Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Arthur R. Butz, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century
persons recruited from private life. Thus, it included many political types, ranging
from Communists to émigré monarchists. On account of their organization, the
Communists were naturally a significant force in the OSS, irrespective of their
numbers.
The OSS was deeply involved with propaganda. The OWI (Office of War Information),
the most prominent U.S. wartime propaganda agency, had been the
propaganda division of the “Office of the Coordinator of Information” (Donovan)
when it split off from the OSS in 1942, and the remainder of Donovan’s organization
was renamed the OSS. Despite this separation, the OSS remained active in
the propaganda field, and when the Anglo-American PWB (Psychological Warfare
Branch) was set up in Eisenhower’s headquarters, it drew its American personnel
from both the OWI and the OSS.
Another propaganda operation of the OSS, one which employed a large number
of “progressive writers,” was the MO (Morale Operations) Branch. The mission
of MO was “black propaganda,” i.e. MO specialized in manufacturing
propaganda presented in such a way that it would appear to have come from
within the ranks of the enemy. MO thus distributed forged newspapers and military
orders among enemy personnel, operated clandestine transmitters that purported
to be broadcasting from within enemy territory, and started rumors in the
Axis and Axis occupied countries. Its staff included “liberals and communists
alike, all dedicated to the idealist interpretation of the fight against fascism.”
A particularly relevant facet of the OSS operations was that they had enlisted
the cooperation of the Jewish Agency in Palestine (which was really the unofficial
Israeli government of the time). The Jewish Agency, on account of extensive and
elaborate contacts with Jews in Europe, especially in the Balkans, was able to undertake
many important missions for the OSS. Thus, the channels to Jews in Hungary,
Slovakia, and beyond were open.
Finally, it is of interest that the OSS was very significant on the prosecution
staff at the IMT trial, especially in the early stages. 157
The point to be made in this discussion of the WRB report is certainly not that
it was invented in the OSS or the WRB. I do not know the identity of the authors
and do not believe that the question is of great significance. The main point is that
two “internationals,” the Communist and the Zionist, played important roles in the
intelligence, propaganda, and refugee assistance programs of the U.S. The WRB,
effectively taking its orders from Harry Dexter White, Henry Morgenthau Jr., the
World Jewish Congress, and other Zionists, and the OSS, with its staff of Communists
and its Jewish Agency allies, show that the situation was perfectly suitable
for the manufacture of a Jewish extermination propaganda lie, built about
Auschwitz, which, as a precaution, contained enough real facts to suggest to the
unreflective that the allegations were true.
The interior of the Auschwitz camp was not, by any exercise of the imagination,
isolated from the Allies. The world’s most efficient intelligence organization,
the Communist Party, could transmit any information desired to any destination
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R. H.Smith, 2, 12, 23, 62, 125, 239; Kimche & Kimche, 108.