"The Central Intelligence Agency took no action after learning the pseudonym and whereabouts of the fugitive Holocaust administrator Adolf Eichmann in 1958, according to C.I.A. documents released Tuesday that shed new light on the spy agency's use of former Nazis as informants after World War II.
The C.I.A. was told by West German intelligence that Eichmann was living in Argentina under the name Clemens — a slight variation on his actual alias, Ricardo Klement — but did not share the information with Israel, which had been hunting for him for years, according to Timothy Naftali, a historian who examined the documents. Two years later, Israeli agents abducted Eichmann in Argentina and flew him to Israel, where he was tried and executed in 1962."
If this report in the NY Times is correct - and there is no reason to doubt it - then the complicity in the Americans not disclosing to, or at least sharing the information with Israel, is appalling. And so much for Israel being a staunch US ally! The full article on some of the 27,000 de-classified CIA documents is only presently available to NY Times TimesSelect subscribers.
The Independent reports the above thus, here.
On a related topic:
"France's government and state railways have been ordered to pay compensation for deporting Jews during World War II.
The case was brought by people whose relatives were taken by train to a transit camp at Drancy near Paris during the Nazi occupation of France.
More than 75,000 French Jews were transported from the camp to death camps in Germany."
So reports BBC News here.
The C.I.A. was told by West German intelligence that Eichmann was living in Argentina under the name Clemens — a slight variation on his actual alias, Ricardo Klement — but did not share the information with Israel, which had been hunting for him for years, according to Timothy Naftali, a historian who examined the documents. Two years later, Israeli agents abducted Eichmann in Argentina and flew him to Israel, where he was tried and executed in 1962."
If this report in the NY Times is correct - and there is no reason to doubt it - then the complicity in the Americans not disclosing to, or at least sharing the information with Israel, is appalling. And so much for Israel being a staunch US ally! The full article on some of the 27,000 de-classified CIA documents is only presently available to NY Times TimesSelect subscribers.
The Independent reports the above thus, here.
On a related topic:
"France's government and state railways have been ordered to pay compensation for deporting Jews during World War II.
The case was brought by people whose relatives were taken by train to a transit camp at Drancy near Paris during the Nazi occupation of France.
More than 75,000 French Jews were transported from the camp to death camps in Germany."
So reports BBC News here.
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