America's Nazi Secret: An Insider's History (3 page)

There are other oddities. Someone has shredded the bulk of the CIA's entire file collection on the Muslim Brotherhood. There are only a few press clippings in the file. The
New York Times
continues to publish puff pieces about the wonderful Muslim Brotherhood as an old fashioned anti-colonial political group that may play a modern role in a future Egyptian government. The truth, as this book reveals, is that the Muslim Brotherhood was the original Arab Nazi movement, working for British intelligence to crush the infant State of Israel. In the 1980s it was hired by American intelligence to recruit the
Mujahadeen
in Afghanistan, and it is now the parent organization of every Sunni terrorist group in the Middle East. A rather significant omission in the Times' coverage of the Muslim Brotherhood, wouldn't you say?

A favorite quote of mine is from George Orwell, author of
1984
: “The omission is the most powerful form of lie, and it is the duty of the historian to ensure that those lies do not creep into the history books.”

There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be.

–
New York Times
, Nov. 15, 1931, page 1

Enemies and foreign critics can say what they please. Weaklings and despondents at home may groan under the burden, but the youth and strength of the Russian people is essentially at one with the Kremlin’s program, believes it worthwhile and supports it, however hard be the sledding.

–
New York Times
, December 9, 1932, page 6

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

–
New York Times
, March 31, 1933, page 13

You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.

–
New York Times
, May 14, 1933, page 18

Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda
.

–
New York Times
, August 23, 1933

[The news dispatches of Walter Duranty, the New York Times Moscow correspondent who won the Pulitzer Prize for a lie: he covered up the Ukrainian Famine to conceal Stalin’s crimes.]

The
New York Times
has a long history of deception by omission. During WWII, the
Times
omitted numerous reports of Nazi atrocities against Jews, and buried even the smallest mention of what we now call the Holocaust in its back pages. The
Times
has since acknowledged this as a major journalistic failure. During the post-war struggles that lead to the creation of the State of Israel,
Times
' reporting can best be described as neutral or in favor of the Arabs, perhaps because the owner of the paper had publicly declared that if Israel ever became a nation, he would “resign from the Jewish race.”

That owner frequently corresponded with his friend, Robert P. Joyce of State Department intelligence. He offered the newspaper as a cover for covert operations. The
Times
has never reported that its foreign bureaus were used to support the assassination of President Allende in Chile, the overthrow of the Mossadegh democracy in Iran, and the hiring of former Nazi intelligence officers during the Cold War.

Unlike almost every other major American newspaper, the
Times
did not provide front-page coverage of the
60 Minutes
segment in 1982 describing the revelations in
The Belarus Secret
. Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh, a former employee of that newspaper, called to congratulate me for forcing the
Times
to cover the story at all: “Don't you understand? You made them do it.”

Mark Richard has passed away, but Allan Ryan, Dick Sullivan's best buddy from the Justice Department, continues to write the occasional book review for the
New York Times
. Of course that could just be another one of those odd coincidences. On the other hand, it could explain how some books became invisible to the general public. Books about the Holocaust rarely remain invisible in the Jewish community, but then many Jewish Americans seem not to want to know this history.

One very nice reporter for a small Jewish newspaper in California told me why she had so much trouble reading this book: “I read the cover and then stared at your book for a full week. I was afraid to read it because if I did, it might be true, and then my world would change. It was like that movie
The Matrix
, where they offered a pill that would make you wake up. Did I want to wake up?”

She eventually did, and wrote a fine review. But I think most people probably would rather not know the truth.

That will not stop me from writing, however. I intend to describe as much as I can about important omissions in the official histories reported in the press.

Table of Contents

Cover

America’s Nazi Secret

Page ii

Publisher Quotes

Publisher’s Foreword

Dedication

John Loftus, 1982.

Introduction

Preface

Prologue

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Epilogue

Notes

Documents
&
Photographs

John Loftus, 1982.

Introduction

Let us begin at the beginning. I have already told a bit about myself in the original Prologue to this book, so I will let stand what is written. What I did not say then was how very, very much I wanted to be a Federal Prosecutor. “It is the only job for an honest lawyer,” they said. “You can always decide whether or not charges should be filed, while defense counsel has to take every criminal who walks in the door.”

I wanted an honorable life, to be a priest at the Temple of Justice. I started as a law clerk under the Attorney General’s Honors Program. Every year a few dozen bright-eyed young law school graduates are chosen from among thousands of applicants to work at the Department of Justice. In 1977 I entered Department of Justice headquarters, a monumental building in Washington DC, on Pennsylvania Avenue, halfway between the White House and the Capitol.

I was twenty seven years old when I was assigned to the Criminal Division, Appellate Section. My office was on the second floor, next to the “Great Hall of Justice.” Depression-era mosaics lined the walls and staircase, depicting the famous lawgivers of history, from Hammurabi to the Prophet Mohammed.
[1]
On center stage was the famous statue of the “Spirit of Justice” a semi-nude woman without blindfold or the scales of Justice.
[2]
Our Latin motto translated as “We who follow the Lady Justice.”

My new boss shook my hand and said, “Welcome to the Justice Department. You now represent the most corrupt client in the world, the United States Government.” I thought he was kidding. I still think he was wrong. I did not work for the most corrupt client, just the most corrupt law firm.

For nearly a century, Wall Street has made the Justice Department its principal target of acquisition. Huge corporate campaign donations come with a price. The donors get to name the Attorney General … not always, but often. You cannot buy the US Government, but the Justice Department is for rent. It is a very lucrative business.

The environmental crimes unit at Justice can make or break corporate polluters.

The Tax Division controls the IRS through binding interpretation of tax laws. When Congress passed the Refugee Relief Act in the 1950s banning immigrants who supported totalitarian regimes, Justice’s INS interpreted the ban to apply only to those who advocated a totalitarian regime in the United States. Thus, Congressional intent to ban the immigration of those who had supported the regimes of Hitler, Mussolini or Tojo was simply reversed by Eisenhower’s Attorney General. Instead of banning Nazi immigrations, DOJ said the law legalized the immigration of former Nazis as long as they did not try to establish a Fourth Reich in America. Worse, that twisted interpretation was deployed to obstruct the Justice Department’s Nazi hunters three decades later.

Corruption in Justice has been going on for a long time. At the Treaty of Versailles negotiations, the Attorney General was described by the press as the “bag man” for the law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell.
[3]
During WWII, this same law firm represented American corporations whose assets had been seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act because they operated as Nazi fronts, while at the same time other members of the firm volunteered as the Justice Department’s prosecutors, officially titled the Alien Property Custodians. It is a matter of historical record that the American Bar Association’s code of ethics for conflict of interest arose in response to the conduct of Sullivan and Cromwell attorneys.

Some may say that I am a bit harsh, that perhaps some misconduct occurred in the past which would never be tolerated in the modern Justice Department. After all, one Attorney General, Elliot Richardson, resigned rather than cave in to President Nixon’s corrupt and unlawful orders. What the defenders of DOJ tend to gloss over is that once the Attorney General had resigned, the rest of the bureaucrats at Justice were all too willing to carry out Nixon’s commands.

The bottom line is that corporate control of Justice protects the corporations’ bottom lines. For example, the Federal Courts once ruled that the Big Tobacco companies had to pay billions and billions of dollars to reimburse Medicare and Medicaid for the cost of caring for the victims of lung disease. The Big Tobacco companies donated a few tens of millions to elect a Republican President, who appointed a Tobacco-friendly Attorney General. Embarrassed federal prosecutors told the court that they had been ordered to request a much lesser amount of damages than the Judge had already awarded. The Justice Department gave billions of the taxpayers dollars back to the Big Tobacco companies.

While most of the corporate shenanigans occur under Republican administrations, the Democrats are occasionally involved as well, especially when the concern is to protect the image of the Justice Department itself. For example, while the Office of Legal Counsel gave the George W. Bush administration a free pass to ignore binding treaties on torture and prisoner interrogation, every first year law student knew better. But Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder declined even to press ethics charges against the Bush-era OLC attorneys, leaving the matter to their State Bar Associations. When you work at Main Justice, no one ever goes to jail. Ask Ed Meese.

Back in 1977 when I started at DOJ, I was still a bit innocent for someone who had worked his way through college as a campaign professional in Boston politics and then served as an Army Officer. In the beginning, I loved my job at “Main Justice,” as we called DOJ Headquarters. They used to give us bus tokens to go up to Capitol Hill and listen to federal criminal cases argued before the Supreme Court.

Once, without knowing it, I sat next to the defendant in a murder case – an Army doctor and Green Beret who had murdered his entire family. I later learned that one his of early defense counsels was a former Special Assistant Attorney General. Special indeed. He was the Justice Department lawyer who let free all the American corporate executives who had stayed in Germany to help their Nazi clients. These businessmen had literally given aid and comfort to the enemy during the war. All the striped-suit traitors were held in a joint prison camp code named Ashcan/Dustbin.
[4]

The prison camp was under British authority, but the guards were all Americans. One of the guards told me years later that one of the pompous prisoners boasted that his friends at the Chase Manhattan Bank would take care of him. “Are you sure they would even want to hear your name?” the guard asked, confident that no American business would ever help someone accused of treason.