US Intelligence and the Nazis - Brietman, Goda, Naftali and Wolfe, "published by the National Archives Trust Fund for the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group, discusses hundreds of the 8 million-plus pages of documents released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act by the CIA, FBI, NSA, Army, State Department, and other U.S. agencies. This book contains a great deal of new information about the world of intelligence, especially concerning the postwar use of war criminals by U.S. intelligence organizations. It also sheds new light on Holocaust issues, showing, for example that the Allies had knowledge of the genocide earlier than historians previously believed. By using these newly released documents to refine what was previously understood about World War II, the Holocaust, and intelligence activities during and after the war, the authors demonstrate the historical, cultural, and moral importance of the declassified information. Purchasing information: Call 1-866-272-6272, National Archives Trust Fund Board. 488 pp., 30 illus. Softcover #200120 $24.95 ISBN: 1-880875-26-8" The Hidden History of CIA Torture: America's Road to Abu Ghraib By Alfred W. McCoy TomDispath.com 9/9/04 "From 1950 to 1962, the CIA conducted massive, secret research into coercion and the malleability of human consciousness which, by the late fifties, was costing a billion dollars a year. Many Americans have heard about the most outlandish and least successful aspect of this research - the testing of LSD on unsuspecting subjects. While these CIA drug experiments led nowhere and the testing of electric shock as a technique led only to lawsuits, research into sensory deprivation proved fruitful indeed. In fact, this research produced a new psychological rather than physical method of torture, perhaps best described as "no-touch" torture. The Agency's discovery was a counterintuitive breakthrough, the first real revolution in this cruel science since the seventeenth century - and thanks to recent revelations from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, we are now all too familiar with these methods, even if many Americans still have no idea of their history. Upon careful examination, those photographs of nude bodies expose the CIA's most basic torture techniques - stress positions, sensory deprivation, and sexual humiliation." _http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1795_ (http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1795)
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