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  Skorzeny, Otto, 162, 249–52

  Slovakia, 177, 178n., 179

  Slovak Liberation Committee, 131

  Slovo, 67

  Slushba Bespiekie (SB), 165, 165n., 167

  Smith, H. Alexander, 105

  Smith, Jean Edward, 60–61

  Smith, Walter Bedell, 42, 68, 169

  Society of Free Officers, 249

  Solarium conferences, 243–44, 248

  Sommer, Hans, 45

  Sonderkommandos, 15

  Sonnenblume, Operation, 162

  Soobzokov, Tscherim, 285–86

  Souers, Sidney, 104

  South America, see Latin America

  South Vietnam, 243

  Soviet Union, 40, 87

  double agents, see Double agents

  former Nazis recruited for intelligence by, 70, 73, 78–79, 252

  German scientists and, 25, 30, 277–78

  guerrilla activities in postwar, 149

  during Hitler-Stalin pact, 76–77

  Hungarian uprising and, 264–67

  Intermarium and, 181–82

  “KGB defense,” 286–87

  minority nationality problem, 20–22, 77, 149

  Nazis collaborators in, 22–25, 75, 76, 99, 118–19, 131–32, 156–75 passim, 204–209, 220–22, 232, 234

  Nazi slaughter in, 13–25, 44, 47, 49–50, 112–13, 118–19, 161, 162, 163, 234

  nuclear weapons strategy of U.S.

  against, 138–48

  political assassination by, 152n.

  post-World War II military strength, 3, 7

  repatriation of refugees to, 55–56, 57, 60, 61–63, 74–76, 281

  revolution of 1917 21, 67, 152

  seizure of German industrial wealth, 31, 56

  U.S. intelligence gathering on, xv, 3–4, 7, 8–9, 63, 72, 85–88, 98–106, 107, 110, 116, 138, 195, 224

  by Gehlen Organization, see Gehlen Organization

  OSS and MIS, 56–58

  war crime prosecution by, 74, 76, 77–78

  see also Cold war Special Forces, 139–48, 213–15

  Speer, Albert, 72

  Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 91, 92

  Spider (die Spinne) escape organization, 250

  SS (Schutzstaffel), 92, 94n., 158, 184, 204, 205, 208, 209, 274

  German rockets program and, 28–29

  immigration laws changed to permit entry of Baltic, 206–207, 229, 285

  labor companies, 143–44

  RSHA, Amt IV B4, 245

  RSHA, Amt VI, 46–47, 48, 73, 122, 162, 223, 250

  RSHA, Amt VII, 47

  scientists and academics in, 32, 33, 37, 38–39, 47, 70

  in Soviet Union, 15–16, 17, 18, 20, 23, 25, 112–13, 118–19, 222

  veterans of, in East European government, 79

  veterans of, working for U.S.

  intelligence services, xii, xiii–xv, 5, 6, 40–51 passim, 70, 72, 73, 93n., 99, 171, 188, 249–63, 286

  Waffen SS, see Waffen SS

  as war criminals, 8n., 13, 24

  see also names of individuals

  Stachiw, Wolodymyr, 161–62

  Stalin, Joseph, 18, 22, 59, 60, 63, 135

  ethnic minorities and, 77

  overthrow of, 19n., 20

  Stankievich, Stanislaw, 136, 247, 282

  Stashinsky, Bogdan, 152n.

  State Department, xiv, 6, 35, 36, 37, 38, 94, 104, 120, 121, 172, 182, 199, 257, 259

  External Research Staff, 109–10

  Grombach’s work for, 235, 236, 242

  Hilger’s influence at, 115–16, 118

  McCarthyism and, 238–40

  Office of Intelligence and Research, 53, 107, 110

  Operation Bloodstone, see Bloodstone, Operation

  Policy Planning Staff, 8, 82, 95, 97, 98, 100, 103, 114, 115n., 134, 239

  Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and, 126

  records, 79n., 93n., 115n., 201, 202, 203, 221, 224n.

  Stella, Frank D., 273

  Stevens, Francis, 110

  Stevenson, Adlai, 234

  Stetsko (Ukrainian), 165

  Streicher, Julius, 72

  Strik-Strikfeldt, Wilfried, 17, 18, 19n., 24

  Sunrise, Operation, 92–93, 93n.

  Sunsh, Mehmet, 115n., 239

  Supreme Allied Command, 42, 45, 67

  Supreme Ukrainian Liberation Council, 165, 166, 169

  Szalasi, Ferenc, 273

  Taft, Robert, 242

  Tatars, Crimean, 21, 77

  Tats, 118–19

  Taubert, Emile, 248

  Tawney Pippet project, 239–40

  Taylor, Robert, 187, 188

  Technical Intelligence Branch (TIB), 50

  Telefunken, 31

  Tenzerov (NTS man), 224n., 225n.

  Ter Meer, Fritz, 192

  Textron Corporation, 27

  Thayer, Charles, 68, 85, 86–88, 89, 90, 101, 114, 134, 141, 157, 278

  death of, 289

  as target of far right and McCarthyites, 226, 236, 237, 238, 241, 277

  Thomas, Evan, 218

  Thoroughman, Roy M., 71

  TIB, see Technical Intelligence Branch

  Time-Life, 127

  Time magazine, 127, 183

  Times (London), 15, 81, 251

  Tipton, John, 258–59

  Tiso, Josef, 131, 177, 178n., 269

  Tisserant, Eugene Cardinal, 91

  Tito, Josip, 80

  Trifa, Valerian, 136

  Trudeau, Arthur, 260

  Truitt, Marc, 123

  Truman, Harry, and Truman administration, 62–63, 199, 229

  atomic strategy of, 140–41

  Gehlen Organization and, 43, 53, 63

  German scientist recruitment and, 34–35, 37

  postwar foreign policy and aid programs, 80, 82, 83–95, 96, 116, 218, 226, 236

  postwar intelligence operations aimed at USSR, 3–4, 8, 62–63, 97, 98–107, 263

  TsOPE, 133

  Turkestanis, 131

  Turkey, 94

  Turkic people, 132

  Turrou, Leon G., 67–68

  Ukraine, 25, 84, 149, 160–75, 179, 195, 267, 280, 281

  Ukrainian Relief Committee of Great Britain, 180n.

  Ukrainians, 4, 16, 17, 21, 22, 46, 77, 131, 132–33, 136, 160–75, 188, 207, 212, 216, 227, 232, 269, 270n.

  NKVD massacres of, 77

  political assassinations carried out by, 150, 151

  ratline for, 180–81

  relief organizations for, 203

  Ukrainska Povstancha Armia (UPA, Ukrainian Insurgent Army), 4, 46, 149, 158, 160–61, 162, 165n., 170–72, 269

  origins of, 161, 162

  Ulmanis, Karlis, 206

  Ulus, Saldh, 115n., 239

  United Lithuanian Relief Fund of America (BALF), 203, 207–208

  United Nations, 109n., 173, 268

  Korean War troops, 190

  Soviet mission to, 79n.

  War Crimes Commission, xiv, 187

  United Press International (UPI), xii

  U.S. Department of …, see specific departments of U.S. government, e.g., Justice Department, U.S.

  U.S. Embassy in Moscow, 85–86, 112

  U.S. Military Tribunal, 39

  U.S. News & World Report, 62

  University of Berlin, 47

  University of Breslau, 50n.

  University of Washington at Seattle, 121

  UPA, see Ukrainska Povstancha Armia

  UPI, see United Press International

  USSR, see Soviet Union

  Ustachis (Croatian fascists), 180, 185, 186, 193, 197, 216, 269

  U-2 surveillance planes, 64n.

  Vajda, Ferenc, 182–83

  Vanagis, see Daugavas Vanagi

  Vandenberg, Arthur, 105

  Vandenberg, Hoyt, 139, 141

  Vatican, see Catholic Church

  Verbelen, Robert, xiii

  Versailles Treaty, 27, 28, 69

  Vital Speeches of the Day, 169

  Vlaso
v, Andrei, 18–19, 114

  Vlasov Army, 8, 18–21, 22, 46, 102, 114, 130

  NTS and, 221

  revisionist ideas about, 158, 159, 230

  veterans of, 157, 224, 224n., 225n.

  Kennan and, 85, 88, 99, 141, 157

  revival of, 85, 87, 99

  U.S. military strategy and, 138, 141

  Voice of America, 89, 90, 101, 104, 108, 134, 237

  Volga Germans, 77

  von Bolshwing, Otto, xiii, 246, 252–60, 262

  von Braun, Wernher, 30–31, 32, 33, 37, 38

  von Manstein, Erich, 14, 14n.

  von Radetsky, Waldemar, 24

  von Stauffenberg, Claus, 86

  Vorkommando, 47

  Waffen SS, 7, 7n.–8n., 18, 20, 24, 43, 130, 136, 162, 206

  veterans of, 157, 204, 207, 229, 270, 280, 285–86, 287

  in East German government, 19n.

  NSC directives leading to immigration of, 201, 202, 203

  ratline for Ukrainian legion of, 180, 180n.–81n.

  U.S. military and, 138, 143, 144, 145, 146–48, 204, 211, 215

  Waldheim, Kurt, 283

  Wallace, DeWitt, 127

  Wannsee Institute, 48, 48n., 50, 50n., 51

  Poppe at, 119, 122–23

  War Department, U.S., 33, 34, 35, 37, 56, 82, 195

  Military Intelligence Service (MIS), 56, 57

  War Powers Act, 91

  Warsaw Ghetto rebellion, 20

  Washington Post, 214, 276

  Wehrmacht (German army), 8n., 17, 18, 19n., 23, 41, 86, 87, 119, 158

  veterans of, in U.S. guerrilla force, 146–48, 214

  Werth, Alexander, 15, 19

  Western Europe, 59, 190, 244

  Soviet military threat to, 55–56, 57, 59–63

  U.S. covert operations in, 89–95

  West Germany, 39, 53, 54, 55, 115–16, 146, 210–11, 249

  Defense Ministry, 14n.

  intelligence service, 260, 261–62

  pressure to ease war criminal’s sentences from, 190–91

  Social Democratic party, 146, 147, 148

  see also East Germany; Germany

  Wev, Bosquet, 6, 36–37

  Whitten, Les, 273

  Wiesenthal, Simon, 288

  Winant, John G., 88–89

  Wise Men, The (Isaacson and Thomas), 218

  Wisner, Frank, 5, 8–9, 42, 42n.–43n., 90, 100–101

  breakdown of, 288–89

  as head of OPC, 103, 104, 126, 132, 145–46, 149, 171–72, 194, 195, 249, 263

  Hungarian uprising and, 264, 266, 288

  NSC directives expanding CIA power and, 199, 201–202, 203

  Witsell, Edward, 213–14

  Wolff, Karl, 40, 92, 94n., 236

  World Affairs, 223

  World Federation of Cossack National Liberation Movement of Cossackia, 274

  World Latvian Association, 206

  Wright Field (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base), 27

  Yad Vashem archives, 163

  Yale University Political Union, 169

  Yalta agreements, 41, 75, 240, 241

  Yarrow, Bernard, 126

  Ylitalo, Ray, 236, 237, 241

  Yoroshilov, Kliment Y., 152n.

  Yugoslavia, 75, 78, 80, 86, 90, 187, 197, 198, 272

  assassinations in wartime, 148, 149

  secret service, 197

  see also Ustachis

  Yugoslavs, 212

  Zannuck, Darryl, 126

  Zegners, Janis L., 143–44

  Zeiss company, 31

  Zenkl, Peter, 131

  Zinnkann, Heinrich, 146

  Zionism, 253, 254

  About the Author

  Christopher Simpson is a veteran reporter, historian, and analyst who teaches at American University’s School of Communication in Washington, DC. His work has won national awards for investigative journalism, history, and literature, and has been published in more than a dozen languages. Current study includes technology, democracy, revolution, and peer learning.

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  ISBN: 978-1-4976-2306-4

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