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Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy (Forbidden Bookshelf Book 4) by [Simpson, Christopher]

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by Christopher Simpson (Author), Mark Crispin Miller (Editor)

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The true story of how US intelligence organizations employed Nazi war criminals in clandestine warfare and propaganda against the USSR, anticolonial revolutionaries, and progressive movements worldwide that were claimed to be Soviet pawns; includes a new, previously suppressed introduction by the author on the CIA’s declassification of Nazi-related records

Even before the final shots of World War II were fired, another war began—a cold war that pitted the United States against its former ally, the Soviet Union. As the Soviets consolidated power in Eastern Europe, the CIA scrambled to gain the upper hand against new enemies worldwide. To this end, senior officials at the CIA, National Security Council, and other elements of the emerging US national security state turned to thousands of former Nazis, Waffen Secret Service, and Nazi collaborators for propaganda, psychological warfare, and military operations. Many new recruits were clearly responsible for the deaths of countless innocents as part of Adolph Hitler’s “Final Solution,” yet were whitewashed and claimed to be valuable intelligence assets. Unrepentant mass murderers were secretly accepted into the American fold, their crimes forgotten and forgiven with the willing complicity of the US government.

Blowback is the first thorough, scholarly study of the US government’s extensive recruitment of Nazis and fascist collaborators right after the war. Although others have approached the topic since, Simpson’s book remains the essential starting point. The author demonstrates how this secret policy of collaboration only served to intensify the Cold War and has had lasting detrimental effects on the American government and society that endure to this day.

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Publisher: Open Road Media; 1 edition (June 10, 2014)
Publication Date: June 10, 2014
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Language: English
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Vickie Rubinson

A fascinating but troubling account of the U.S. Government recuriting Nazi scientists after WWII.

August 19, 2017

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Blowback investigates a hushed up but vitally important chapter in American history. It explores US recruitment of Nazis and Nazi collaborators in Europe through programs such as the Gehlen Organization, Klaus Barbie's network and the Labor Service Battalions. Perhaps more significantly, Blowback reveals the government-approved (though usually extralegal) immigration of ex Nazis and colloborators into the United States itself and the significant impact this has had on American society.

Among the wealth of new material in this book, Blowback brings to light for the first time how senior members of the State Department and the CIA, including noted diplomat George F Kennan, helped organize clandestine programs that brought high ranking Nazis and Axis government officials to America--and how the State Department has covered up the evidence ever since how the Pentagon falsified its own files to bring former Nazi scientists some of them 55 officers such as Wernher von Braun into the countr, y how in 1948, Nazis on the US intelligence payroll seriously misrepresented the nature and extent of the Soviet threat, thereby heightening the cold war, how the Pentagon trained and equipped former Nazi collaborators for use as anti communist guerrilles in the event of a nuclear confrontation, how the CIA has spent MILLIONS to bankroll anti Semitic emigre political groups inside the United States and has consistently hidden the part played by leaders of these groups during the Holocaust.

Blowback is a sober and sobering account of how a clandestine national security policy often embarked on for limited pragmatic ends, has resulted in a disastrous blowback effect that escaped the control of its instigators, unseated those who had participated in is inception and contributed to the hysteria of the cold war and the McCarthy era. Authoritative, shocking, controversial, Blowback opens for public scrutiny a chapter of our recent history that remains essential to the understanding of our world but that many would prefer to keep shut. LOL.

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Deal Hunter

Losing the Moral High Ground

March 28, 2015

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What? Our country utilized a few Nazi scientists at the end of World War 2? We all know about Werner von Braun and the other Nazi scientists who worked for NASA to help us land on the moon. What this book brings out is how the number of Nazi scientists brought over under Operation Paperclip was in the thousands. In return, the scientists got a start at a new life in America, with their pasts erased, no matter what horrible deads they may have done. Most of the scientists routinely relied on slave labor to create their Wunderwaffen (wonder weapons) in remote underground sites where brutality and executions were commonplace. People in our government rationalized that this was all necessary to prevent the Russians from getting these Nazi scientists to work for their side and help us win the emerging Cold War. But in the process, our country lost a lot of our moral high ground. Since that time, the US has repeatedly used the mantra that the end justifies the means, something that sadly continues to the present day. Further, Nazis with an intelligence background like Reinhard Gehlen helped to shape the U.S's view of the Soviet Union, something that helped end the denazification process in Germany and intensified the Cold War. The deals with the devil our country made have had lasting consequences.

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Russell Dobkins

The US brought thousands of Nazis scientists, and other ...

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The US brought thousands of Nazis scientists, and other war criminals, into the US, and gave them jobs and sanctuary after WW2. This is the story of it.

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Jim Logic

This is a great read and everyone should know about this book

June 25, 2017

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This is a great read and everyone should know about this book......Powerfully enlightening about our corrupt government and it's roots to the Nazis......Was an eye opening read....

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jem

Very interesting and informative.

April 15, 2017

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I gound this book to be very enlightening and interesting. Well written, well presented ..very helpful in understanding today's political climate. In addition to other books I am reading regarding changes which have occurred in our country post-WW II, my understanding has increased.

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