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

We need more courts and I certainly could use a bigger staff but I neither can ask for one norwould I take any Americans because they have no idea at all about communists or how they infiltrate andburrow.I will have to set up a meeting with Hoover about the British very soon now.Tomorrow, I am off to Mass early and then I will be going back to the National Gallery for apreview showing of the Vienna collection. I have already seen it but I am invited and must go.Irmgard has given up her pursuit of the gardener because I told the firm I have hired to take careof the outside of the house to replace him with someone else. She was very depressed for several days,having peeked at him working in the shrubbery, stripped to the waist. She no doubt imagined his sweatybody bouncing up and down on top of her down in the cool and damp cellar. Such fantasies!Now, she is being nice to Heini again, which is far safer than having pillow conversations with astupid Portuguese gardener.Monday, 21 November 1949Next Sunday, the President will be traveling down to Key West, Florida for a vacation and I willgo down the next day, spending the night in Miami and then driving south out into the ocean along anelevated highway. I have a week to prepare my presentations and am compiling a paper on the activities ofMessers Dulles and Wisner.Truman will be there for three weeks and I expect to have the good part of one day talking to him.At least it will give me a chance to see the tropical world I was once promised by Kronthal.I had a visitor after Mass who delivered some material and whom I invited to stay for a littleluncheon.General conversations:He told me about a colonel who sued Truman to get a promotion. Am told the officer ran anAmerican prison camp in England during the war where soldiers were badly tortured and beaten by theguards. This at the orders of the camp commandant. Some soldier who saw all this reported it to the pressand a great deal of trouble was caused. There were court-martials of a number of men but the Army saw toit that nothing happened to the professional officers.Finally, Truman had to intervene to get some rudimentary justice performed. The officer was alieutenant colonel and last year, he was to be promoted to a full colonel but Truman saw his name anddenied the promotion.This was tried again and again; Truman used his pen on the name. Then the officer had the lack ofcharacter or shame to sue the President, demanding to be promoted. This was quickly sat on.Interesting to compare this with our own army. Firstly, it was forbidden to beat soldiers andtorture had been banned by the Old Fritz (Frederick the Great, 1740-1786, King of Prussia, ed.) nearly twohundred years before. In the second place, an officer who ordered or knowingly permitted such things togo on in the barracks would be sent to prison himself, or during the war, demoted to private and sent to thefront in a penal battalion.The concept of a disgraced and court-martialed officer suing the Commander in Chief of theArmy to force him to promote the officer is simply not to be believed.The officer in question was Lt. Colonel James A. Kilian who had been commanding officer of theU.S. 10th Replacement Depot, located at Lichfield, Staffordshire in England. This was a camp thatprocessed replacement American troops and also housed a number of military prisoners. During itsexistence, over 6,000 prisoners had been processed.Lt. Colonel Kilian instituted a brutal policy of physical harassment of these prisoners thateventually became a matter of public notice. Men were beaten, often in the same areas they had beenpreviously wounded and a number were severely injured. When this was reported by a military witness, theArmy attempted to punish the witness but eventually an investigation was launched. The investigationdisclosed an ongoing, officially sanctioned pattern of sadistic brutality, but in the end, the officersconvicted received small fines and no imprisonment while soldiers who filed complaints were severelytreated while waiting to testify.Kilian, who was an aggressive and very angry man (he once threatened to assault one of thecourt-martial officers in open court), was convicted of the charges of permitting his guards to assaultprisoners and to initiate punishments specifically prohibited by U.S. Army regulations. He was fined $500and officially reprimanded.