Kevin Conley Ruffner

“ In addition to the thousands of feet of records already declassified by CIA, the Agency has released hundreds of thousands of pages of World War Thera records under the auspices of the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act in 2000. This act has also brought forth a deluge of personal dossiers from the Army's Investigative Records Repository at Fort Meade, Maryland. Probably no country in the world, and certainly no intelligence service, has released to the public as much information about intelligence activities during the Second World War as the United States. ”

“ Ryan is convinced that loose enforcement of US laws, such as the Displaced Persons Act of 1950, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, and the Refugee Relief Act of 1953 permitted far greater numbers of Nazi war criminals and collaborators to enter the United States through legal means than any covert US intelligence project. ”

“ Distrustful of the Agency, many American politicians have demanded the release of all CIA records dealing with Nazis and their collaborators. (U)
The Nazi war criminal investigations are now the longest-running examination in the CIA's history. Decades after the end of World War II, controversies about the Agency's role linger. Most, but not all, of the records of the Office of Strategic Services and the Strategic Services Unit have been declassified and released to the National Archives. The US Government, however, retains control of countless other records from the early Cold War period. ”

“ The study recounts the Agency's long involvement with Nazis - first as an enemy in World War II, then as a quasi-ally in the Cold War, and finally as the subjects of criminal investigations and prosecutions by Federal officials. [1] (U)
As a secret, intelligence agency in an open democratic society, historians, journalists, and politicians have long suspected the Central Intelligence Agency of maintaining clandestine relations with Nazis and non-Germans who aided the Third Reich. ”

“ Kevin Conley Ruffner
↑ The Charter and Judgment of the Nuremberg Tribunal, adopted by the United Nations in 1950 as General Assembly Resolution 95, defined crimes under international law as crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The Nuremberg International Military Tribunal also charged German defendants with conspiracy. Those who served in the Schutzstaffeln, or SS, were accused of membership in a criminal organization. ”

“ The Headquarters 201 file is the official file containing all biographic reporting on and references to the individual such as personal history, assessments, and plans for future use. DO Instruction [ ] , copy located in CIA History Staff files. The Office of Security, likewise, maintains its own, separate file system on individuals of interest to the CIA. (S) ↑ For further details, see Kevin C. Ruffner, "Record Group 226 at the National Archives," Center for the Study of Intelligence Newsletter (Summer 1996) , pp. 3-4 ”