RE: Lew Rockwell.com

From: Phil Osborn (philosborn2001@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Jun 07 2003 - 16:55:43 MDT

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    One dimension which the article
    <http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/pavlik2.html>, which
    Jeff Davis ((jrd1415@yahoo.com)
    Date: Sat Jun 07 2003 - 16:00:50 MDT) transcluded for
    us, omitted was the critical transition from OSS to
    CIA.

    Ian Masters <ianmasters.org>, some years ago, on his
    regular Sunday morning "Background Briefing,"*
    interviewed the man who was in charge of the OSS
    operation behind enemy lines in fascist Italy during
    WWII. According to this witness, the following
    scenario played itself out:

    The OSS had built up a library of solid sources,
    operatives and experience throughout Europe. This was
    largely lost when the CIA took over under Truman.
    Desperate for info, the CIA amateurs took what they
    could get, which turned out to largely consist of
    former Nazi's, Fascists and both former and current
    Checka/KGB assets, all of whom had various mixtures of
    motives.

    One long-term motive for many of these "assets" was to
    maintain an environment in which their value as an
    asset outweighed the need to expose or prosecute them
    for war crimes. Thus, both sides - CIA and KGB - fell
    unwittingly into a collaboration, maintained by this
    clique of professional assets, to manufacture and/or
    maintain the state of hostilities we refer to as the
    "Cold War."

    In many, many cases, these war criminals ended up
    getting slotted right back into positions in the
    post-war governments throughout Europe, but especially
    in Germany and Italy, similar to those that they had
    held during WWII. And if someone recognized and tried
    to expose them, well, of course there were ways to
    deal with them, and both sides had a vested interest
    in not allowing the true nature of what they were now
    locked into becoming public.

    Thus, a substantial part of the fascist/NAZI
    infrastructure was put back into place and allowed to
    function for decades as a constant source of fuel for
    the mutual paranoia of East vs. West, to the advantage
    of both CIA and KGB career builders. Or so this man
    claimed.

    *Ian will probably not be on the air, either internet
    or broadcast, this weekend, as the entire weekend has
    apparently been given over to promoting the most
    virulent possible expressions of racism, sexism and
    homophobia imaginable - the "Progressive" idea of
    celebrating our "African American Heritage."

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