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Review: 'The Nazis Next Door' by Eric Lichtblau
Review: 'The Nazis Next Door' by Eric Lichtblau

It is no longer a revelation that U.S. intelligence services and other government agencies allowed thousands of Nazis, from rocket scientists to concentration camp guards, to stream into this country after World War II. Richard Rashke's excellent 2013 book, "Useful Enemies," added to our picture of how SS officers were given a free pass for past crimes to further America's Cold War dominance. Eric Lichtblau's "The Nazis Next Door" makes the point that these recruits often made pathetically bad spies. Nevertheless, the CIA and FBI protected their assets, and the agencies' own secrets, for decades, resisting inquiries from both reporters and Justice...