Blowback

A searing account of a dark “chapter in U.S. Cold War history . . . to help the anti-Soviet aims of American intelligence and national security agencies” (Library Journal).

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Even before the final shots of World War II were fired, another war began—a cold war that pitted the United States against its former ally, the Soviet Union. As the Soviets consolidated power in Eastern Europe, the CIA scrambled to gain the upper hand against new enemies worldwide. To this end, senior officials at the CIA, National Security Council, and other elements of the emerging US national security state turned to thousands of former Nazis, Waffen Secret Service, and Nazi collaborators for propaganda, psychological warfare, and military operations. Many new recruits were clearly responsible for the deaths of countless innocents as part of Adolph Hitler’s “Final Solution,” yet were whitewashed and claimed to be valuable intelligence assets. Unrepentant mass murderers were secretly accepted into the American fold, their crimes forgotten and forgiven with the willing complicity of the US government.

Blowback is the first thorough, scholarly study of the US government’s extensive recruitment of Nazis and fascist collaborators right after the war. Although others have approached the topic since, Simpson’s book remains the essential starting point. The author demonstrates how this secret policy of collaboration only served to intensify the Cold War and has had lasting detrimental effects on the American government and society that endure to this day.


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Blowback  –   Christopher Simpson  (May 11, 2019)    (Playlist)

New Book series! Blowback, by C. Simpson. Part 1

Blowback, by Christopher Simpson, part 2, reading and comments

Blowback, part 3

Blowback part 4

Blowback, part 5, reading and comments

Blowback by Christopher Simpson, part 6

Blowback, part 7, by C. Simpson

Greek Civil War, Italian elections: CIA Ops: Blowback part 8

Operation Bloodstone: Reading and comments, Blowback part 9

George F. Kennan’s Cold War: blowback part 10

RFE, Radio Liberty, Nazi collaborators:- Blowback part 11, Christopher Simpson

Guerilla Warriors for WWIII: CIA, OPC, Frank Wisner and the use of ex-Nazis in post-war Europe.

Ukraine, Nazi collaborationist armies, Slavic “subhumans,” anti-Semitism, and US intelligence

Wisner, Dulles, Lebed, and Philby: Blowback part 14

“Ratlines”— Blowback part 15

More “Ratlines”— Blowback part 16

“Pipelines to the United States”—Blowback part 17

“Liberation”, the politics of the CIA, part 18 of Blowback

Blowback 19

Brunner, von Bolschwing, and Skorzeny: Blowback, part 20

Tragedy in Hungary; Frank Wisner and the end of “Liberation”-Blowback, part 21

Blowback part 22: conclusion

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