Nazi War Crimes Intelligence Agencies And Selective Legal Accountability.

Nazi War Crimes, US Intelligence and Selective Prosecution at Nurembergprovides a balanced but critical discussion of the contribution of American intelligence officials to the Nuremberg war crimes trials process. It discusses the role of such officials in mobilizing the unique resources of a modern intelligence agency in order to provide a range of important trial evidence and undertake controversial plea-bargaing negotiations. This book also reviews recently declassified US intelligence documents to provide new details of how senior Nazi war criminals, such as SS General Karl Wolff, were provided with effective immunity deals, partly as a reward for their wartime cooperation with US intelligence officials, including Allen Dulles, former CIA Director. This historical case study suggests that both war crimes prosecutors and intelligence officials can engage in mutually benefificial colloborations. The proviso, Michael Salter argues, is that both sides need to recognise and appreciate the problems that may arise from the fact that these institutitions are required to operate according to different, and in some cases contradictory, agendas.Salter Michael is the author of 'Nazi War Crimes Intelligence Agencies And Selective Legal Accountability.', published 2007 under ISBN 9781904385813 and ISBN 1904385818.