Douglas - The CIA Covenant-Nazis in Washington - preterhuman.net

one, I found a complete set of silver service for twelve. German, mid-19th century and obviously stolen bya GI after the war. But cheap enough and the initial matches my own new name so I had to buy the set.Two heavy boxes that my man carried out to the taxicab. The drivers of these vehicles are quite interestingcharacters. Also bought two miniatures, Elizabethan English, which show a man and his wife. Good framesand good techniques.More work with the Grand Jury people. Levine very strongly exposes extensive communistnetworks here, in Mexico and Canada. At least some of what he produced as evidence makes completesense and I will have to check it out. He thinks I am Swiss and asked me where he could buy a goodcuckoo clock! I told him that these were German and he made a great face and said bad things about theGermans. These encounters are entertaining because I wonder what Levine would do if he discovered thathe had lunch in the hotel suite of the head of the Gestapo! He even mentioned my old agency and went intosome entirely inaccurate history. It was all I could do to keep from laughing in his very serious, pedanticface!Colonel Hoover now claims he has “investigated” over two million US officials and found thatonly about seven thousand were “suspicious.” First, I cannot believe he has investigated so many and myown percentages are far higher. I am looking forward to my interview with him. It would be better tointerview him at my home in Washington. He can sit down while I stand up with the window behind me.That way, I will have the physical and psychological advantage over him. I am told to keep my secretaryaway from him because attractive women tend to annoy him. A very proper man but, according to mybackground information, a savage anti-communist who ruthlessly persecuted thousands both during andafter the 1914 war. Terrible legal troubles later over this but one can see just how he thinks. When Wilsonwas hidden in the White House (syphilis or stroke?) and no one ran the country, Hoover and his people ranamok (a word I learned from Hewel).Americans tend to be either one way or the other. One day they embrace you and the next, beatyou to death with a piece of metal pipe. This mindless chatter will go on for weeks but I have no reason togo back to Washington as long as I can impress people here. This is where the activity is, after all.Perhaps I can get to a concert at the Metropolitan Opera. Is it true that they have a gold curtainthere? Perhaps someday the Americans might reconstitute the Berlin Philharmonic but I doubt ifFurtwängler will ever be allowed to conduct it. After all, he dared to conduct the orchestra when Hitler waspresent and this makes him a dangerous and evil Nazi although all he thought of was skiing, women andmusic. I understand F. was to conduct in Chicago but the Jews in the orchestra there made such a fuss thathe will probably not come.The American Army board has recommended clemency for most of the Peiper men from theArdennes battle. If they didn’t need us so badly to fight the Russians, they would have hanged a lot moreof us.Ambassador Walther Hewel was Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop’s permanent representative atHitler’s military headquarters. As a young student at the Munich University, Hewel had been with Hitler inhis abortive putsch in 1923 and later went to Java where he learned to speak the local language. Hevanished at the end of the war and is reputed to have escaped from embattled Berlin.It was 1951 before Wilhelm Furtwängler, former conductor of the famous Berlin Philharmonicwas permitted to conduct in public again.Thursday, 20 January 1949Today, Truman is to be inaugurated here at a great ceremony. I was invited to attend but havemade my excuses. From what I have seen of American parades, compared with German ceremonies, theyalways seem very amateurish. Besides, I have to go over literally thousands of pages of paper, some mineand some theirs, dealing with communists and I simply cannot spare the time.There was also a large official function last evening, also to which I did not go although one ofmy General friends offered to get me a ticket. I have no interest in meeting with famous Americans at thispoint and besides, my English is not so good yet. Perhaps later when I learn to speak with less accent. I amhiring a speech teacher who thinks I am a Swiss national, which in fact I suppose I am although theGerman is certainly not the same.Cold, very clear and windy. I took a pleasant walk through the streets of Georgetown and noticedall of the very old red brick buildings, built like Dutch houses, almost up to the street and very narrow.Attractive enough and how interesting to compare these old and historic buildings with the awful Negroslums in other parts of town. We would never have permitted such disgusting living areas in Germany butthis is a democracy, as I am constantly being told, and people can largely do as they like.