(New York Times) Douglas Jehl - The CIA is refusing to provide hundreds of thousands of pages of documents sought by a government working group under a 1998 law that requires full disclosure of classified records related to Nazi war criminals. A book, U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, that was released by the working group in May has shown that the American government worked closely with Nazi war criminals and collaborators, allowing many of them to live in the U.S. after World War II. Historians who have studied the documents made public so far have said that at least five associates of the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann, the architect of Hitler's campaign to exterminate Jews, had worked for the CIA, and that the CIA tried to recruit two dozen more war criminals or Nazi collaborators.
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