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  Blackstock, Paul, 135–36

  Blome, Dr. Kurt, xiii Bloodstone, Operation, 99–105, 107–12, 115, 115n., 125, 134, 168, 199, 202, 238, 239, 288

  criteria for recruits, 111

  examples of persons benefiting from, 112–24

  Pash and, 152, 153–55

  Blowback, 59, 64, 155, 157, 174, 175

  categories of, 277–87

  defined, 5

  Ustachi criminals and, 197–98

  Blumenthal, Sidney, 276

  BMW works, 31

  Board for International Broadcasting, 129

  Bogolepov, Igor, 241, 242, 243

  Bohlen, Charles, 85, 86, 104, 105, 116, 236, 242

  McCarthyism and, 238, 240–42

  Bokor, John, 41–43, 45

  son of, 45

  Boldyreff, Constantine, 222–25, 232, 243, 269

  Bolivia, 192

  Bongartz, Heinz, 19n., 230

  Bonifacic, Ante, 197

  Boston Herald, 223

  Boyd, John P., 108

  Braden, Tom, 288

  Bramel, Gene, 70

  Britain, 25–26, 38, 73, 75, 149, 173, 180n.–81n., 204

  Greece and, 80, 81

  intelligence services, 70, 119, 120, 146, 151, 170, 225n.

  Philby in, 124, 174, 262

  Brucher, Herb, 70–71

  Brunner, Alois, 248–49, 251, 252, 262, 282

  Buchanan, Patrick, 287

  Bucharest, Romania, 254–55, 256, 259, 286

  Buchko, Archbishop Ivan, 180–81

  Buckley, William F., Jr., 270

  Budenz, Louis, 122

  Buensch, Hans, 251

  Bulgarian National Committee, 229, 273

  Bulgarian National Front, 273

  Bund Deutscher Junger (BDJ), 146–48, 210–11

  Bundy, William, 237–38

  Burnham, James, 127, 267–68, 288

  Busbee, C. M., 144

  Camp Kilmer, 212, 214

  Camp King, 41, 42, 67, 71–72, 87, 119

  Canada, 204

  Canaris, Wilhelm, 161

  Capehart, Homer, 241

  Captive Nations Committee, 273, 274–75, 287

  “Captive Nations” movement, 227, 267–77

  Carey, James B., 126

  Carey, Peter, 258

  Carnegie Corporation, 117

  Carnegie Hall, 229

  Carroll, Wallace, 20, 156–57, 158–59

  Casey, William, 43n.

  Castro, Fidel, 150n., 174, 243

  Catholic Church, 59, 207

  Christian Democratic parties, 74, 92, 115, 177, 178n.

  CIA and, in Italy, 89–94

  Nazi ratlines and, 176–85

  Caucasians, 20, 119

  CBS, 136

  Ceauşescu, Nicolae, 78

  Celmins, Gustav, 181, 184

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 42n.–43n., 51, 56, 63, 99, 107, 116, 117, 128, 145

  assassinations and, see Assassinations, political

  Barbie and, xii, 194

  blowback from operations of, 5, 8, 155, 277–87

  creation of, 104, 200

  destabilization and, 244

  Displaced Persons Act “2(d)” cases, 202–203

  double agents, see Double agents

  Dragonovic ratline and, 196

  drug experiments, 150n.

  émigré groups supported by, see éMigrés and émigré groups; names of individual organizations

  former Nazis working for, xiv, 5, 246–63

  Brunner, 248–52, 262

  Felfe, 261–63, 283

  Gehlen Organization, see Gehlen Organization

  von Bolschwing, 246, 253–60, 262

  Intermarium and, 177, 184

  internal purges of, 247–48

  in Italy, 89–94, 95, 234, 238

  International Organizations Division, 227

  legal foundation of, 167n.

  NSC directives expanding power of, 199–202, 203

  NSC 10/2 and, 103

  “100 Persons Act” and, 167, 168, 201

  Office for Policy Coordination (OPC), 103, 104, 105, 121, 145, 195, 209n., 239–40

  assassinations and, 151–55

  guerrilla movements aided by, 149, 151–52, 171–73

  Lebed’s entry into U.S. and, 167, 168, 169, 170

  NSC directives expanding CIA power and, 199

  Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and, 124–36 passim, 201, 205, 254, 256

  PB/7, 153, 154

  propaganda inside the U.S., 9, 217–35, 284

  Central Intelligence Group, 139

  Central Registry of War Crimes and Security Suspects, see CROWCASS

  CFF, see Crusade for Freedom

  Chamberlin, Stephen, 37, 60, 61, 64

  Chechens, 77

  Cherne, Leo, 269

  Chiang Kai-shek, 98, 239

  Chikalov Ring, 151

  China, 98, 190, 218, 239, 240

  China Lobby, 239, 269

  Christian Science Monitor, 268

  CIA, see Central Intelligence Agency

  CIC, see Army, U.S., Counterintelligence Corp

  CID, see Army, U.S., Criminal Investigation Division

  CIOS, see Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee

  Clay, Lucius, 60–61, 64, 136, 228, 281

  Clemens, Hans, 261

  Clodius, Carl, 79

  Coalition for Peace Through Strength, 275

  Colby, William, 90, 92

  Cold war, 6, 7, 54, 59, 69, 98, 106, 136, 158, 192, 225, 277–82, 288, 290

  Bloodstone veterans and, 108

  Kennan’s influence on, 82–95

  Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (CIOS), 25–26, 34

  Committee for a Free Albania, 145, 154–55, 200, 229

  Committee for a Free Europe, 267n.

  Committee for a Free Latvia, 184, 200, 202, 204, 205, 206, 229, 274

  Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, 221–22

  Common Cause, 222, 223

  Communist Party, U.S.A., 57, 122

  Concentration camps, 6, 32, 67, 71n., 74, 79n., 113, 123, 178n., 191, 192, 248, 270n., 274, 287

  Dora, 28–30, 38

  experiments on inmates of, 36, 39

  Waffen SS in, 8n., 180n.

  Congress, U.S., 65, 94, 104–105, 109n., 136, 142, 153, 154, 225, 227, 230, 235

  Captive Nations lobby and, 271–72

  Displaced Persons Act and, 202, 203

  House Committee on Communist Aggression, 269

  lobbying of, 200, 271–72

  McCarthyism and, 237

  “100 Persons Act” and, 167–68

  as originator of foreign policy, 106

  Senate, see Senate, U.S.

  Congress for Cultural Freedom, 128

  Congressional Research Service, 124

  Containment doctrine, 83–85, 218, 226, 233, 236, 240, 241, 244, 278

  Containment or Revolution (Burnham), 277

  Cookridge, E. H., 224

  Cooper, Gary, 90, 91n.

  Copeland, Miles, 250, 251–52

  Corson, William, 58, 68

  Cossack American Republican National Federation, 274

  Cossacks, 17, 22, 132, 274

  Council for a Free Czechoslovakia, 131

  Counterintelligence Corps, see Army, U.S., Counterintelligence Corps

  Cox, Arthur Macy, 52, 55

  Crawford, Charles, 186

  Credulity, Project, 73

  Critchlow, James, 224

  Croatia, 177, 179

  Croatians, 179

  Ustachis, 180, 185, 186, 193, 197, 216, 269

  Crosby, Bing, 90, 91n.

  CROWCASS (Central Registry of War Crimes and Security Suspects), 67–68, 69, 76, 77, 187, 206

  Crusade for Freedom (CFF), 217, 219, 227–29, 233, 234, 284

  Csonko, Emil, 131, 131n.

  Cuba, 10, 58n., 174, 243

  Cummings, Herbert, 37, 38

  Cutler, Robert, 243

 
; Czechoslovakia, 60, 64, 90, 98, 264

  Czechoslovakians, 268

  Dabringhaus, Erhard, 188, 189

  Dallin, Alexander, 158

  Daugavas Vanagi, 10, 204–208, 216, 229

  Daugavas Vanagi Biletens, 207–208

  Daughters of the American Revolution, 225

  Davies, John Paton, 103, 115n., 120

  McCarthyism and, 238–40

  De Mille, Cecil B., 126

  De Toledano, Ralph, 223

  Defense Department, U.S., 6, 34, 154, 169, 172

  Korean War and, 190

  use of former Nazis in cold war strategy, 136–37, 138–48, 151, 172

  Demjanjuk, Ivan, 270n.

  Demjanjuk, Mark, 270n., 287

  Der Spiegel, 54, 60

  Destabilization, 84, 243–45

  Destruction of the European Jews, The (Hilger), 117

  Deva, Xhafer, 123, 124

  Dewey, Thomas, 96

  Dirksen, Everett, 241

  Displaced persons, see DP camps

  Displaced Persons Act, 108–109, 112, 168, 215, 285

  “2(d)” cases, 202–203

  Displaced Persons Commission, 200n., 203, 207, 229

  Docheff, Ivan, 273–74

  “Document on Terror,” 135–36

  Dodd, Thomas, 206

  Doenitz, Karl, 72

  Dollman, Eugen, 93n.

  Donovan, William (“Wild Bill”), 42, 43, 126

  Dora concentration camp, 28–30, 38

  Dornberger, Walter, 27–30, 31, 38, 64n.

  Dosti, Hasan, 123, 124, 145, 154–55, 185

  Double agents, 4, 54, 149–50, 150n., 151, 155, 260–63, 281, 282

  Felfe, 260–63, 283

  Philby, 124, 174, 262

  DP camps, 67, 110, 130, 151, 155, 204

  Dragonovic, Monsignor, 179, 185–87, 190, 193–98

  Dulles, Allen, 5, 8, 90, 92–93, 93n., 96, 106, 171, 244, 246, 289

  Gehlen Organization and, 42, 43, 53, 249, 260

  NCFE and, 125–26

  Dulles, John Foster, 90, 96, 106, 240–41, 242, 260

  liberationism and, 229, 233

  Duran, Gustavo, 57

  Durcansky, Ferdinand, 131

  Dwindle, Project, 73

  Earman, John S., Jr., 107

  Eastern Europe, 40, 54, 59, 84, 102, 106

  Catholic political parties of, 74, 177, 279, 280

  destabilization operations, 84, 243–45

  émigré organizations, see éMigrés and émigré organizations

  liberation of, see Liberationism

  Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and, see Radio Free Europe; Radio Liberty

  repatriation of refugees of, 74–76

  Soviet influence in postwar, 3, 7, 59, 60, 76, 78, 105

  U.S. intelligence gathering on, 4, 8–9, 87, 106, 110, 260

  by Gehlen Organization, see Gehlen Organization

  see also individual countries

  East Germany, 54, 78, 79 and 79n.

  Eaton, Charles, 105

  Eckhardt, Tibor, 236

  Egypt, 248–52

  Eichmann, Adolf, xiii, 47, 48n., 249, 253–54

  associates of, 245, 248–50, 290

  Einsatzgruppen (mobile execution squads), 13, 15, 16, 24, 112, 136, 191, 192

  Einsatzkommandos, 15, 24, 25, 164

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 67, 199, 240, 242, 263, 272

  election of 1952 233, 234–35, 244

  Election of 1952 U.S. presidential, 231, 232–35, 244

  Émigrés and émigré organizations, 9–10, 22–23, 24, 46, 48, 51, 89, 99–102, 104, 110, 123–55, 279–87

  foreign policy of U.S. and, 271–77, 284

  Kennan’s support for, 97, 99

  liberationism and, 217–45, 263, 264–77, 284–85

  Lodge Act and, 210–15

  NSC 86, NSCID 13, and NSCID 14, 199–202

  “100 Persons Act,” 167–68, 169, 201, 257, 285

  Operation Bloodstone and, 99–101, 102, 105, 107, 118, 123–24, 152–55

  Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty and, 125–36

  “ratlines” for, xii, 175, 176–98, 250, 251, 280

  revisionist ideas of wartime role of, 156–59, 229, 231

  “2(d)” cases, 202–203

  U.S. military affairs, guerrilla warfare, and assassinations, involvement in, 138–55, 160, 171–73, 174, 210–15, 263

  see also names of individuals and organizations

  Emmet, Christopher, 222, 269

  Erdely, Dimitry, 79n.

  Erdely, Nina, 79n.

  Estonia, 21, 229

  Estonians, 77, 143, 215

  U.S. Army enlistment of, 211–12

  Eurasian Institute, 115n.

  European Advisory Committee, 88

  European Command, U.S. (EUCOM), 37

  European Recovery Plan, see Marshall Plan

  Evangelista, Matthew, 63

  Exchange Stabilization Fund, 91, 92

  Farouk, King, 249

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 67, 198, 199, 209n., 210

  Federationist, 224

  Felfe, Heinz, 260–63, 283

  Ferencz, Benjamin, 49

  Fischer, Georg, see Brunner, Alois

  Ford, Henry, II, 126

  Foreign Affairs, 60

  Forrestal, James, 83, 84, 97

  Fort Bragg, 213

  Fort Dix, 212

  Fort Devens, 213

  Fort Hunt (Box 1142), 41, 43, 87, 114

  Fort Monroe, 213

  France, 26, 45, 70, 73, 74, 93n., 148, 178n.

  Barbie and, xii, xiv, 187, 188, 189–90, 192

  Brunner and, 249

  covert operations in, 103

  Vichy, 177, 177n.

  Franco, Francisco, 57

  Frasheri, Midhat, 123–24

  Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), xiii, 5, 58, 62n., 120, 145, 150n., 163, 167, 181, 209n., 222, 236

  Free Europe Committee, 200n., 219

  Fremde Heere Ost (FHO), 41, 46

  French Paix et Liberté, 127

  Galicia, see Ukraine

  Gallov, Padre, 179

  Gehlen, Reinhard, 4, 7, 17, 18, 40–46, 47, 48, 50n., 52–56, 59–65, 68, 72, 138, 250, 279, 281–82

  von Bolschwing’s spying on, 253, 256–57

  West German intelligence and, 259–60

  Gehlen Organization, xiii, 40–56, 72, 102, 145, 173, 225n., 230, 248

  Egypt project, 248–52

  Felfe case, 260–63, 283

  influence on American foreign policy, 52–56, 59–65, 281–82

  start of, 7

  von Bolschwing and, 253, 255, 256–57

  General Accounting Office, U.S. (GAO), 122n., 129, 210, 247, 258

  Georgescu, Teohari, 78

  Georgetown University, Foreign Service Institute, 225

  Georgian Government in Exile, 132

  Georgians, Soviet, 21

  German Communist party (KPD), 188

  German League for Struggle Against Inhumanity, 127

  German Rule in Russia (Dallin), 158

  Germany, 68–69, 73, 226

  army of, see Wehrmacht

  Foreign Office, 6, 17, 112, 113, 114, 116, 117, 168, 256

  Gestapo, see Gestapo

  Hitler-Stalin pact, 76–77, 86, 160

  Moscow embassy, 86, 87, 112

  occupied, 151

  administration of, 98

  ratlines from, see Ratlines

  scientists of, see Rockets program, German; Scientists, German

  SD, see SD

  SS, see SS

  surrender of, 40, 68

  see also East Germany; West Germany

  Gestapo, 44–45, 161, 163, 173, 186, 248

  veterans of, 248

  in East German police, 79n.

  in U.S. military, 214, 215n.

  working for U.S. intelligence services, xii, xiv, 45, 69, 260

  Goebbels, Paul Joseph, 48, 146, 221

  members of propaganda ministry of, 241, 242, 2
43, 248, 251

  Goering, Hermann, 72, 73

  Goggin, Roy, 258

  Gogoussis, Nicolaos, 82

  Gorbunov, Sergei, 173

  Gowen, William, 182, 183

  Grace, J. Peter, 126

  Greece, 80–82, 94, 95, 195, 256, 278, 280

  Greek Community party (EAM), 80–81

  Green Berets, see Special Forces

  Grew, Joseph, 219

  Griffiths, Bishop James, 90

  Grobba, Fritz, 78–79

  Grombach, John V., 56–58, 235–38, 242, 243, 281–82, 288

  Grossmann, Ernst, 79n.

  Guatemala, 244

  Guderian, Hans, 20

  Guerrilla army, U.S., 138–48, 210–15

  Gunther, Franklin Mott, 255

  Haganah, 253

  Hagberry, Operation, 151

  Hagemeister, Louis, 79n.

  Hale, Captain, 166

  Halfmoon war plan, 149

  Hardy, Rene, 189

  Harvard University, Center for Russian Research, 117

  Harwood, Richard, 214

  Hazners, Davmants, 274

  Hazners, Vilis, 136, 205–206, 274

  Heidenreich (ex-SS man), 79n.

  Heinz, H. J., 126

  Helms, Richard, 42n.–43n., 150n., 246

  Herre, Heinz Danko, 230

  Herwarth, Hans Heinrich, 17, 18, 68, 86–87, 88, 89, 114, 156, 222, 240

  Heydrich, Reinhard, 48n.

  Heygendorff, Ralph von, 23

  Hilger, Gustav, 6, 17, 24–25, 86, 87, 112–18, 121, 168, 222, 239

  Hilger, Dr. Raul; 117–18

  Hillenkoetter, Roscoe H., 53, 104

  Himmler, Heinrich, 7n., 29, 40, 47, 94n.

  Hirschfeld (SS man), 49

  Hiss, Alger, 218

  History’s Most Terrifying Peace (App), 270

  Hitler, Adolf, 8n., 48, 69, 112, 113, 133, 250

  attempt to assassinate, 86

  rockets programs and, 28, 29

  Slavs and, 16–17, 18, 161–62

  Hitler Youth, 251

  Hmong people, 174

  Hobbins, John M., 196

  Höhne, Heinz, 54, 60

  Holland, 26

  Holocaust, see Jews, Holocaust

  Holy Bond of Greek Officers (IDEA), 81–82

  Hook, Sidney, 270

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 237, 239

  Horthy, Nicholas, 177, 178n.

  Hoxha, Enver, 124

  Hungarian National Council, 229

  Hungarians, 179, 236, 250, 268–69

  Hungary, 78, 90, 102, 113, 117, 157, 177, 178n., 182–83, 256, 270–71, 273

  uprising in, and Soviet invasion, 264–67, 276, 288

  ICBMs, 64n.

  IDEA, see Holy Bond of Greek Officers

  I. G. Farben, 31, 94n., 192

  Immigration and Nationality Act, 214

  Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), 6, 108, 111, 167, 168, 169, 170, 246, 257, 283

  NSC directives affecting, 199

  Institute for the Study of the USSR, 115n., 224n., 247

  Intermarium, 89, 177–85, 194

  Bulletin of, 181

  roots of, 181

 

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