America's Nazi Secret

America's Nazi Secret: An Insider's History (2nd edition) by John Loftus

Belarus

The book is a revised edition of a book Loftus originally published in 1982 as The Belarus Secret. Belarus is also known as Byelorussia, White Russia, and White Ruthenia. Its capital is Minsk. Belarus was partitioned between the Soviet Union and Poland by the Treaty of Riga (1921). Some Belarusians nationalists collaborated with the Nazi's during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II.

Office of Policy Coordination

In the aftermath of World War II, the United States decided to hire many Nazis and Nazi collaborators to help them combat the Bolsheviks. This was done by the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC), which was created in 1948, as a spy agency in the U.S. State Department. It was originally separate from the Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.) and the C.I.A. Frank Wisner became its executive director. The OPC hid the Nazi collaboration history of the Byelorussian Nazis it recruited from the rest of the U.S. government, even from the C.I.A. In 1951, the OPC was merged with the Central Intelligence Agency.

CIA Nazi Recruits:

• Reinhard Gehlen: A major German spy, who went to work for the C.I.A. during the Cold War. In 1961 it was revealed that one of his men, Heinz Felfe, was a Soviet mole.

• Friedrich Buchardt: A German spy who provided Western intelligence with much of its information regarding Nazi collaborators in eastern Europe, in exchange for clemency at the Nuremberg war crimes trials.

• Franz Kushel: Chief of the Nazi Byelorussian police that rounded up the Jews of the Minsk ghetto for execution. Later, SS (Schutzstaffel) General Kushel was commander of the Belarus Brigade, a Waffen SS unit, that fought against the Allies during World War II. He later became an American citizen.

• Mikolai Abramtchik: intelligence chief of the Byelorussian Central Council, who worked secretly with the Gestapo and the SS. He was recruited by MI6 after the War. Several of the Belarusian assets recruited with him were later found to be Soviet moles. Famous MI6 traitor Kim Philby, citing lack of funding, later transferred Abramtchik’s agents, including the Soviet moles, over to the OPC and Frank Wisner.

• Stanislaw Stankievich: mayor of Borissow and a member of Hitler’s Einsatzgruppen, who killed thousands of Jews. He was given American citizenship after World War II.

• Radoslaw Ostrowsky: president of the Belarusian Central Rada, a puppet Belarusian government under German administration in 1943-1944, who later went to work for Gehlen after Gehlen had joined American intelligence following World War II.

• Emanuel Jasiuk: mayor of Kletsk, killed thousands of Jews. He retired to New Jersey as an American citizen.