Reply #9: it would appear you are pretty ignorant [View All]

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about what intelligence agencies are supposed to do.

>>The CIA doesn't even have the authority to make arrests<<

Did you sleep through the last decade? The CIA captured and abducted quite a few people in recent years, and not just to put them on trial, they saw to it that the abductees were tortured and kept in secret prisons.

During the time in question, up until the mid seventies "the system of executive command control was so ambiguous that it is difficult to be certain at what levels assassination activity was known and authorized" (not to mention "arrests"). http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/ir/html/ChurchIR_0010b.htm

Since neither the CIA nor the BND were going to provide their local law enforcement agencies with the information they held on Eichmann, they could have quietly turned it over to the Isrealis who were trying to get him. But they didn't. The glaring question here is: why the hell not? Even after 50 years, the BND is fighting the request to open these files.

A German historian labelled the discovery a "sensation" because we now have proof that German intelligence knew - 6 years earlier than had been assumed - where and under what name Eichmann was hiding. The BND didn't disclose this information because they didn't want it publicly known that they helped Eichmann to escape and would probably have continued to do so had it not been for admirable and circumspect individuals like Fritz Bauer, the German attorney general who tipped of the Israelis. (He is also known for bringing about the Auschwitz trials in the sixties.) He had gotten the information from a former fellow concentration-camp inmate and carefully avoided to share it with any German official because he knew who he was up against.

Some Americans may not find this worth mentioning, but who cares, they probably know nothing about post-war Germany anyway.