The Rise of the Fourth Reich - ThereAreNoSunglasses

BUSINESS AS USUAL 205According to former U.S. attorney John Loftus, about three hundredranking Nazi sympathizers from the Belarus region of the Soviet Unionwere brought to the United States after the war in hopes they couldprovide intelligence on the motives and abilities of the Soviets. In trackingthe activities of such collaborators, Loftus uncovered a secret unitwithin the State Department, called the Office of Policy Coordination(OPC), which he said was hidden away from normal government operationsand answerable only to Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestaland “the Dulles faction in the State Department.” Loftus found thatthe OPC had recruited Nazi collaborators to fight against communism.When it was discovered that their work was ineffectual, these Naziswere allowed to immigrate to the United States, their former activitiesconcealed.Such men included former Belarusan president Radislaw Ostrowsky,who was offered immunity from prosecution for war crimes; FranzKushel, an SS general who commanded the Belarus Brigade and was responsiblefor the execution of more than forty thousand Jews; StanislawStankievich, who organized the execution of seven thousand Jews; andEmanuel Jasiuk, who, as the wartime mayor of Kletsk, supervised theexecution of more than five thousand Jews in just one day. Both Ostrowskyand Jasiuk are buried in a South River, New Jersey, cemeterynear a monument to Belarusan war veterans, which is topped by the imageof an Iron Cross.In 1948, soon-to-be CIA director Allen Dulles, who had been onhand in 1921 for the creation of the Council on Foreign Relations, authorizedFrank Wisner to use false paperwork to maintain the Vatican“ratlines” for escaping Nazis. Within a year, Wisner’s Nazis were workingfor CIA propaganda fronts such as Radio Liberty and the Voice ofAmerica.Dulles had encouraged the choice of Wisner as head of the OPC,which undertook active operations against the Soviet Union as the ColdWar developed. Although OPC agents in Europe wore U.S. military uniforms,they were paid by the CIA. According to Loftus, “OPC’s programemanated almost entirely from the State Department’s policy and planningstaff, headed by George Kennan.”