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Tendler, Professor of Biology, Professor of Talmud For reservations and information, call 552-9690 t of Waffen SS), ODESSA lied in the SS plans for the (Organization der post-war struggles Entlassene SS Angehorige against "world Jewry" — Organization of Kin of and in behalf of fascism. the SS) and die Spinne (The Barbie of course Spider). supplemented Skor- Their first object was to zeny's own talents with rescue and help to escape his expertise in savage SS, SA, Gestapo and Ein- torture and elaborate satzgruppen personnel who brain-washing, including were all under the auto- the use of mind-altering matic arrest category of the drugs to force confes- Allies who presumably sions. were intent on tracking Skorzeny was, amaz- down Nazi war criminals. ingly, acquitted of war For example, an crimes charges by an OMGUS (Office of Mili- American war crimes tri- tary Government for bunal held at the Dachau Germany, U.S.) stated in KZ. He escaped in 1948. a "secret" memo dated At the same time, Klaus Feb. 1, 1947, that the Barbie, from the same SS "Quadripartite Intelli- detention pens at gence Committee" (com- Darmstadt, was released for posed of the French, secret utilization by the British, Soviet and American CIC. Years later American victors) in published interviews, needed information on Skorzeny detailed how both ODESSA. the CIC and the CIA had The 1947 secret report "arranged" for his escape. said, however, that the Al- He further claimed that he lied combined intelligence had already been recruited group had been shown only by U.S. intelligence while "restricted" materials on undergoing his trial as a ODESSA and denied "the war criminal: (higher classified) remain- Once on the outside, der of the document . . . on Skorzeny galvanized The (that and other) subversive Spider. He boasted that his organizations uncovered by group — with the assistance U.S. intelligence of American intelligence authorities." - and West German indus- ODESSA was described trialists and bankers — "re- as "active in uniting all SS scued" more than 500 into a nationwide resistance wanted Nazi criminals, organization" seeking the among them Klaus Barbie. rescue of imprisoned SS As has already been leaders. documented, Barbie also Among the names men- enjoyed the assistance of the tioned in this hidden CIC, the Vatican and the In- assessment and on sub- ternational Red Cross. sequent documents were * * * Klaus Barbie and Otto Barbie Part of Skorzeny, both in the cus- Spider Network tody of the United States. Once in Spain in late 1950 The most effective or early 1951, Barbie re- group was die Spinne (The Spider). The other ported to his commanding organizations faded from officer, Otto Skorzeny, at the scene by the late the offices of the latter's 1940s. The Spider was "consultancy" in Madrid. operational until the late (Skorzeny was the secret 1950s, some observers agent of VOEST, the United contend beyond that date Austrian Iron and Steel Works, with offices in Latin up until today. America. Besides Barbie, The Spider was conceived such well-known Nazis as in the Darmstadt prison for the financier Hjlamar high-ranking SS officers Schacht, the banker Her- and controlled .by the mann Abs, Rheinhard United States. Its creator Gehlen, former German in- was Lt. Colonel telligence chief on the Rus- (Obersturmbannfuehrer) sian Front and head of the Otto "Scarface" Skorzeny. CIA-directed Gehlen Org in The imposing 6'4" Austrian West Germany, were fre- Nazi — who gained fame as quent visitors to Skorzeny's the daring rescuer of Musso- Spinne headquarters.) lini off a mountain shelf in Barbie — always a thiev- Italy in 1943 — was Adolf ing, ruthless gangster at the Hitler's favorite terrorist. center of drug, arms and He had carried out in- currency deals — was also a numerable terrorist bomb- disciplined Gestapo officer ings, kidnappings, hijack- and a fanatic Nazi. ings, sabotage and evasion Before leaving for Latin commandos as well as selec- America, Barbie was given tive political assassina- his orders, a list of key Nazi tions. war criminals to contact in Skorzeny led a group of both low and high places SS killers in a parachute and directed, by die Spinne, drop behind American lines to contribute to the Western during the Battle of the Hemisphere "beachheads" Bulge. In violation of all the of fascist "force" and "influ- rules of warfare, Skorzeny's ence spheres" — as the lan- men, dressed in U.S. uni- guage of "The Madrid Let- forms, murdered many GIs. ter (a Spinne underground Besides causing havoc in publication) stated in early the rear, Skorzeny intended 1951. to murder the American He quickly established military commander, Gen- a working relationship eral Dwight D. Eisenhower. with some of the promi- Skorzeny and Klaus nent killers of the Barbie were closely al- Holocaust, alive and well in Latin America. Barbie was picked up from U.S. Army intelli- gence (CIC) in 1948 and used by the CIA as a "con- tract agent" for nearly three decades. (According to ABC-TV News network on Friday, Nov. 11, one Robert Wilson, a' self-admitted interna- tional jewel thief, knew Barbie in Bolivia. Wilson alleged that Barbie "freely confessed" his war crimes as well as his involvement with the CIA. According to Wilson, Barbie claims he vi- sited such American cities as New Orleans, Miami and San Francisco during the course of his work with the CIA. Barbie traveled freely on a Bolivian diplomatic passport. The CIA refused comment.) During the same period he allegedly contracted work with the CIA, Barbie — acting at the strategic di- rection of die Spinne — was also a "consultant" to Latin American military dic- tatorships enjoying the support of the United States. In that capacity, Barbie advised those repressive regimes on the use of "death squads" and other forms of political terror. Arriving in Bolivia in May 1951, Barbie found a most accommodating at- mosphere in which to carry out his work. For years the Bolivian economy had been dominated by German in- vestment interests and the large German colony there. As far back as the 1920s, officers of the German Gen- eral Staff trained Bolivian armies. Ernst Roehm — the Nazi putschist, German Army officer and later commander of Hitler's SA (storm Troops) — is an example of such Nazi influence. (Roehm was murdered in 1934 when Hitler purged the SA in favor of an ascen- dent SS.) * * Latin Tactics Linked to Nazis .Barbie, according to my own sources, quickly or- ganized "coordinated" ac- tivities with the large Nazi concentrations in Argen- tina, Brazil, Chile and Paraguay, where fascist military dictatorships reigned. In Bolivia, Barbie trained a secret police force and na- tional police along the lines of the Gestapo he ran in France during the Holocaust. He was granted Boli- vian citizenship in 1957. His name was linked to several notorious politi- cal killings in 1964, 1972 and 1976. Barbie enjoyed the full backing of the government of Colonel Hugo Banzer Suarez, which in the 1970s blocked all attempts to extradite Barbie for his war crimes in Europe. Col. Banzer provided Barbie with a uniformed (Continued on Page 29)