CIA • 2023

"EAGLE AND SWASTIKA: CIA + NAZI WAR CRIMINALS AND COLLABORATORS" CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Approved for Release 2023/69/28 C05657203 SECRET DRAFT WORKING PAPER Chapter Seventeen In the Shadow of the Cold War (U) The Nazi war criminal investigations labored under the shadow of the Cold War. When the Office of Sp-eefatInvestigations reached an agreement with Soviet authorities ih 1980 to interview Witnesses and collect evidence behind the Iron Curtain, doubts arose concerning the motives behind Soviet cooperation.1 Many ethnic groups, especially those from the Baltic States and other Eastern European countries, blasted OSI as a tool for Soviet KGB disinformation activities to discredit anticommunists living in the United States by affixing the "fascist' label on groups that resisted Moscow's oppressive rule. They directed vehement protests against Allan A...