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(www.worldjewishcongress.org, 07 June , 2006)
CIA and West Germany knew where Adolf Eichmann was in the 1950s
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The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) kept quiet about the whereabouts of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the 1950s
for fear he might expose undercover anti-Communist efforts in West Germany,
US documents released on Tuesday show.

...Eichmann was not the only prominent war criminal to benefit from the CIA's inaction.
In 1983, Washington admitted that
US Army intelligence officers helped the Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyons", flee to Bolivia and escape prosecution by France after the war.
A government report at the time admitted that
the officers "interfered with the lawful and proper administration of justice"
by protecting him after he had been recruited as an anti-Communist spy.

Germany's attitude at the time was also criticized.
University of Virginia historian Timothy Naftali, the director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, said at
a news conference in Washington:
"Newly released CIA materials suggest that in the highest levels of the [West German] government,
there was concern about what Eichmann could say if caught about those close to the Chancellor [Konrad Adenauer]."