concealment of criminal activity during 1933-45. Prior to the establishment of OSI, CIA worked with the Special Litigation Unit (SLU) of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for a brief period in the 1970s. In addition, Congress ordered the General Accounting Office (GAO) to conduct two separate investigations, during 1977-78 and again during 1982-85, to determine the relationship between the US Government and Nazi war criminals. The House of Representatives held public hearings to discuss GAO's findings after both investigations.[1] (U)
According to the General Accounting Office, the Central Intelligence Agency did not have a formal or even an informal program to bring Nazi war criminals or collaborators into the United States.[2] The Agency did bring defectors from Iron Curtain countries and provided "disposal" services for American agents from Europe. In some cases, these defectors or agents also had Nazi pasts, but this did not constitute a basis for US support or assistance. In its 1985 report, Nazis and Axis Collaborators Were Used to
- ↑ US Congress, House, Committee on the Judiciary, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and International Law on Alleged Nazi War Criminals, 95th Cong., 1st and 2nd sess., 3 August 1977 and 19-21 July 1978. See also Committee on the Judiciary, Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and International Law on GAO Report on Nazi War Criminals in the United States, 99th Cong., 1st sess., 17 October 1985. (U)
- ↑ United States General Accounting Office, Comptroller General of the United States, Widespread Conspiracy to Obstruct Probes of Alleged Nazi War Criminals Not Supported by Available Evidence-Controversy May Continue, GGD-78-73 (Washington, DC: General Accounting Office, 1978) and Nazis and Axis Collaborators Were Used to Further US Anticommunist Objectives in Europe-Some Immigrated to the United States, GAO/GGD-85-66 (Washington, DC: General Accounting Office, 1985) (hereafter cited as 1978 GAO Report or 1985 GAO Report). (U)
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