The Nixon-Bush Nazi Connection

By Mark Aarons and John Loftus When Truman was reelected in

1948, Nixon became Allen Dulles’

R
ichard Nixon’s political career
mouthpiece in Congress. Both Nixon
began in 1945, when as a
and Senator Joseph McCarthy received
navy officer he was assigned to
volumes of classified information to
review some captured Nazi documents.
support the charge that the Truman ad-
Allen Dulles told Nixon to keep quiet
ministration was filled with “pinkos.”
about what he had seen and, in return,
When McCarthy went too far in his
arranged to finance the young man’s
Communist investigations, it was
first congressional campaign.
Nixon who worked with CIA director
The documents that Dulles was
Bedell Smith, to steer investigations
eager to cover up concerned Karl
away from the intelligence community.
Blessing, the former Reichsbank of-
The CIA was grateful for
ficer and then head of the Nazi oil car-
Nixon’s assistance. Dulles had been
tel called Kontinentale 01 AG, or
recruiting Nazis under the cover of the home in the U.S., where they re-estab-
“Konti.” Konti was in partnership
State Department’s Office of Policy lished their networks.
with Allen and John Foster Dulles’
Coordination, whose chief, Frank In 1968, Nixon promised that
principal Nazi client, I.G. Farben, the
Wisner, had systematically recruited if he became president, he would cre-
infamous chemical/weapons producer.
the Eastern European émigré networks ate a permanent ethnic council within
Both companies had despicable records
that had worked for the Nazi SS. [Edi- the Republican Party. Previously the
regarding their complicity with the Na-
tor’s Note: Since WWII, these Nazi Ethnic Division was allowed to sur-
zis and their ill treatment of Jews dur-
émigrés have been instrumental in face only during presidential cam-
ing the Holocaust.
many U.S. government covert opera- paigns. Nixon’s promise was carried
Dulles was also covering up for
tions including drug and weapons out after the 1972 election, during
Blessing in order to protect continued
smuggling, Latin American death George H.W. Bush’s tenure as chair-
control of German oil interests in the
squads and protofascist regimes, LSD man of the Republican National Com-
Middle East. Blessing’s Konti was the
mind control experiments (like mittee. The Croatian Ustashis, along
Nazi link to King Ibn Saud [whose
MKULTRA), the Republican National with several other Fascist organiza-
family was empowered to rule the Ara-
Committee’s Ethnic Heritage Councils tions, became an integral part of the
bian peninsula thanks to Nazi collabo-
as well as the presidential campaigns campaign structure of Republican poli-
rators within British and U.S. intelli-
of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and tics. When Nixon was forced to resign
gence] and Aramco (the Arab-Ameri-
George H.W. Bush.] as a result of the Watergate scandal,
can Oil Co.). If Blessing went down,
Once in the U.S., the Nazi Bush was transferred from his post as
he could have taken a lot of people with
émigré’s quickly set to work to get out head of the Republican National Com-
him, including Allen Dulles.
the “ethnic” vote for the Republicans. mittee to director of the CIA to ensure
The Dulles brothers took Nixon
In preparation for the 1952 Eisen- that Nixon’s garbage remained buried.
under their wing and escorted him on
hower-Nixon campaign, the Republi- Keeping the lid on the Nazi
a tour of fascist, “freedom fighter” op-
cans formed an Ethnic Division, which scandal was no easy matter. As direc-
erations in Germany.
recruited the “displaced fascists” who tor of the CIA from December 1975 to
had arrived after WWII. The Ethnic January 1977, Bush was up to his ears
John Loftus (See pages 14 and 25.)
Division attracted a significant number in fascists. In 1976, after 23 years in
Mark Aarons is a former Australian ra- of Central and Eastern European Na- the White House, the Republicans is-
dio producer whose 1986 series “Nazis in zis, who had been recruited by the SS sued a secret memo that recognized the
Australia” led to that country’s modern War
as political and police leaders during valuable contribution made by the Eth-
Crimes legislation and a Special Investi-
the Holocaust. These fascist émigrés nic Division of the party over the years,
gations Unit to gather evidence against
suspected Nazi war criminals. He is the supported the Eisenhower-Nixon “lib- especially in defeating the Democrats
author of War Criminals Welcome: Aus- eration” policy as the quickest means in 1952. The irony is that the ethnic
tralia, A Sanctuary for Fugitive War Crimi- of trying to get back into power in their fascists never played a credible role in
nals since 1945 (Black Inc., 2001), Sanc- former homelands. winning any election and, in later
tuary: Nazi fugitives in Australia (W. In 1953, when the Republicans years, caused the Republican party
Heinemann Australia, 1989), and co-au- were in office, the immigration laws considerable embarrassment when
thor (with Robert Domm) of East Timor: were changed to admit Nazis, even pieces of the Nazi connection began
A Western made Tragedy (Left Book Club,
members of the SS. They flooded into to surface.
1992). He co-authored (with John Loftus)
the U.S. Nixon oversaw the new im-
Ratlines: How the Vatican’s Nazi Networks Source: Excerpts, The Secret War
Betrayed Western Intelligence to the Sovi- migration program. As vice president,
he received Eastern European fascists Against the Jews: How Western Espio-
ets (W. Heinemann, 1991) and Unholy
Trinity: The Vatican, the Nazis and the in the White House. After a long, long nage Betrayed the Jewish People (New
Swiss Banks (St. Martins Press, 1993). journey, these Nazis had found a new York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1994).

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