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(who worked for Radio Free Europe until his retirement), all of them
prominent Nazi gangsters who had been involved in horrifying
massacres of Jews and others on the Eastern front. There were problems
in employing Dr. Six, who was on trial for war crimes at Nuremberg, but
his sentence was quickly commuted by High Commissioner John J.
McCloy and he went to work for Gehlen, with special responsibility for
developing a “secret army” under US auspices, with instruction and
guidance by US, former Waffen-SS and Wehrmacht specialists, to be
parachuted into the Soviet Union to make contact with forces left behind
there by the Nazis after the German retreat. The operation was carried
out, but without success, since the organization had been penetrated by
Soviet agents.
According to John Loftus, who investigated these matters for the US
Justice Department, these “rollback” operations were advocated by the
Dulles brothers, Nelson Rockefeller, and George Kennan, among others,
and run from Kennan’s office under the direction of Frank Wisner, whose
goal was to continue “the fight against communism by recruiting
guerrilla bands of former SS men” in accord with State Department
plans “to overthrow the governments of several Eastern European
countries.” Wisner also planned to have these SS underground armies
help overthrow the Soviet regime from within, operating within the
USSR in Byelorus.sia and the Ukraine as well as Eastern Europe. In
1949, the CIA initiated a three-year program to establish a network of
active resistance movements behind Soviet lines, and US aircraft
stripped of identifying marks dropped CIA-trained Ukrainian operatives
to join a partisan army, formerly encouraged by Hitler, which was
fighting in the Carpathian mountains, along with hundreds of other
agents and military supplies. These efforts continued at least until the
early 1950s. The “rollback strategy” was made official in NSC 68, just
prior to the Korean war, which urged a vast US military buildup and