Declassified United States documents show that in the years following World War 2, the CIA employed Nazis to work as Cold War spies.

Declassified United States documents show that in the years following World War II, the CIA and FBI reportedly employed Nazis as Cold War spies.

Scholars who’ve analyzed the records say that there were likely no less than a thousand of them.

Those recruited by the CIA included individuals high up in Hitler’s ranks, such as Otto von Bolschwing, reportedly a policy-writer on the treatment and torture of Jews.

Von Bolschwing also assisted in devising the ‘Final Solution’, the plan that called for the genocide of the Jewish people.

In exchange for information, the SS officer and his family were relocated to New York City.

The papers outlining the agreement between the CIA and the war criminal stated the new American life was, “a reward for his loyal postwar service and in view of the innocuousness of his Nazi party activities.”

There’s also evidence that the CIA intervened when another of their relocated recruits, Aleksandras Lileikis, was facing deportation.

When Lileikis was sent away despite their attempts, the agency denied that they knew of the man’s level of Nazi involvement.

Records show that they did, in fact, long suspect him of being linked to the massacre of tens of thousands of Jews in Lithuania.