:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 2.07.2005 ::
:: "Uncle Sam & the Swastika" ::
CIA ties to ex-Nazis in spotlight
From Reuters UK
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON - A U.S. senator has demanded that the CIA director release thousands of pages of documents detailing the agency's ties with former Nazis who aided in Cold War espionage against the Soviet Union, officials said.
Sen. Mike DeWine of Ohio, Republican co-author of a 1998 bill ordering the disclosure of government records on Nazi war criminals, wants CIA Director Porter Goss to say publicly why his agency has not agreed to divulge the records.
DeWine has asked Goss to appear this month at an open hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on which the Ohio lawmaker sits, a Senate aide said. The CIA had no immediate comment on the invitation.
Read the story here.
ALSO
CIA agrees to release records detailing ties to former Nazis
Douglas Jehl, New York Times
via San Francisco Chronicle
... the CIA explicitly pledged for the first time to "acknowledge any relationship" between the CIA and SS members, regardless of whether there was any information specifically tying them to war crimes. The message said the CIA had also agreed that documents "concerning acts performed by Nazi war criminals, to include members of the SS, on behalf of CIA" are relevant and are subject to disclosure under the law.
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