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By Scott Shane
The New York Times
Tuesday 06 June 2006
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Washington - The Central Intelligence Agency took no action after learning the pseudonym and whereabouts of the
fugitive Holocaust overseer Adolf Eichmann in 1958, according to CIA documents that shed new light on the spy agency's
use of former Nazis as informers after World War II.
The CIA was told by West German intelligence that Eichmann was living in Argentina under the name "Clemens" - a slight
variation on his actual alias, Klement - but kept the information from Israel because of German concerns about exposure
of former Nazis in the Bonn government, according to Timothy Naftali, a historian who examined the documents. Two years
later, Israeli agents abducted Eichmann in Argentina and took him to Israel, where he was tried and executed in 1962.
The Eichmann papers are among 27,000 newly declassified pages released by the CIA to the National Archives under
Congressional pressure to make public files about former officials of Hitler's regime later used as American agents. The
material reinforces the view that most former Nazis gave American intelligence little of value and in some cases proved
to be damaging double agents for the Soviet KGB, according to historians and members of the government panel that has
worked to open the long-secret files.
Elizabeth Holtzman, a former congresswoman from New York and member of the panel, the Interagency Working Group on
records concerning Nazi and Japanese war crimes, said at a press briefing at the National Archives today that the
documents show the CIA "failed to lift a finger" to hunt Eichmann and "forced us to confront not only the moral harm but
the practical harm" of relying on intelligence from ex-Nazis.
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Anti-Communist Effort Is Detailed In Agency Records
By Christopher Lee
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 7, 2006; A21
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The CIA organized Cold War spy networks that included former Nazis and failed to act on a 1958 report that fugitive Nazi
war criminal Adolf Eichmann was living in Argentina, newly released CIA records show.
The records were among 27,000 pages of documents made public yesterday at the National Archives. They shed new light on
the secret protection and support given to former Nazi officials and Nazi collaborators by U.S. intelligence agencies as
fighting communism became the central aim of American foreign policy in the years after World War II.
"It was not U.S. policy to track Nazi war criminals once the Cold War began," said historian Timothy Naftali of the
University of Virginia, a Cold War expert who has studied the new documents.
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