America Secretly Recruited Thousands Of Nazis As Cold War “Assets”

Winston Churchill once said that “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.” By ‘everything else’ apparently he also meant hiring thousands of Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, according to the NYT, “as recently as the 1990s, concealing the government’s ties to some still living in America.”
Because remember when merely associating with Nazi war criminals was enough to get you thrown out of polite society in perpetuity and likely thrown in a US prison, or worse? Well, when the one doing the association is that creature of utmost “fluidity” when it comes to matters of morality, the US government, apparently preaching moral superiority while invading and targeting for extermination world “dictators” whose only crime is being “evil” according to the US government’s pristine moral compass, then everything is forgiven. But before the truth is revealed there will be years of denying, misrepresenting the facts, and outright lying.
So here, according to the NYT, are the facts about Uncle Sam’s employment of Nazis for decades. “At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, law enforcement and intelligence leaders like J. Edgar Hoover at the F. B. I. and Allen Dulles at the C. I. A. aggressively recruited onetime Nazis of all ranks as secret, anti-Soviet ‘assets,’ declassified records show.”
And while Germans justified their actions during World War II by merely following orders, how did the US seek to validate its grotesque actions? Here is the NYT with the winning phrase of the day, if not year:
They believed the ex-Nazis’ intelligence value against the Russians outweighed what one official called ‘moral lapses’ in their service to the Third Reich.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 10/27/2014.