From .......... PARADE MAGAZINE

DECEMBER 22, 1996

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CIA IS OBSTACLE IN HUNT FOR NAZIS

There are thousands of Nazis still being pursued for war crimes they committed more than 50 years ago. The CIA is one of the obstacles to finding those who are alive today.

The agency intervened in October to weaken the War Crimes Disclosure Act, which would have opened U.S. intelligence files on Nazi war criminals to those engaged in hunting them down. Why ? National embarrassment. The U.S. helped some Nazis after the war if they were useful in fighting the Communists.

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