Shadow Of The Swastika Part 4

THE NEW WORLD (DIS)ORDER.

"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in essence, is fascism - owners.h.i.+p of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling power.

"Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing." - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1)

As mentioned earlier, the secret U.S./n.a.z.i corporate alliance during World War II was the result of substantial American investment in post-World War I Germany. In order to protect these investments, and the acc.u.mulating profits, the U.S. multinational corporations remained an important part of the n.a.z.i war machine until the final defeat of Germany in 1945. What effect did the end of World War II have on this faction of American n.a.z.i collaborators?

In this section we will review the evidence, much of it from recently de-cla.s.sified doc.u.ments, that this pro-n.a.z.i faction, rather than facing charges of high treason, became an integral part of the United States national security apparatus, extending its fascist influence in both foreign and domestic policies and, in effect, creating what has been referred to as America's "Invisible Government." The excuse, of course, was Communism.

THE BUGGING OF WALL STREET.

Aarons and Loftus' research, which doc.u.ments the Dulles brothers'

pro-n.a.z.i activities, did not go unnoticed. "Before his death, former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg granted one of the authors an interview. Justice Goldberg had served in U.S. intelligence during World War II. Although he said little in public, he had collected information on the Dulles boys' activities over the years. His verdict was blunt.

'The Dulles brothers were traitors.' They had betrayed their country, by giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war." (2)

Much of what is now known about the activities of the Dulles brothers and other American n.a.z.i collaborators in banking and industry came as a result of a top-secret joint U.S.-British intelligence program known as the Ultra Project. "Prior to the United States' entry into the war,"

write Loftus and Aarons, "Roosevelt permitted British intelligence to wiretap American targets.

"According to our sources in the intelligence community, the area of coverage included a good bit of the New York financial district, several floors of Rockefeller Plaza, part of the RCA Building, two prominent clubs, and various s.h.i.+pping firms. . . .

"The wiretap unit reported to Sir William Stephenson, a Canadian electronics genius better known by his code name, 'Intrepid.' From his headquarters in the Rockefeller building, Stephenson's job was to identify U.S. companies that were aiding the n.a.z.is." (3)

"Several months before the United States declared war," continue Loftus and Aarons, "Bill Donovan invited Allen Dulles to head up the New York branch of the Office of the Coordinator of Information (COI), President Roosevelt's new intelligence agency and the precursor to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Its primary mission was to collect information against the n.a.z.is and their collaborators. In other words, Dulles was asked to inform on his own clients in New York. . . ."

"Roosevelt had approved his selection as head of the COI Manhattan branch because he wanted Dulles where the British wiretappers could keep an eye on him. . . .

"One floor below Dulles was Stephenson's wiretap shop. Inside Dulles's operation was one of Roosevelt's spies, Arthur Goldberg .

. ." who, "confirmed . . . that Dulles's appointment was a setup. . . .

"Roosevelt was giving Dulles enough rope to hang himself. From Stephenson's Manhattan wiretaps, it is known that Dulles was continuing to work with his German business clients, who wanted to remove Hitler and install a puppet of their own who would make peace with the West while forging an alliance against Stalin. It was to be a kinder, gentler Third Reich, favorably disposed to American financial interests. . . . (4)

"The wiretap evidence against Dulles originally was collected by a special section of Operation Safehaven, the U.S. Treasury Department's effort to trace the movement of stolen n.a.z.i booty towards the end of the war. Roosevelt and Treasury Secretary Henry Morganthau had set up Dulles by giving him the one a.s.signment - intelligence chief in Switzerland - where he would be most tempted to aid his German clients with their money laundering."

Roosevelt had one thing in mind: "The sudden release of the Safehaven intercepts would force a public outcry to bring treason charges against those British and American businessmen who aided the enemy in time of war." Among the targets were Allen Dulles, Henry Ford, and other U.S.

industrialists. (5)

The plan failed, however, due to Dulles being "tipped off . . . that he was under surveillance" in time to cover his tracks. One possible source of the leak was Vice President Henry Wallace, "who constantly shared information with his brother-in-law, the Swiss minister in Was.h.i.+ngton during the war."

"Wallace," the authors reveal, "gave many details of his secret meetings with Roosevelt to the Swiss diplomat." The problem was that, at the time, the n.a.z.is "had recruited the head of the Swiss secret service."

It is, perhaps, no coincidence that Roosevelt dropped Wallace during the 1944 election, choosing instead Senator Harry S. Truman as his new running mate. (6)

THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY.

"After the n.a.z.is' 1943 defeat at Stalingrad," write Loftus and Aarons, "various n.a.z.i businessmen realized they were on the losing side and made plans to evacuate their wealth. The Peron government in Argentina was receiving the n.a.z.i flight capital with open arms, and Dulles helped it hide the money. . . .

"The Guinness Book of Records lists the missing Reichsbank treasure [estimated at $2.5 billion dollars] as the greatest unsolved bank robbery in history. Where did it go? . . . .

"According to our source, the bulk of the treasure was simply s.h.i.+pped a very short distance across Austria and through the Brenner Pa.s.s into Italy. Dulles's contacts were waiting at the Vatican. The German-Vatican connection was how Allen Dulles and the n.a.z.i industrialists planned to get away with it. . . ." (7)

The effort was successful, according to the authors, who state that the "vast bulk of the wealth of the n.a.z.i empire" which "disappeared before the end of World War II" reappeared "within a decade in the hands of the same men who financed Hitler's war against the Jews. Allen Dulles's clients were not defeated, only inconvenienced." The authors identify two of Dulles's accomplices as James Jesus Angleton and his father, Hugh Angleton. The Angletons were members of X-2, the OSS counterintelligence branch in Italy, in 1943.

Like Dulles, Hugh Angleton was financially involved with Axis powers. He was the European representative for National Cash Register in Italy before the war and business a.s.sociate of Dulles. When World War II broke out, the authors write,

". . . Angleton was crushed financially as all his investments were in enemy hands.

"Like Dulles's clients, he wanted his money back. Like Dulles, Hugh offered his services to the OSS." With high-placed contacts in Mussolini's Interior Ministry, Hugh was accepted and "promoted rapidly in U.S. intelligence. He became second in command to Colonel Clifton Carter, the OSS commander in Italy at the end of World War II." (8)

Perhaps the most controversial information which is now emerging with the release of recently decla.s.sified doc.u.ments concerning World War II, is the role of the Vatican, both in its pre-war German investments, and its role in helping n.a.z.i war criminals escape justice after the war.

Concerning the Vatican-German investments, Loftus and Aarons are quite clear:

"That the Vatican encouraged such investments and even donated money to Hitler himself cannot be denied. A German nun, Sister Pascalina, was present at its creation. In the early 1920s she was the housekeeper for Archbishop of the Vatican-n.a.z.i connection . .

. Eugenio Pacelli, then the papal nuncio in Munich. Sister Pascalina vividly recalls receiving Adolf Hitler late one night and watching the archbishop give Hitler a large amount of Church money."

In addition, Eugenio Pacelli

"later convinced the Vatican to invest millions of dollars in the rising German economy, money from the Vatican's land settlement that ended the Pope's claim of sovereignty over territory outside the walls of Vatican City. It was Pacelli who negotiated the Concordat with Germany and then had to deal with the consequences of his own mistakes when he became pope on the eve of World War II.

"The Vatican and the Dulles brothers had the same problem. Once their money was in Hitler's hands, how would they get it back?"

The authors interviewed "a former colonel in U.S. Military Intelligence who specialized in tracing enemy a.s.sets. He claimed that only a tiny portion of the Reichbank's gold ingots actually reached the Vatican Bank, while the rest was held in cooperative banks in Belgium, Liechtenstein, and especially Switzerland." It was only necessary to transfer the paperwork on the gold, not the gold itself. Since, by that time, Dulles knew his telegraph communications were being monitored by the British wiretap operation in New York, he instead used couriers to "ensure absolute secrecy in moving the foreign currency and the owners.h.i.+p doc.u.ments out of Switzerland . . . special agents of the Vatican who had diplomatic immunity to move back and forth across both n.a.z.i and Allied lines. . . ." (9)

". . . . The Vatican's eminence grise for Balkan intelligence, the Bosnian-Croat priest Krunoslav Draganovic, was involved in transporting large quant.i.ties of n.a.z.i booty, especially gold bullion, from Austria to the safety of the Holy See with the help of the Dulles-Angleton clique in Rome. Some of the booty was transported in truck convoys run by British troops. Other s.h.i.+pments were carried in U.S. Army jeeps provided to Father Draganovic so that he could conduct pastoral visits' on behalf of the Vatican.

"Another ardent n.a.z.i propagandist and agent, Slovenian bishop Gregory Rozman, was sent to Bern with the help of Dulles's friends in U.S. intelligence. Decla.s.sified U.S. intelligence files confirm that Bishop Rozman was suspected of trying to arrange the transfer of huge quant.i.ties of n.a.z.i-controlled gold and Western currency that had been discreetly secreted in Swiss banks during the war.

For a few months the Allies prevented Rozman from gaining access to this treasure, but then the way was mysteriously cleared. In fact, the Dulles-Vatican connection had fixed it, and before too long the bishop obtained the loot for his n.a.z.i friends, who were hiding in Argentina.

"Such instances turned out to be only the tip of the iceberg. It has long been acknowledged that it was Allen Dulles who tipped off General Patton about the buried German treasure that lay in the path of the U.S. Third Army. Patton explicitly urged General Eisenhower to conceal as much of the gold as possible, but his advice was refused.

"Our sources claim that Dulles and his colleagues exerted a great deal of influence to ensure that Western investments in n.a.z.i Germany were not seized by the Allies as reparations for the Jews.

After all, much of 'Hitler's Gold' had originally belonged to the bankers in London and New York. The . . . captured n.a.z.i loot went underground. . . .

"In the cause of anticommunism, and to retrieve its own investments in Germany, the Vatican agreed to become part of Dulles's smuggling window, through which the n.a.z.is and their treasure could be moved to safety." (10)

On April 12th, 1945, Roosevelt died, and Truman became President. May 7th, n.a.z.i Germany surrendered after the suicide of Adolf Hitler.

September 2nd, j.a.pan surrendered.

World War II finally ended, but at the cost of more than 35,000,000 lives, over half that amount civilians. The death toll for the United States was 294,000. (11)

A PLEDGE BETRAYED.

"Dulles and some of his friends volunteered for postwar service with the government not out of patriotism but of necessity,"

according to Loftus and Aarons. "They had to be in positions of power to suppress the evidence of their own dealings with the n.a.z.is. The Safehaven investigation was quickly stripped from Treasury . . . and turned over to the State Department. There Dulles's friends shredded the index to the interlocking corporations and blocked further investigations.