• Anarcho-Bolshevik
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    1 year ago

    G‐d, what a fucking mess. Okay, so first off, the troublemaker responsible for publishing this is somebody called Bodo Hechelhammer, whose Wikipedia article says that he ‘confirmed for the first time on behalf of the BND that the Nazi war criminal Walther Rauff was a BND source from 1958 to 1962 and published all of the BND documents’, and has three citations to back that up. Sound pretty exciting? It gets even better: from 1956 to 1968 the president of the BND was none other than Reinhard…fucking…Gehlen…and if you don’t know the significance of that, read Christopher Simpson’s Blowback (specifically ch. 5):

    According to Cox, the Gehlen Organization was the primary source of intelligence that claimed that “the Soviets were about to attack [West] Germany. . . . [That was] the biggest bunch of baloney then, and it is still a bunch of baloney today.”

    Basically, a war hawk and former Axis official who repeatedly tried to bullshit people into starting a sequel to Operation Barbarossa (and some have gone so far as to blame him for the Cold War). As Hechelhammer’s paper itself says:

    Furthermore, then BND President Reinhard Gehlen was personally interested in the developments in Cuba. In the late fifties, in light of the growing threat Cuba represented to the United States, and again in 1960/61, he reportedly held the opinion that the United States should respond with a preemptive military attack. His advice for the United States was „to swiftly annex this dangerous communist stronghold that serves also as perfect platform for Latin America‘s communist infiltration […]“ Gehlen dismissed concerns that a US military action against Cuba might trigger a third Word War.

    And, just to top off this game of telephone, I couldn’t find any corroborating sources about the Republic of Cuba knowingly recruiting Ernst-Wilhelm Springer, Otto Ernst Remer, or anybody else who worked for the Schutzstaffel, which means that we probably have no option but to take the BND’s word for this. Fun!

    So, what do you think? Does this sound trustworthy enough to you? You tell me.

  • @Mzuark
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    91 year ago

    They’re stealing our meme

  • @illume
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    71 year ago

    I found the article here that essentially claims that “German intelligence” found out that Cuba brought two(2) former SS guys over to Havana and had them help train them, and also bought weapons from them?

    Not that “German intelligence” is remotely trustworthy anyway, but I wonder how many former SS nazis other countries used for their “objectives”. Surely not the United States or West Germany, right? No, those wholesome democratic countries would never :)