My name is John Loftus. I am a former federal prosecutor with CIA clearances. Back in 1982 my expose with Mike Wallace on Nazi war criminals working for CIA won the Emmy award. I am so pleased with the recent 60 Minutes show on the Bad Arolsen Holocaust files, but there is another story, perhaps more important, explaining why the ITS archives have not been released for the last sixty years.

       Near the end of WWII, the SS established the Alt Aussee concentration camp for Jewish artists and engravers. It was not an art colony, only a death sentence. The Jews' job at Alt Ausee explains why they had to die, They Jewish prisoners gave Nazi war criminals real Jewish identities to escape trial in post-war Europe (plus a packet of forged US and British currency to start a life in another country). Sadly, in many cases, the fugitive Nazis were recruited by Kim Philby of British Intelligence, and to a later (and lesser) extent by Allen Dulles of US intelligence.

       The ITS was alerted by Allen Dulles of US intelligence NOT to release its Bad Arolsen files as many of the dead Jewish victims would show up as "alive" in allied countries. To avoid exposing the Alt Ausee operation, the Americans (and the British) asked the German government to sit on the Bad Arolsen files until the Nazis had died of old age.

       So, the release of the Bad Arolsen archives in 2007 was not another victory for the truth of the Holocaust, but may have been the last defeat of the Allied soldiers who fought WWII. What a betrayal is there. All shame on those who hid the truth.

John Loftus
President, IntelligenceSummit.org