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

Perhaps someone should go to a local lunatic asylum and get out a few inmates. I am certain theycould do a far better job than the ones now in place.More paintings, these from the Weill collection in Paris, have sold and a packet of money will bedelivered here on the weekend. Two of the pictures with damaged frames have been returned by my newfriend at the National Gallery. A really magnificent restoration job I must say. One cannot detect where theoriginal gesso left off and the new repairs began. I gave my friend a little scribble by Picasso that had himmoist with joy. Some people are so easily pleased after all!Saturday, 25 June 1949The Coplon woman is obviously some kind of a mental case. Yesterday she claimed that she wasnever a communist and blamed everyone around her for making false statements about her. It came out thatshe had slept with someone from the Justice Department but she swore they were both fully clothed at alltimes. That does not preclude having a sexual encounter although I imagine it would make the act lessenjoyable. Unless, of course, they were at the North Pole. I will have to travel to New York the first part ofnext month. No escaping the hot weather there either.Friday, 1 July 1949Coplon received a ten-year jail sentence on Thursday. Still hysterical, she thinks she was falselyaccused. I think she misses G. who is slated to be tried later this month. Quite warm today but the sky isovercast. (John, ed.) McCloy will be the new High Commissioner for Germany. I do not think there will beany trouble with him because Truman says that McCloy will “be reasonable” when dealing with theGermans and is expected, from private knowledge here, to grant some mercy to a number of people,including many of the SS.Leaving tomorrow by train for New York City where I will stay at the Plaza again. The same suitewith the view of the Park. I will go to a number of entertainments while I am there. More when I get toNew York.John J. McCloy, whom Truman appointed as High Commissioner to Germany did indeed prove tobe very sympathetic to the Germans, especially to many who had been convicted of various actions duringthe war. He granted amnesty to many, some of whom immediately went to work for the United States,either directly or with the U.S.-controlled Gehlen organization in Pullach. By 1949, it had been decided inthe United States and at the highest levels that a war with Soviet Russia might well transpire and thatformer SS and Police officials could be of great value in this war.Witness, obviously, the fact that the Chief of the dreaded Gestapo was now living in great comfortin the capital of his former enemy and beginning to formulate policy matters with complete impunity and agreat deal of official approval.Times change and we must change with them. Müller certainly didSaturday, 2 July through Wednesday, 6 July 1949Very hot and often violent weather in New York. On Saturday I stayed at the Plaza and in theevening went to the Radio City Music Hall where they had a stage show called “Flying Colors” in theevening. Some youngish women with very nice legs that I do appreciate. I went with a U.S. Attorney whois working on the trials and he seemed to enjoy the flesh almost as much as I did. Truman, I see in thenewspapers, is out on the Potomac River in his yacht, trying to keep cool in the heat.Later in the evening, the attorney and one of his friends and I went to a lounge and there I wasfortunate to encounter another very attractive young woman with even nicer legs than the ones on thestage. A few drinks, mostly Cognac, for both of us and a cigar for me, and she finally decided to “have anightcap” in my room. I was introduced as a Swiss working for the government (after all, that’s whatalmost everyone else thinks) and she at once asked me about gold watches.I assume she thought I carried a trunk of them around with me to pass out as favors. She drank toomuch and I had to sober her up somewhat. I do not like sleeping with corpses after all. In truth, it was apleasant evening and I am supposed to take her, (her name is Eunice) to a concert tomorrow night. Iturbiwill conduct Brahms and Mozart. I can take the one but not the other, and afterwards we can ride one ofthose carriages around the park and then back to the hotel. E. works as a technician at the Museum hereand we had an interesting conversation, after our encounters, about Manet. She seems to know somethingabout him but fortunately, nothing about me.