Klaus Barbie

The Shocking Story of how the U.S. Used this Nazi War Criminal as an Intelligence Agent : a First Hand Account

• Author(s): Erhard Dabringhaus,
• Publisher: Acropolis Books
• Pages: 207
• ISBN_10: 087491731X
  ISBN_13: 9780874917314
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , History / Military / Intelligence & Espionage , True Crime / Espionage ,

Description:... An account of the exposure in 1983 of Klaus Barbie as a war criminal and as a former employee of the U.S. Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC) in the postwar period. Barbie's wartime activities and participation in war crimes were known to the author, Barbie's former intelligence controller, by August 1948 and reported to his superiors. CIC decided to continue using him in order to penetrate communist circles in Germany. They misled French authorities as to his whereabouts and helped him escape to Bolivia. Notes that many other former SS officers and Nazis were employed by U.S. Intelligence. Criticizes the official report by the Justice Department justifying the U.S.'s use of Barbie's services.