America's Nazi Secret: An Insider's History (45 page)

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Letter of January 13,1977 from Joshua Eilberg, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and International Law (Committee on the Judiciary), to Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller of the General Accounting Office.

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Letter of April 7, 1978, from the GAO to Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, with enclosed lists of names. Kushel was number 45 on the list.

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Jasiuk‘s “blue file” “XE8423082” was readily located in April 1980 at the USAIRR in Ft. Meade, Maryland. The entire dossier (blue file) is still stored in the vault at Ft. Meade.

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Letter of April 17, 1978, from Department of the Army, Military Intelligence-Counter-Intelligence Section (DAMIKIS) to USAIRR, Fort Meade, Maryland, requested the Army to check their files for persons listed on the GAO request. Both agencies had access to the Defense Investigative Service’s computerized index.

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Title 18, Section 1505 of the United States Code makes it a crime to obstruct a congressional inquiry:

Whoever corruptly … influences, obstructs or impedes or endeavors to influence, obstruct or impede the due and proper administration of the law under which such proceeding is being had before such department or agency of the United States, or the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which such inquiry or investigation is being had by either House, or any joint Committee of the Congress….

… shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years or both.

Similarly, Title 18, Section 371 makes it a felony to conspire to defraud the United States, and Title 18, Section 4 (misprision of felony) punishes those who knowingly keep silent on crimes that have been committed against the federal government.

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Copies of the pertinent correspondence are located both in the GAO investigation records and in the files of the Army Special Actions Officer, USAIRR, Ft. Meade, Maryland.

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The sanitized Kushel file is listed as File No. AC645873, USAIRR, Ft. Meade, Maryland.

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One comment in the sanitized report for Kushel is that “President Abramtchik of the Belo-Russian Rada, who is also president of the Paris Bloc, is now staying with General Kushel.” One of the interesting but unanswered questions raised by this document is how Abramtchik managed to get a visa to visit the United States in the first place. Abramtchik has an immigration file, but there is no visa in it. There is, however, a letter from an intelligence officer to the Canadian border guards.

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File No. XE198433-1181045, classified FOUO (For Official Use Only) for “Kusiel, Franciszek,” was readily retrieved by the staff at Ft. Meade, even though that particular spelling of the name was not requested during a subsequent OSI investigation.

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The CIC file for “Kusiel, Franciszek,” File XE198433-1181045, contains index cards showing that Kushel controlled the White Ruthenians veterans league and was a leading figure in the German SD. Another index card indicates that he was an SS officer in “Siegling’s Division” (subsequently identified as the 30th Waffen-SS Division).

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The file for Kushel, Francisek, No. 152 628 (USAIRR, Ft. Meade, Maryland), contains a photocopy of Kushel’s 1947 CIC index card indicating that he was a member of the Byelorussian Central Council and that further references can be found on secret list 700-4. The index card naming Kushel as the leader of the Michelsdorf DP camp is in this file, along with various Top Secret document replacement sheets indicating that even more sensitive documents had once belonged to the file but now could no longer be located. The Army has no idea what happened to the missing documents.

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Among the general subject matter files relating to the Byelorussians at Ft. Meade are the following: “White Russian National Center,” “White Ruthenian BNC,” “Association of White Russian Veterans,” “White Ruthenian Student Organization,” “Sakavir Monthly Papers” (March), “Bakauscyna Newspaper” (Fatherland), “White Ruthenian DP Group,” “White Ruthenian Propaganda,” “BNR White Ruthenian National Public,” “White Ruthenian Committee,” “White Ruthenian National Committee.”

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An interesting thing about the sanitized Kushel file was that it was kept in the Top Secret vault at Ft. Meade, although all Top Secret information in it had been removed from it, and all his other dossiers. There were no sign-out sheets indicating who had taken the Top Secret information. Moreover, there was no record of the dossier ever being signed out of the vault. Even the punch-card index for Kushel’s file was missing. Apparently, whoever went to the trouble to create the sanitized file for Kushel went to extreme steps to insure that it could not be readily located.

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Jasiuk’s CIC dossier No. X847230A2 also contains copies of the CIC report of Jasiuk‘s connection with Air Force Counterintelligence. These documents were among those forwarded to J. Edgar Hoover by General Weckerling, along with allegations that CIC informants had conclusively established that Jasiuk was a war criminal who was:

…well known for his cruelty and persecution of the Polish populace in the area and was responsible for sending many persons to forced labor in Germany. In 1942, during the liquidation of the Polish intelligentsia, subject submitted a list of certain residents of Nieswicz and other cities to the Sicherheits Dienst (German secret service) in Baranowicz, and as a result a number of these persons were shot.

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According to a note on the reverse of the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s background investigation form, in 1975 the CIC reported that it had at least two dossiers for Jasiuk, one of which was missing, but the available dossier represented “possible derogatory information learned about subject after he had departed to the US.” The information was not shown to the GAO.

Epilogue

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Ostrowsky’s immigration file number is A12866178, C9098434. He received his American citizenship in Michigan in 1972.

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The FBI was aware of illegal immigration in some cases even before it occurred. See, for example, FBI File NY97-1251. “The president of this organization, informant said, is R. Ostrowsky who lives in Argentina and expects to come to the United States in the near future.” This file, and others, are replete with information that Ostrowsky was the president of the Nazi government in Byelorussia during the German occupation.

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Top Secret files, Emanuel Jasiuk, USAIRR, Ft. Meade, Md.

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Mosley, op. cit., p. 275.

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Senator Saltonstall’s statement has been described as the so-called “want to know” principle. Corson, op. cit., p. 306, citing U.S. Congress Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, First Report (1976), p. 149.

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The Soviet Union continues to charge in its propaganda broadcasts that American intelligence is still secretly maintaining its financial support for the ex-Nazi émigré organizations. BBC “Summary of World Broadcasts,” December 20, 1979. My earlier assertions that the OPC used these same private organizations to launder funds come neither from Soviet sources nor from classified files. All that is necessary to identify the CIA conduits is to check publicly available lists for those organizations that contributed money to Radio Liberty from 1951 to 1971. Radio Liberty has since admitted that during this period 99.8 percent of its income came from the CIA. Monograph, “Radio Liberty–Basic Facts,” Library of Congress, P-134 SC (72) 53.

In spite of all that has happened, I remain convinced that an efficient intelligence service is essential to the defense of democracy. Somehow, Congress must strike a better balance between secrecy and supervision.

Documents
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Photographs

National Archives Box 16 of the CIA’s documents contains the files for Mykola Lebed, whom the CIA innocently believed to be a leader of the Anti Nazi resistance in the Ukraine. Justice Department Officials Richard Sullivan and Alan Ryan knew that Lebed was actually head of the Ukrainian version of the Gestapo, the SB, hired by CIA’s rivals in the State Department OPC, and sponsored for immigration by the Attorney General of the United States. Lebed’s SB ran an assassination program inside the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The Justice Department knowingly assisted the former Nazis of the SB with illegal entry into the United States.

Mykola Lebed’s CIA codename is QR/Plumb/2 (P/2) . Dick Sullivan is the Justice Department mole inside the CIA who tried to suppress any further investigation into Lebed’s past as one of the most wanted war criminals in the Soviet Union. To Sullivan’s dismay, his successors at Justice cut back the Lebed investigation, but did not stop it.

A CIA officer (who did not know of Lebed’s past as a war criminal) had discussions about closing down funding for Lebed’s Ukrainian propaganda business, codenamed QR/Plumb. Lebed complains that both Eisenhower and Bush have tried to cut him back before, and threatens “disastrous consequences.”

Three months after hearing that his Ukrainian propaganda organization might have its funding cut by the CIA, Lebed threatens the CIA officer with going public to reveal that the real mission of Lebed’s Prolog organization was to support Operation Redwood, for which many members spent 25 years in Soviet Prison Camps. The CIA officer clearly has no idea that Redwood was an assassination program run by CIA’s rival, OPC.