#Nazi
27 entries tagged Nazi.
People (19)
- Alfredo Stroessner In September 1988, Ari Ben-Menashe met with Stroessner to persuade him to close down Cardoen Industries' chemical plant in Paraguay, which was producing chemical weapons for Iraq.
- Bernard Baruch Bernard Baruch was an American financier and statesman.
- Cecile Beernaert Cecile Beernaert, grandmother of witness Regina Louf (X1), operated a brothel at a hotel-villa in Knokke-Heist, Belgium, during World War II, catering to Nazi officers stationed in the area.
- Chaim Weizmann Chaim Weizmann was a Russian-Jewish biochemist and prominent Zionist leader.
- Ernst David Bergmann Ernst David Bergmann was a German-born Israeli organic chemist, widely considered the scientific father of the Israeli nuclear bomb.
- Fazle Haq Fazle Haq was a Pakistani general who smuggled U.S.
- Heinz Felfe Heinz Felfe was a former SS officer and KGB double agent who joined the CIA-funded Gehlen Organization in 1951, rose to chief of counterintelligence for the BND, and was exposed in November 1961 after a decade compromising CIA-BND joint operations.
- Herman F. Mark Mark was driven out of Europe in 1938 by the Nazis and eventually became dean of faculty at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, turning it into a haven for Jewish refugees, including Chaim Weizmann.
- Ihsan Barbouti Barbouti procured artillery cups for Cardoen's Santiago-produced chemical weapons from West Germany.
- Joe Biden Joe Biden was a United States President and Senator from Delaware whose political career was closely tied to the DuPont family.
- Karl Maria Wiligut Karl Maria Wiligut (1866–1946) was an Austrian occultist and SS-Brigadeführer who advised Heinrich Himmler on esoteric matters within Nazi Germany.
- Louis de Wohl Louis de Wohl was a German-born Hungarian astrologer and British citizen who became a key figure in Allied black propaganda during World War II.
- Lyndon B. Johnson Johnson's ties to Israel were strong, influenced by his close advisers like Abe Fortas and Edwin L.
- Michel Caignet Michel Caignet, a Belgian neo-Nazi, published the Gaie France magazine in the 1980s and 1990s, a pedophile publication that served as a front for distributing child abuse materials.
- Nicolas Glencross Nicolas Glencross was a British-born French priest who was the uncle of Peter Glencross, the commercial agent for John Stamford's Spartacus International responsible for turning the Elm Guest House into a Club Spartacus spa bath.
- Reinhard Gehlen Reinhard Gehlen was the Wehrmacht's Eastern Front intelligence chief who surrendered to American forces in 1945, negotiated CIA funding of his organization and its Soviet-bloc networks, and directed the resulting Bundesnachrichtendienst from its 1956 founding until 1968.
- Samuel Goudsmit Samuel Goudsmit was a Dutch-American nuclear physicist who served as the scientific head of Operation Alsos, an elite U.S.
- Wernher von Braun Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) was a German-American aerospace engineer and space architect, widely regarded as one of the fathers of rocket technology and space science in both Nazi Germany and the United States.
- Wilhelm Wulff Wilhelm Wulff was a German astrologer who became a personal astrologer to Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsführer-SS.
Organizations (2)
- Ahnenerbe The Ahnenerbe was a Nazi German organization founded by Heinrich Himmler in 1935, ostensibly to research the archaeological and cultural history of the Aryan race, that conducted pseudoscientific investigations including expeditions to Tibet and occult experiments.
- Gehlen Organization The Gehlen Organization was a CIA-funded intelligence network in West Germany from 1946 to 1956, built by Reinhard Gehlen from his Wehrmacht Eastern Front directorate to provide U.S. coverage of the Soviet bloc, before being reconstituted as the Bundesnachrichtendienst in April 1956.
Programs (1)
- Operation Paperclip Operation Paperclip was the postwar U.S. program that recruited over 1,600 German and Austrian scientists from the defeated Third Reich, falsifying Nazi party records to enable their employment, with key recruits Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph later directing major NASA programs.
Events (1)
- World War II World War II (1939-1945) is the global conflict from which the modern American intelligence community was born: the OSS became the CIA, Nazi scientists and intelligence officers were recruited through Operation Paperclip and other stay-behind programs, and the organizational networks, personnel, and covert operational culture of the Cold War era were all shaped by wartime arrangements.
Places (4)
- Argentina Argentina under its military dictatorship (1976-1983) was a central participant in Operation Condor and conducted its own Dirty War against domestic leftists, killing an estimated 9,000-30,000 people; it was also a refuge for Nazi war criminals and a node in CIA-backed anti-communist operations throughout Latin America.
- Brazil Brazil under its military dictatorship (1964-1985) participated in Operation Condor and was a refuge for Nazi war criminals including Josef Mengele; the CIA supported the 1964 coup and the subsequent military government that operated death squads and maintained the DOPS secret police.
- Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (1933-1945) was the Hitler-led totalitarian state responsible for the Holocaust and World War II, whose defeated scientific and intelligence personnel were subsequently recruited by both the U.S. and Soviet Union through programs including Operation Paperclip.
- Paraguay Paraguay under dictator Alfredo Stroessner (1954-1989) was a hub for Operation Condor's cross-border assassination networks, a refuge for Nazi war criminals including Josef Mengele, and a CIA client state whose intelligence services participated in the coordinated Latin American repression documented throughout this vault.