A Nation Betrayed: Secret Cold War Experiments Performed on Our Children and Other Innocent People (15 page)

The report goes on to say, “The CIC in Germany, for example, recruited as an agent and sheltered Klaus Barbie, an SS officer later convicted for his role in rounding up Jews in France and for suppressing the French resistance. The Army smuggled Barbie out of Europe, thereby enabling him to escape justice for over 30 years in his South American hideouts...Within months after World War II, OSS and later US intelligence agencies were faced with the issue of how to handle intelligence assets who could not safely remain in Europe. In some cases, the Army used a ‘rat line’ to evacuate these individuals (mainly Soviet Army defectors and Soviet Bloc refugees) to South America. This clearly was an inadequate measure that was subject to misuse, as was later demonstrated with the Barbie case.”

Another group who seems to have a connection with Mengele, Nixon, and Operation Paperclip was the Iron Guard. The Iron Guard (Green Shirts) was the Rumanian equivalent of Hitler’s “Brownshirts” and was working towards achieving a Nazi Romania. They were the combat arm of the Legion of Archangel Michael, a mystical fascist movement. In January 1941 during a three-day Iron Guard revolt, the estimated death toll of Jews was between 4,000 and 6,000 in Bucharest and nearly 10,000 throughout the country.
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The source of the tanks, guns, and munitions used in the revolt were Nicolae Malaxa. He was the chief contributor to the Iron Guard and the wealthiest man in Rumania, if not all Eastern Europe.

In 1936, Malaxa went to Berlin to meet with Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering and the two men parted as business partners. This personal agreement became formalized in the 1940 Wohlstadt Pact, which integrated Malaxa’s industries with Germany’s. Directing this new Nazi industrial coalition were Nicolae Malaxa and Albert Goering, younger brother of the Reichsmarschall.
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When the Nazis were defeated, Malaxa signed personal contracts with Grady McClaussen, head of the OSS in Rumania. McClaussen would be paid certain sums of money once Malaxa got in the US. In 1948, he immigrated to the US and began claiming millions of dollars, which had been deposited before the war in Chase National Bank. He was to fight a fierce legal battle to regain this money, which had been frozen as enemy assets during the war by the Treasury Department.

Recruited and compensated to help assist in Malaxa’s legal suits were Secretary of State John Foster Dulles’s law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell.
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Because of the eyewitness testimony at the Immigration hearing of the Iron Guard atrocities, Malaxa was forced to use bribery to help him gain entry into the United States.
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Richard Nixon, junior senator from California introduced a private bill in 1951, which would allow Malaxa to remain permanently in the United States. The bill was defeated, so Malaxa organized a solely owned company known as the Western Tube Corporation in Whittier, California-Nixon’s hometown. Nixon signed a letter in September of 1951 urging the federal government to give the firm a “certificate of necessity,” and Malaxa a “first preference quota” for permanent residence in the United States on the grounds that he was essential to the construction of the plant. At the time Western Tube had the same address and phone number in Whittier as Nixon’s former law firm, Bewley, Knoop & Nixon.
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The appeal was successful and Malaxa was admitted from Canada. He obtained permanent residence in the United States and nothing further was ever done to make Western Tube a reality.
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According to Seymour Hersh, the top men at the CIA had a copy of a check for $100,000 made out to Nixon by Nicolae Malaxa.
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Gordon B. Mason, who had served undercover in the CIA station in Bucharest from 1947 to 1951 and then had returned to run the CIA’s Romanian operations desk in Washington, told Mr. Hersh one of the tellers in the bank was a Romanian exile and had been paid to turn over the copy of the check. The report of the transaction was moved through the CIA’s chain of command from Frank Wisner to Allen Dulles, and finally to Walter Bedell Smith head of the CIA since 1950.
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In 1954, Mengele purchased a house in Argentina near Juan Peron’s old estate. That same year, Nicolae Malaxa visited with Juan Peron and with Otto Skorzeny
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in Buenos Aires where Josef Mengele now lived.
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It certainly takes no stretch of the imagination to tie this cozy little group together. Certainly there was communication between them. In fact U.S. Attorney General William Rogers intervened in an appeal by Malaxa against deportation in 1958. Malaxa won this appeal, but died ten years later. Congressmen Shelley had this to say, “How interesting that this man...found sanctuary in the United States thanks to Richard Nixon and Mr. Rogers.” He goes on to say that thousands of displaced persons “would have done better if they transported plunder and been friendly enough with Richard Nixon to obtain his personal intervention in their behalf.”
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Another Nazi war criminal that participated in the Iron Guard pogrom in 1941 in Rumania was Otto Albrecht Alfred von Bolschwing. The German-born von Bolschwing had previously served as an officer in the SS and had worked in the same office with Adolf Eichmann in the 1930s. Von Bolschwing had been one of the CIA’s leading agents in Austria after World War II. They brought von Bolschwing to the United States, and he received American citizenship in 1959. In 1981, a Federal court stripped him of that citizenship.
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Dr. Charles Kremer, a New York dentist spent twenty-five years of his life collecting evidence to convince our government to deport another Iron Guardist, Valerian Trifa. In Howard Blum’s book Wanted! The Search for Nazis in America, he devotes an entire chapter to exposing these Iron Guard killers living in America. His account of Iron Guardist Valerian Trifa, who was invited by then Vice President Nixon to offer an opening prayer in the U.S. Senate is compelling.
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Trifa had also worked in Vienna as an agent for Gehlen’s spy network before coming to the United States in 1950.
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In April 1952, Trifa, a layman, was consecrated a bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. On July 4, 1952 just a few days before Carmel Offie handed me over to the CIA, Trifa took over the Rumanian Orthodox Episcopate Church in Grass Lake, Michigan
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during an armed assault with other Rumanian Guardsman. Trifa supposedly functioned as an OPC asset for the disruption of Romania, so perhaps Offie in his capacity with OPC was there in Grass Lake helping Trifa with his coup when my mother went into labor.
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In a military style operation they cut phone lines and began their assault. The two hundred acre estate was surrendered to Trifa and his priests. His episcopate encompassed forty-six parishes.

He then began emigrating former Iron Guardists and even ordained some of them as priests. Burton Hersh says Nicolae Malaxa financed Trifa in the U.S.
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One Guardist who had been sentenced to death in 1941 for crimes committed emigrated from Argentina to Windsor, Ontario. In 1972, the president and vice president of a Parish in Buenos Aires congratulated Bishop Trifa in writing on the twentieth anniversary of his ordainment. Again we find a tie to one of the hiding places of Josef Mengele. In 1975, Dr. Kremers’ tireless efforts were rewarded when the Immigration and Naturalization Service brought a case against Trifa in Detroit, Michigan. He was accused of being the leader of the Iron Guard in Romania. After fighting denaturalization, Trifa consented to the revocation of his citizenship in 1980. He then appealed his own consent decree. Trifa left the United States for Portugal on August 13, 1984 where he lived there until his death in 1987.

According to journalist Russ Bellant in an article he wrote for Washington Jewish Week, a coalition for the 1988 Bush campaign included Florian Galdau as director of GOP outreach efforts among Romanians and head of “Romanians for Bush.”
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Galdau was once an Iron Guard recruiter, and he defended convicted Nazi war criminal Valerian Trifa.

Perhaps having read these connections you can open your mind to believe the rest of the survivors’ stories. A survivor reported contact with Dr. Mengele in November of 1952 at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. The same survivor reports contact with him in Germany in December 1954. Exactly when he came back and forth into the U.S. and Canada will probably only be known when all of the survivors’ stories are listened to and believed. I will intersperse sightings as recounted to me, with known places where Mengele lived and traveled.

A document obtained from the Department of Energy’s web sight before the Department of Defense pulled access to their records, names a Dr. Gregor. Dr. Gregor was being paid through the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1953 for an Edgewood Arsenal contract entered into by their Medical Laboratories. His name appears among a list of 27 that were privately contracted to do work.
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Along with Dr. Gregor’s name is another well-known MKULTRA experimenter, Dr. Hoch, of the New York Psychiatric Institute. You will remember Dr. Hoch as having injected mescaline into Harold Blauer in 1953 causing his death.
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Upon receipt of my FOIA request with copies of the above documentation, the Army informed me they had no records. I was appalled since I had sent them copies of the records, which actually gave them the file cabinet number and drawer at Edgewood Arsenal where this information was housed. I appealed and again sent copies of the documentation. They sent my appeal to the General Counsel of the Army in the Pentagon, where they “tasked the U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) for documentation.” They informed me “upon receipt of appropriate documentation from MEDCOM, your appeal will be assigned to one of our attorneys for review.” Let us hope that this will not take as long as the appeal through the CIA.
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Just another uncanny coincidence, that Mengele’s alias in 1953 in Buenos Aires where he worked in a lab was Dr. Gregor? In 1958, he was arrested in Buenos Aires under the alias Dr. Gregor for practicing without a license and performing an abortion on a girl at a back street clinic where the girl died. Mengele also used Gregor as an alias when he went to the Argentine consulate before fleeing to Buenos Aires in 1949.

Josef Mengele’s father visited him in 1954 giving him a million marks to purchase half the shares of a pharmaceutical company. He also divorced his wife and then married the widow of his elder brother. A Survivor whose memories are somewhat sketchy reports coming into contact with him in Florida in 1954. It is well documented that Mengele was indeed traveling in 1954. He went to Paraguay in 1954 and met with Alejandro von Eckstein, a captain in the Paraguayan army, who later cosponsored Mengele’s bid for Paraguayan citizenship in 1959.

The Doolittle committee appointed by President Eisenhower issued a report containing this statement in 1954:

“It is now clear that we are facing an implacable enemy whose avowed objective is world domination by whatever means and at whatever cost. There are no rules in such a game. Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of “fair play” must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage, and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It may become necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant policy.”
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Some of us became intimately acquainted with this repugnant policy. The same survivor who had contact in Florida with Dr. Mengele in 1954 reports that she had contact with him in Nashville, Tennessee in 1955 when he would come in by plane, stay a few days to do programming and then leave. It was in 1955 that he obtained a 120-day Argentine passport enabling him to travel. This is the survivor’s own account of her intimate contact with this evil escapee from Nazi Germany:

“As he got older and turned gray he called himself ‘Grandfather.’ He used the movie Heidi with me, and he became ‘the grandfather.’ I think the insidious part of his work with me was the love thing. He would love me and torture me. Whatever he did had that element. He must have trained my father as well, because that is what my dad was told to do as well. One of Mengele’s favorite phrases was, “Pain is pleasure, and pleasure is pain, my dear. I am here to make you very happy! You will love me forever!”

“Earlier he had black hair (sort of FBI cut-longish on top and short on the sides), walked around in black boots and carried a riding crop that was really a cattle prod. He played the piano, violin, and liked Wagner and music of that sort. He used Handel’s Messiah on me often. I remember being on the floor with him playing piano in nothing but his boots and a tuxedo coat with tails, as he ordered the men working with him to shock me with cattle prods while he played. It was sort of like musical chairs--when he stopped playing, they stopped shocking; or when he played, they stopped, according to which rules he used that week! He liked the latter better because he wanted me to listen to him play and love it! He also did this playing his violin.”