About the Book
This is a 760 page reproduction of preserved, declassified reference documents, from archives, created by the Central Intelligence Agency and published in the Second Release of Name Files Under the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Disclosure Acts, ca. 1981 - ca. 2002. The documents in this volume are focused on the CIA's investigation of Adolf Hitler and include analysis of his behavior, speech patterns, education, historical background, medical reports, and various activities that were conducted. This series consists of biographies, correspondence, reports, memorandums, messages, telegrams, routing slips, publications, dispatches, translations, transcripts, legislative records, legal documents, statements, lists, abstracts, excerpts, clippings, medical records, vouchers, outlines, and other records. Most of the materials relate to people in one, or both, of two categories: Axis personnel accused of committing war crimes, or of belonging to criminal organizations, during World War II; and former Axis personnel who were used by the U.S. or West Germany as intelligence sources during the Cold War. The series also includes files relating to people who were never accused of war crimes or of belonging to criminal organizations, but who may have been associated with war crimes as victims, witnesses, investigators, sources, or officials. Most of the records relate to the activities that brought the people to the attention or employ of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or the West German Federal Intelligence Service (the Bundesnachrichtendienst or BND). The records provide details about the relationship between the CIA and the BND; Nazi and Soviet Union intelligence operations; CIA and BND intelligence operations aimed at Albania, Austria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Latvia, Slovakia, and the Soviet Union; Communist, anti-Communist, and nationalist movements in Albania, Byelorussia, Estonia, Latvia, and Slovakia; the activities of Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Czechoslovakian, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, and Yugoslavian émigré communities in the U.S. and other countries; political and economic developments in Austria and West Germany; political developments in the Middle East; policies and personnel of the Vatican; prisoner exchanges between East Germany and West Germany; inter-party rivalries, ultranationalist movements, and public debates about rearmament and civilian use of atomic energy in Japan; CIA policies for recruiting, paying, debriefing, evaluating, dismissing, and compensating the heirs of, foreign personnel used as intelligence sources; and how the CIA responded when it learned of, or was forced to confront, the criminal pasts of some of its agents and sources.
