Washington D.C., March 24, 2005 - The CIA
was surprised by Israeli agents' capture of Nazi war criminal
Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960, and a subsequent CIA file
review uncovered extensive ties between Eichmann and men who served
as CIA assets and allies (like Franz Alfred Six and Otto Von Bolschwing),
according to the CIA's three-volume Directorate of Operations
file and their Directorate of Intelligence file on Eichmann, posted
today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
Obersturmbannführer (Lt. Col.) Eichmann was
originally a member of the SD (Sicherheitsdienst or Security Service),
and went on to head Gestapo Section IV B4 (responsible for Jewish
affairs) where he helped plan and implement the Holocaust. Eichmann
was captured at the end of World War II by allied forces, but
managed to escape the internment camp where he was confined in
1946. On May 2, 1960, Eichmann was apprehended by Israeli secret
agents in Argentina, where he had been hiding under an assumed
name, and smuggled back to Israel to stand trial for his crimes.
After a highly publicized trial in 1961, Eichmann was sentenced
to death and executed in 1962.
The CIA file on Eichmann includes a number of revelations,
including the lack of American intelligence on Eichmann's whereabouts
before his capture, as well as a lack of intelligence on the Israeli
operation to find and bring him to justice. The documents contained
in this names file reveal CIA surprise at the initial capture
of Eichmann in Argentina by Israeli agents. After news of the
capture surfaced, the Director of the CIA immediately requested
that CIA operatives with contacts in the Israeli intelligence
service, gather "all possible details" on the operation.
In one such interchange between a CIA agent and his Israeli counterpart
about the Eichmann capture, the undisclosed CIA agent notes "I
opened the conversation by asking him to transmit to [excised]
and [excised] congratulations on the final accomplishment of what
appeared to be a magnificent job and our desire to help in any
way possible. Although we felt sure that [excised] had much more
information on the men than we have, nevertheless, there may be
captured Nazi war documents in which he might be interested."
[Vol 1, document 49].
Later documents reveal CIA attempts to locate relevant
documents in German captured documents, files in the Berlin Document
Center in Germany, and other sources like the International Tracing
Service. To help strengthen the close ties between the CIA and
Israel's intelligence agencies, the Counterintelligence Staff
at the Directorate of Operations (headed by James Angleton) combed
through the archives and submitted for further research other
German officers' names that were mentioned in the Eichmann documents.
The consequence was the discovery that some of those linked to
Eichmann also had ties to the CIA and the CIA-sponsored West German
intelligence service (BND). (Note 1)
At the top of one of these lists of associated officer
names was Otto Von Bolschwing [Doc 7, Vol 2]. Bolschwing "had
been Eichmann's tutor on Zionism and the politics of Zionism in
the mid-1930s and then his ally in persecuting the Jews of Austria."
(Note 2) After the war, Bolschwing served as
an asset first for the Gehlen organization, and was then recruited
directly by the CIA for work in Austria. Despite his less than
stellar achievements as an asset, the CIA rewarded him for his
service by helping him obtain entry and citizenship in the United
States. In his essay from the IWG-sponsored anthology U.S.
Intelligence and the Nazis, University of Virginia
Professor and IWG historian Timothy Naftali details Bolschwing's
panic after discovering that Eichmann had been captured by the
Israelis. Naftali notes that he went so far as to contact one
of his former CIA handlers:
The retired U.S. intelligence officer, who
had only a superficial knowledge of Bolschwing's actual career
in the SS, could not understand his former employee's anxiety-it
was inconceivable that the Israelis would try to snatch Bolschwing
on U.S. soil-and so he turned to an acquaintance in the CIA's
Counterintelligence Staff to learn more about him. Once Bolschwing's
former case officer saw the captured German records found in
the torpedo factory, he was shaken, saying that neither he nor
others had known about Bolschwing's past, and asserting that
'we would not have used him at that time had we known about
it.' Some of what this intelligence officer did not remember
knowing had been known by others in the CIA from the moment
Bolschwing was hired. (Note 3)
The 289-document name file on Eichmann was compiled
by the CIA in response to the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act.
It is one of 788 name and subject files released to the Nazi
War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency
Working Group (IWG). The CIA name and subject files
total close to 60,000 pages, all of which are available to the
public at the National Archives and Record Administration at College
Park, Maryland. For a full list of names files and their release
dates, please refer to this
chart compiled by IWG staff. The names files are
unique because they contain post-war operational files from the
CIA which are normally exempt from review under the FOIA. (The
National Security Archive has previously posted names files on
Reinhard
Gehlen and Adolf
Hitler.)
This posting comes in the wake of the CIA's decision
to reassess its disclosure policy under the Nazi War Crimes act,
and review additional documents sought by the IWG. (Note
4) The CIA originally resisted efforts to broaden its narrow
interpretation of the act, but after a public outcry in late January
(Note 5), they reversed their decision. Richard
Ben-Veniste, another public member of the IWG, discussed the problems
of CIA declassification during his testimony before the Subcommittee
on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations
Committee on Government Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives
on March 2, 2005:
As one of three non-government members of
the IWG appointed by Clinton, I have had direct experience with
the difficulties of getting public release of records stamped
"secret." So far, over 8 million pages of previously
classified documents have been released. National security has
not been jeopardized. Yet, but for the Act, these records would
still be secret. Recently, despite the fact that relevant records
are in some cases more than 50 years old, the CIA balked at
full compliance, causing a delay of more than a year in the
IWG's work. Finally, to break the impasse, the IWG had to seek
Congressional intervention. The Act's authors, Sen. Mike DeWine
and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, rejected the CIA's argument for withholding
important documents in a meeting with IWG and CIA officials.
Ultimately, the CIA abandoned its opposition and has promised
to comply.
In a February interview with the New York Times,
Elizabeth Holtzman, one of the public members of the IWG, said
of the CIA's reversal:
This is great news. The C.I.A. will now follow
the rule of law, and the disclosure will be crucial to the American
public. I am very pleased.
The IWG was established in January 11, 1999 and has overseen
the declassification of about eight
million pages of documents from multiple government agencies.
Its original mandate was to expire at the end of March 2005, but
on March 14, 2005, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to
extend the deadline until March 2007 (a recommendation already
passed by the Senate on February 16, 2005.) The IWG is interested
in obtaining further information on any war criminals or suspected
war criminals, especially those with whom the CIA had relationships,
including information on the nature of the relationship and what
the individual did for the agency. The nature of the new requests
for information come from leads found in documents already released
by the CIA and other agencies, as well as research done by the
IWG historians.
The documents annexed in the CIA names file posted today by the
Archive span from the time of the war to the mid 1990s, and include
both captured German documents and documents from various U.S.
government agencies. As with all the CIA names and subject files,
only copies of the documents were released to NARA, not the original
documents. The names and subject files are artificial creations
made by the CIA for the purpose of obeying the Nazi War Crimes
Disclosure Act, while disguising how the CIA organizes its own
files. For a more detailed description of the Names Files and
the history of their compilation refer
to this notice.
Some of the highlights from the CIA name file on Eichmann include:
- May 24 and 26, 1960 documents revealing CIA surprise at the
capture of Eichmann, requesting more details from an Israeli
counterpart on the operation, and offering help in supplying
captured Nazi war documents (Documents 48 and
49, Vol 1) and a later June 15, 1960 document detailing
efforts to locate relevant material in the "five-miles"
of captured documents (Doc 13, Vol 2)
- Documents detailing the capture of Eichmann by Israel, including
specifics on how the Israeli agents determined and verified
Eichmann's identity. This included staking out his house in
Argentina on the day that would have been his 25th anniversary,
and observing him returning home with flowers and celebrating
the date with his wife. He had remarried his original wife under
an assumed name, and the agents surmised that that the wife
would not be celebrating the original date she married Eichmann,
unless it was Eichmann. Another document claims the Israelis
also brought in a man who had worked on a kibbutz with Eichmann,
who identified him and also engaged Eichmann in a conversation.
In the conversation, the man intentionally made several minor
mistakes about their past meetings, and Eichmann corrected every
one. (Documents 62 and 66 Vol 1, Documents
85 and 108 Vol 2)
- Attempts by the CIA in the wake of Eichmann's capture to gather
more information on names connected to Eichmann (Document 7
Vol 2). One CIA memo reveals the fear that incriminating information
on such individuals - including Franz Alfred Six (an SS Lt.
Col and Eichman's boss from 1936-39, and a section leader in
the post-war Gehlen
intelligence organization - would make them vulnerable
to Soviet recruitment (Document 23 Vol 2).
- An August 24, 1962 walk-in of a man claiming to be Eichmann's
son, who offered to help capture Josef Mengele in exchange for
a changed identity (Document 72 Vol 3).
The National Security Archive is one of the most active non-profit
FOIA requesters and won the prestigious George Polk Award in April
2000 for "piercing self-serving veils of government secrecy."
Documents
Note: Many of the following documents are in PDF
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NOTE: The following CIA names file on Adolf Eichman
has been split into separate pdf files for each separate document,
and they are organized exactly as they appear in the CIA names
file collection at NARA II, College Park. Please note that any
repetition of multiple documents and the use of large sections
of news clippings were kept intact to show the exact nature of
the CIA release. The IWG website has an html
index of the names files here and available here
is a complete pdf version of the finding aid.
Adolf
Eichmann Name File. Record Group 263. CIA Names Files. Boxes 14-15.
National Archives.
CIA
Names Files Notice
Directorate
of Intelligence File
Directorate
of Operations File - Volume 1
Directorate
of Operations File - Volume 2
Directorate
of Operations File - Volume 3
Directorate
of Intelligence File:
Document
1: "European Parliament Resolution on Human
Rights in Syria," September 19, 1991. U.S. Embassy (Brussels)
Cable. 3pp.
Document
2: "Senator Kennedy Letter to Ambassador on
Nazi War Criminal Alois Brunner," July 3, 1991. U.S. Embassy
(Damascus) Cable. 2pp.
Document
3: "GOY Press Statement on Waldheim; Reaction
to Commission Report," February 9, 1988. U.S. Embassy (Belgrade)
Cable. 7pp.
Document
4: "Nazi War Criminal Alois Brunner's Presence
in Damascus Hits the Papers Again," November 5, 1987. Department
of State Cable. 4pp.
Document
5: "Report That Wallenberg Is Still Alive,"
December 1, 1986. U.S. Embassy (Tel Aviv) Cable. 2pp.
Document
6: "US Archives on War Crimes - April 10 Update
on Waldheim and Related Cases," April 11, 1986. US Mission
to the UN (New York) Cable. 2pp.
Document
7: "Alois Brunner - Dead or Alive?" January
6, 1993. U.S. Embassy (Damascus) Cable. 3 pp.
Document
8: " 'Nazi Gold' in Austria: A New (Old) Story,"
December 2, 1996. U.S. Embassy (Vienna) Cable. 2pp.
Document
9: "SAO Request - Possible 212(A)(33) Ineligibility,"
April 16, 1993. U.S. Consulate (Frankfurt) Cable. 6pp.
Document
10: "Media Reaction: Vice President Quayle
in the Ghanaian Press," December 13, 1989. U.S. Embassy
(Accra) Cable. 5pp.
Document
11: "SAO Request - NIV," July 3, 1989.
Department of State Cable. 3pp.
Document
12: "212 (A)(33) Case," July 12, 1988.
Department of State Cable. 6pp.
Document
13: "Austrian Press Summary No. 126/88, For
07/11/88," July 11, 1988. U.S. Embassy (Vienna) Cable.
3pp.
Document
14: "German Media Reaction Report," February
27, 1986. U.S. Embassy (Bonn) Cable. 10pp.
Document
15: "Austrian Press Summary No. 53/83, for
3/18/83," March 18, 1983. U.S. Embassy (Vienna) Cable.
3pp.
Document
16: "Austrian Press Summary No. 53/83, for
3/18/83," March 18, 1983. U.S. Embassy (Vienna) Cable.
3pp.
Directorate
of Operations File - Volume 1:
Document
1: [Copy of Captured German Document], October
8, 1941. From Berlin. 1pg.
Document
2: [Copy of Captured German Document]. October
15, 1941. 1pg.
Document
3: ['Schnellbrief' and other Captured German Documents].
From Berlin. January 31, 1942 (and other dates). 42 pp.
Document
4: "Eichmann, Adolf/Lt.Col," June 30,
1944. Document Transfer. 1pg.
Document
5: [Captured SS Documents and Hand-Written Letter
Signed by Eichmann], September 21, 1944 and other dates. 26
pages.
Document
6: "SS Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann
- Chief of Group IV B 4 of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, the
So-Called Judenreferat," June 17, 1946. Report from Berlin.
3pp.
Document
7: "Eichmann, Adolf," July 11, 1945.
Subject File Extract. 2pp.
Document
8: "Security Arrest Report," February
13, 1947. CIC Army Report. 1 pg.
Document
9: "SD member Theodore Daennecker, Age 32,"
December 11, 1945. Third US Army Squad Truscott Message. 33pp.
Document
10: "Wislizeny, Dieter," August 1, 1946.
CIC Arrest Report. 16pp.
Document
11: "Eichmann, Adolf," November 19, 1946.
CIC Memorandum. 2pp.
Document
12: "Interrogation to Determine Whereabouts
of Eichmann, Otto Adolf," December 16, 1946. 2pp.
Document
13: "Daennecker, Theo," December 31,
1946. CIC Memorandum. 12pp.
Document
14: "Interrogation of Parents and Brother
of SS Obersturmbannführer Otto Adolf Eichmann," January
29, 1947. CIC Memorandum. 4pp.
Document
15: [Illegible German-Language Document]. February
10, 1947. 1pg.
Document
16: "Cirzick, Ernst, Allgemeine SS Obersturmbannführer
in the SD and Suspected War Criminal, Interrogation and Internment,"
February 12, 1947. CIC Memorandum. 7pp.
Document
17: "Burger, Anton [illegible] Interrogation,"
March 9, 1947. CIC Memorandum 8pp.
Document
18: "Cirzick, Ernst," January 16, 1948.
US Army Status Report. 6pp.
Document
19: "Adolf Karl Eichmann, Espionage,"
September 15, 1948. Federal Bureau of Investigation Memorandum.
1pg.
Document
20: "Einstellung der Auslande zur Judenfragen
- Date 1939-1944," November 24, 1950. Foreign Office/State
Department, German War Documents Project. 41pp.
Document
21: [Kurt Ponger Information on Adolf Eichmann]
May 1953. 1pg.
Document
22: "Telford Taylor," October 8, 1953.
6pp.
Document
23: [Eichmann Rumors en route to Damascus] October
20, 1953. CIA Message. 1pg.
Document
24: [Enquiries Negative] October 25, 1953. CIA
Message. 1pg.
Document
25: Repeat of Document 24.
Document
26: Repeat of Document 24.
Document
27: Repeat of Document 24.
Document
28: Repeat of Document 24.
Document
29: [No Trace of Eichmann] October 27, 1953. CIA
Message. 1 pg.
Document
30: [No Traces Yet] October 27, 1953. CIA Message.
1pg.
Document
31: Repeat of Document 30.
Document
32: [No Evidence of Eichmann in Egypt] October
27, 1953. CIA Message. 1pg.
Document
33: "Eichmann, Karl," October 29, 1958.
Routing Slip. 1pg.
Document
34: "Traces on Karl Heinz Eichmann,"
November 23, 1953. Chief of Mission Message. 1pg.
Document
35: Repeat of Document 32.
Document
36: "Karl Eichmann," December 22, 1953.
Dispatch. 2pp.
Document
37: [Letter from Simon Weisenthal to Dr. Goldmann]
March 30, 1954. 4pp.
Document
38: "Karl Eichmann," January 6, 1954.
Routing Slip and Dispatch. 3pp. [NOTE: Retransmission of Document
36]
Document
39: "Karl Eichmann," April 6, 1954. Acting
Chief Dispatch. 1pg.
Document
40: "Miscellaneous Travellers," January
4, 1957. Operational and Source Cover Sheet. 1pg.
Document
41: "Near Eastern Connections," March
19, 1958. 4pp.
Document
42: "Near Eastern Connections," March
19, 1958. 1pg. [Repeat of Extract Paragraph from Document 41]
Document
43: "Operation Crypt - Rolf Delius,"
March 19, 1958. Chief of Station Dispatch. 4pp.
Document
44: "Adolf Karl Eichmann," September
30, 1959. Federal Bureau of Investigation. 2pp.
Document
45: "Eichmann, Adolf - SS Colonel," May
24, 1960. 3pp.
Document
46: "Israel May Ask Death For Former High
Nazi [and other press clips]," May 24, 1960. [Various news
sources] 5pp.
Document
47: "Capture of Adolf Eichmann," [illegible
date]. 2pp.
Document
48: [Reported Capture of Eichmann] May 24, 1960.
CIA Cable. 2 pp.
Document
49: "Meeting with [excised]," May 26,
1960. CIA Memorandum for the Record. 2pp.
Document
50: "Capture of Adolf Eichmann," May
27, 1960. Air Pouch. 2pp.
Document
51: "Tuvia Friedman," May 27, 1960. Press
Translation. 1pg.
Document
52: "Eichmann, Adolph - Eichmann Documents,"
May 31, 1960. FBIS Extract. 1pg.
Document
53: "Propaganda Highlights in the Eichmann
Case [To be attached to 28 March Memo to the Director - Eichmann
Case]," March 28, 1961. Press Summaries. 7pp.
Document
54: "Adolf Eichmann," [illegible date]
CIA memorandum. 4pp.
Document
55: "World Tribunal Is Urged for Nazi,"
June 1, 1960. New York Times Article. 1pg.
Document
56: "Luncheon Meeting with [excised] at Rio
Gauche [excised] 1960," June 1, 1960. Memorandum for the
Record Extract. 1pg.
Document
57: [Request for Eichmann Fingerprints], June 1960.
CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
58: [No Fingerprints of Eichmann Found] June 3,
1960. CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
59: "NSDAP Master File, SS Officers File,
RuSHA and Misc. File: Eichmann, Adolf," May 26, 1960. Berlin
Document Center Coversheet. 1pg.
Document
60: "Press Articles on Adolf Eichmann,"
June 3, 1960. Dispatch. 2pp.
Document
61: [Send Congratulations on Eichmann Capture and
Elicit More Details on Operation] June 3, 1960. CIA Cable. 2pp.
Document
62: "Capture of Adolf Eichmann," June
6, 1960. Air Pouch. 2pp.
Document
63: [Franz Alfred Six and Other Eichmann Agents]
illegible date. CIA Cable. 3pp.
Document
64: [Newsweek Article on Eichmann-Clipping
and Memos Analyzing Eichmann Capture] June 6, 1960. 11pp.
Document
65: "SD in the Slovakei," [illegible
date]. US Army Report. 2pp.
Document
66: "Adolf Eichmann Case," August 15,
1960. Air Pouch. 1pg.
Document
67: [Existence of Eichmann Memoirs] September 13,
1960. CIA Cable. 2pp.
Document
68: "Adolf Eichmann Case," December 14,
1960. Air Pouch. 2pp.
Document
69: "Near Eastern Connections," March
19, 1958. 1pg. [Repeat of Document 42]
Document
70: "Super Secret Unit Found Eichmann,"
[date illegible]. New York Herald Tribune Article.
1pg. [text illegible]
Document
71: [International Press Sightings of Adolf Eichmann]
circa 1955. 6pp.
Document
72: "Meine Flucht - Adolf Eichmann,"
undated. Manuscript. 39pp.
Document
73: "Referat D II," [illegible date].
German Language Document. 1pg.
Directorate
of Operations File - Volume 2:
Document
1: "Adolf Eichmann," September 17, 1937.
SS Personnel Record. 2pp.
Document
2: "Beurteilung," November 9, 1937. Captured
German Document. 2pp.
Document
3: [Evacuation of Budapest Jews] November 13, 1944.
Translated German Telegram. 2pp.
Document
4: "Appeal to DCI by Mr. Adolph Berle and
Rabbi Kalmanowitz for CIA Action to "deal" with Nazi
War Criminal Karl Eichmann," October 20, 1953. CIA Memorandum.
1pg.
Document
5: "Israel Seeks Eichmann Case Compromise
with Argentina," June 13, 1960. Washington Post
Article. 1pg.
Document
6: "Rockefeller Has Two Big Hurdles,"
June 13, 1960. Washington Post Article. 1pg.
Document
7: [Request for BDC Papers on SS Officers] June
15, 1960. CIA Cable. 3pp.
Document
8: "Meeting with [excised] on 15 June 1960,"
June 15, 1960. Extract of Memorandum for the Record. 1pg.
Document
9: [Berlin Document Center Information on Eichmann]
June 15, 1960. State Department Cable. 1pg. [Repeat of first
page of Document 10 Vol 2]
Document
10: "Eichmann Case," June 15, 1960. State
Department Cable and attached other cables. 14pp.
Document
11: [Heavily Excised, Formerly Withdrawn] June
15, 1960. FBI Report. 3pp.
Document
12: "Sidelights of the Eichmann Case,"
May 1960. 4pp.
Document
13: "Adolf Eichmann," May 15, 1960. CIA
Memorandum. 3pp.
Document
14: "Selected Translations on the Eichmann
Case from German Magazine," June 15, 1960. 23pp.
Document
15: "Latin American Official on [illegible]
Visit," June 16, 1960. U.S. Embassy (Paris) Cable. 2pp.
Document
16: [French Position on Jerusalem and Eichmann
Affair] June 16, 1960. State Department Cable. 4pp.
Document
17: "Adolf Eichmann Case," June 16, 1960.
Air Pouch. 1 pg.
Document
18: [Illegible] June 16, 1960. CIA Cable. 1 pg.
Document
19: "Argentinians Helped on Eichmann,"
June 17, 1960. Washington Post Article. 1pg.
Document
20: "Tuvia Friedman's Presence in the United
States," June 17, 1960. FBI Report. 4pp. [Previously Withdrawn
Item]
Document
21: "Adolf Eichmann," June 17, 1960.
CIA Memorandum. 2pp.
Document
22: "Eichmann Case [negotiations with Argentina],"
June 17, 1960. Department of State Cable. [Other Cables Attached]
9 pp.
Document
23: [Franz Alfred Six and Other Eichmann Agents]
June 17, 1960. CIA Cable. 3pp. [Repeat of Document 63 Volume
1]
Document
24: [Ben Gurion not in Rome] June 18, 1960. U.S.
Embassy (Rome) Cable. 1pg.
Document
25: [French Position on Israel-Argentina Conflict
over Eichmann] June 18, 1960. U.S. Embassy (Paris) Cable. 2pp.
Document
26: [Proposed Meeting Between Frondizi and Ben
Gurion] June 19, 1960. 2pp.
Document
27: [Israeli Position on Negotiation to End Tension
with Argentina over Eichmann Affair] June 19, 1960. U.S. Embassy
(Tel Aviv) Cable. 1pg.
Document
28: [French and German Position on Eichmann Affair]
June 19, 1960. U.S. Embassy (Paris) Cable. 1pg.
Document
29: "Eichmann Case," June 20, 1960. Department
of State Cable. 2 pp.
Document
30: [Israeli Ambassador Herman on Eichmann Case]
June 20, 1960. U.S. Mission to the U.N. (New York) Cable. 1pg.
Document
31: [Possible Meeting with Ben-Gurion and Frondizi]
June 19, 1960. U.S. Embassy (Paris) Cable. 2pp.
Document
32: [Instructions on Argentine UN Resolution] June
20, 1960. Department of State Cable. 1pg.
Document
33: [French Position on Jerusalem] June 20, 1960.
U.S. Embassy (Jerusalem) Cable. 1pg.
Document
34: [More on Possible Meeting Between Frondizi
and Ben-Gurion] June 20, 1960. U.S. Embassy (Paris) Cable. 2pp.
Document
35: "Eichmann Case," June 20, 1960. U.S.
Mission to U.N. (New York) Cable. 3pp.
Document
36: "Eichmann Case," June 20, 1960. U.S.
Mission to U.N (New York) Cable. 2pp.
Document
37: "Eichmann Case," June 20, 1960. U.S.
Mission to U.N. (New York) Cable. 4pp.
Document
38: [Suggestion on How to Resolve Argentine-Israeli
Conflict over Eichmann, and Analysis of Future Trial - Clippings
and Other Documents Attached] June 20, 1960. 8pp.
Document
39: [Arab Editor Condemns Israeli Capture of Eichmann
in Argentina] June 21, 1960. U.S. Embassy (Cairo) Cable. 1pg.
Document
40: "Forwarding of BDC Check Results,"
June 21, 1960. Dispatch. 2pp.
Document
41: "Eichmann Case," June 21, 1960. U.S.
Mission to U.N. (New York) Cable. 3pp.
Document
42: [Scheduled Meeting Between Ben Gurion and Frondizi]
June 21, 1960. U.S. Embassy (Paris) Cable. 1pg.
Document
43: "Eichmann Case," June 21, 1960. U.S.
Mission to U.N. (New York) Cable. 2pp.
Document
44: "Eichmann Case, Wellner telecom,"
June 21, 1960. U.S. Embassy (Rome) Cable. 1pg.
Document
45: "Eichmann, Adolf," June 21, 1960.
Telephone Request for Name Check. 1pg.
Document
46: "The Eichmann Affair: The Arrest and Immediate
Aftermath," June 21, 1960. U.S. Embassy (Tel Aviv) Despatch.
13pp.
Document
47: "Eichmann Case," June 22, 1960. U.S.
Mission to U.N. (New York) Cable. 7pp.
Document
48: "Eichmann Case," June 22, 1960. U.S.
Mission to U.N. (New York) Cable. 2pp.
Document
49: [Frondizi/Ben-Gurion Meeting] June 21, 1960.
U.S. Embassy (Paris) Cable. 1pg.
Document
50: "Eichmann Case," June 22, 1960. U.S.
Mission to U.N. (New York) Cable. 1pg.
Document
51: "Eichmann Case," June 22, 1960. U.S.
Embassy (Rome) Cable. 1pg.
Document
52: [BDC Name Checks] June 22, 1960. CIA Cable.
1pg.
Document
53: "Alleged 'Captor' Tells of Seizing Eichmann,"
June 23, 1960. Washington Post Article. 1pg.
Document
54: [Tracing of Six] June 22, 1960. CIA Cable.
1pg.
Document
55: "Adolf Eichmann," June 22, 1960.
Cover Memorandum. 2pp.
Document
56: "Security Council - Eichmann Case,"
June 23, 1960. U.S. Mission to U.N. Cable. 6pp.
Document
57: "Eichmann Case," June 23, 1960. U.S.
Embassy (Tel Aviv) Cable. 3pp.
Document
58: [Caution on Name Check on Six and Others] June
23, 1960. CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
59: [Letter to Berlin Document Center on ITS Documentation
on Eichmann's Policy of Deportation of Jews] June 23, 1960.
International Committee of the Red Cross Letter. 1pg.
Document
60: "Security Council-Eichmann Case,"
June 23, 1960. U.S. Mission to U.N. (New York) Cable. 6pp.
Document
61: "Extradition Case of Nazi Josef Mengel,
Accused of War Crimes," June 24, 1960. U.S. Embassy (Buenos
Aires) Despatch. 2pp.
Document
62: "Eichmann Case," June 24, 1960. U.S.
Embassy (Tel Aviv) Cable. 2pp.
Document
63: "Adolf Eichmann Case," June 25, 1960.
Air Pouch. 1pg.
Document
64: "Ricardo Klement, Request for Fingerpring
Analysis of," June 29, 1960. Memorandum. 1pg.
Document
65: "Adolf Eichmann," July 1, 1960. Forwarding
of Captured German Documents [German Documents Not Included].
1pg.
Document
66: Israel Suggests Apology Is Enough For Eichmann,"
July 3, 1960. Evening Star Article. 1pg.
Document
67: [Untitled] July 5, 1960. Federal Bureau of
Investigation Report. 2pp. [Previously withdrawn, heavily excised]
Document
68: "Selected Translations on the Eichmann
Case from German Magazine," July 6, 1960. 7pp. [Partial
Repeat of Document 14 Vol 2]
Document
69: "West German Crackdown on Nazis,"
July 7, 1960. CIA Current Intelligence Weekly Summary. 1pg.
Document
70: [Request to International Tracing Service for
Copies of Eichmann Documents on Jewish Deportation] July 12,
1960. Berlin Document Center Letter. 1pg.
Document
71: [Request from BDC to ITS on Jewish Deportation]
July 16, 1960. CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
72: [Response to Request for Documents on Jewish
Deportation Policy of Eichmann] July 16, 1960. International
Tracing Service Letter. 1pg.
Document
73: "Eichmann, Adolf," July 21, 1960.
Memorandum. 4pp.
Document
74: "Lord Russell of Liverpool: Eichmann Trial
a Finale," July 24, 1960. Jerusalem Post Article. 1pg.
Document
75: "Adolf Eichmann," July 25, 1960.
Air Pouch. 1pg.
Document
76: "Adolf Eichmann," August 5, 1960.
Memorandum. 1pg.
Document
77: [Eichman Clippings] August 6, 1960. 1pg.
Document
78: "DDR Accuses Hans Globke of Nazi Crimes,"
July 29, 1960. Memorandum. 3pp.
Document
79: "Adolf Eichmann, Internal Security - Israel,"
August 8, 1960. Federal Bureau Investigation Report. 3pp.
Document
80: "Luncheon Meeting with [excised],"
August 9, 1960. Memorandum for the Record. 2pp.
Document
81: "DDR Accuses Hans Globke of Nazi Crimes,"
August 9, 1960. Memorandum. 1pg.
Document
82: "Adolf Eichmann Case," August 16,
1960. Air Pouch. 2pp.
Document
83: [Federal Records Center to Give Schuele Access
to Captured German Documents] August 17, 1960. CIA Cable. 3pp.
Document
84: [Abraham Selinger Requests Visa to Obtain Records
for Eichmann Trial] August 18, 1960. CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
85: "Adolf Eichmann Case," August 18,
1960. Air Pouch. 1pg.
Document
86: "Adolf Eichmann Case," August 19,
1960. Federal Bureau of Investigation Report. 3pp. [Previously
Withdrawn File]
Document
87: [No Objection to Giving Schuele Copies of Eichmann
Documents] August 20, 1960. CIA Cable. Ipg.
Document
88: [Life and Eichmann Memoirs] September 20, 1960.
CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
89: "Adolf Eichmann," August 20, 1960.
Memorandum. 1pg.
Document
90: "Documents Concerning Adolf Eichmann,"
September 6, 1960. Memorandum. 1pg.
Document
91: "Zivia Lubetkin," September 12, 1960.
Federal Bureau of Investigation Report. 2pp.
Document
92: "Officials of the West German Government
Examining Captured German Records on Eichmann," September
13, 1960. Memorandum for the Record. 2pp.
Document
93: "Adolf Eichmann," September 15, 1960.
Memorandum. 1pg.
Document
94: [Illegible Clipping] September 1960. Washington
Post Article. 1pg.
Document
95: [Selling of Eichmann Memoirs] September 16,
1960. CIA Cable. 2pp.
Document
96: [Concern over Publication of Eichmann Memoirs]
September 17, 1960. CIA Cable. 1 pg.
Document
97: "Dr. Robert M. W. Kempner," September
21, 1961. Memorandum for the Record. 1pg.
Document
98: "Israel Access to Eichmann Material in
Archives," September 29, 1960. Memorandum for the Record.
2pp.
Document
99: "Zivia Lubetkin," September 30, 1960.
Memorandum. 1pg.
Document
100: [Traces on Runge, Erwin Schuele or Hindrichs]
October 1960. 1pg.
Document
101: [Selinger Announcement to Die Welt on Eichmann
Memoirs] October 11, 1960. CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
102: [Argentina-Israel Relations After Eichmann
Affair] circa 1960. Reuters News Summary. 1pg.
Document
103: "Adolf Eichmann," October 14, 1960.
Memorandum. 1pg.
Document
104: [Life to Publish Eichmann Memoirs] October
18, 1960. CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
105: [Spiegel Article on Eichmann Memoirs] October
19, 1960. CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
106: "Adolf Eichmann," October 28, 1960.
Memorandum. 1pg.
Document
107: "Eichmann Trials: Ben-Gurion's Views,"
November 1, 1960. U.S. Embassy (Tel Aviv) Air Pouch. 5pp.
Document
108: "Memorandum of Conversation with [excised],"
November 21, 1960. 1pg.
Document
109: "Adolf Eichmann," November 25, 1960.
Memorandum. 1pg.
Document
110: [More on Eichmann Memoirs] November 22, 1960.
CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
111: [Counter Propaganda on Eichmann Case] November
29, 1960. CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
112: [Various Appearances of Eichmann Memoirs]
December 1, 1960. CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
113: "Boleslaw Piszacki," [illegible
date]. Memorandum. 1pg.
Document
114: "Eichmann Memoires," December 21,
1960. Memorandum. 1pg.
Document
115: "[excised] Involvement with West Germany
of Eichmann Case," December 2, 1960. CIA Dispatch. 1pg.
Document
116: [Letters from Otto Skorzeny] December 30,
1960. 1pg.
Document
117: [Clarification of Otto Skorzeny Involvement
in Eichmann Flight] January 4, 1961. CIA Cable. 3pp.
Document
118: [German Language Document] illegible date.
2pp.
Document
119: [German Language Document] illegible date.
4pp.
Document
120: "Eichmann, Adolf," December 1971.
Document Extract. 1pg.
Document
121: [Illegible Title, and Almost Entirely Illegible
Text], illegible date. Department of State Cable. 3pp.
Document
122: "Eichmann Case," illegible date.
Department of State Cable. 4pp. [Most of text illegible]
Document
123: [German Language Document] illegible date.
3pp.
Directorate
of Operations File - Volume 3:
Document
1: [Associations of German Refuges in Damascus]
July 25, 1960. Dispatch. 3pp.
Document
2: [Controversy of Life Publishing Material After
Kichmake Arrest]. September 15, 1960. Munich. CIA Cable. 2pp.
Document
3: [Phone Conversation Outline about Eichmann/Tadmor]
October 27, 1960. Memorandum. 2pp.
Document
4: [More on Life's Possesion of Eichmann Memoirs]
November 1, 1960. CIA Cable. 4pp.
Document
5: [Recent NYTimes Article Naming German "War
Criminals"] November 16, 1960. CIA Cable. 2pp.
Document
6: [Permission from Ethiopian Gov. for Observer
in Eichmann Trial] January 20, 1961. CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
7: "Beleslaw Piszacki," January 25, 1961.
Memorandum. 1pg.
Document
8: [Reference to Kastner Before and During Eichmann
Trial] January 25, 1961. Memorandum. 2pp.
Document
9: "Adolf Eichmann Trial," January 26,
1961. Memorandum. 1pg.
Document
10: "Possible Soviet-bloe Role in Adolf Eichmann
Case," February 7, 1961. Air Pouch. 2pp.
Document
11: [Biographic Brief on Dr. Jur Fritz Bauer] February
7, 1961. Document Extract. 1pg.
Document
12: "The Eichmann Trial and Allegations Against
Sec. State Dr. Globke," February 7, 1961. U.S. Consulate
Frankfurt Despatch. 5pp.
Document
13: "(Hessian Attorney General) Fritz Bauer,"
February 14, 1961. Air Pouch. 1pg.
Document
14: [Adolf Eichmann; Dr. Josef Mengele] February
17, 1961. Federal Bureau of Investigation Memorandum. 2pp.
Document
15: [Info for Use Against Eichmann] February 18,
1961. CIA Cable. 2pp.
Document
16: [Illegible Clipping] February 1961. 2pp.
Document
17: [Preparing Study on Soviet Exploitation of
Eichmann Case] February 22, 1961. Munich. CIA Cable. 2pp.
Document
18: [More on Soviet Study] February 23, 1961. CIA
Cable. 3pp.
Document
19: "Boleslaw Piasecki aka Piszacki,"
February 24, 1961. Memorandum. 1pg.
Document
20: [Eichmann Case: Eichmann Identified as Clement]
Illegible Date. 1pg.
Document
21: "Adolf Eichmann Trial," February
27, 1961. Air Pouch. 1pg.
Document
22: [Illegible Clipping] Illegible Date. Unknown
Doc Type. 1pg.
Document
23: [Potential Plan of Skorzeny and ex-Nazis to
Murder Eichmann] March 3, 1961. Classified CIA Message. 1pg.
Document
24: "Adolf Eichmann Case," March 6, 1961.
Air Pouch. 1pg.
Document
25: [(Excised) Discusses Major Revelation in Eichmann
Trial-More to Come in Future Convos] March 13, 1961. Munich.
Classified CIA Message. 1pg.
Document
26: "Possible Communist Exploitation of Trial
of Adolf Eichmann," March 26, 1961. Munich. Air Pouch.
2pp.
Document
27: "Evaluation of Eichmann Documents,"
March 17, 1961. Memorandum. 2pp.
Document
28: "Eichmann Trial," March 24, 1961.
CIA Doc. 1pg.
Document
29: [A West German has been Appointed Legal Observer
in Eichmann Trial] March 28, 1961. CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
30: "The Eichmann Case," March 28, 1961.
Memorandum. 6pp.
Document
31: "Boleslaw Plasecki aka Piszacki,"
April 3, 1961. Memorandum. 1pg.
Document
32: "Re: Our Telegram 3475 March 20, 1959
and Previous Joseph Elie Kessel," April 4, 1961. US Embassy
(Paris) Cable. 1pg.
Document
33: "Dr. Friedrich Karl Kaur," April
6, 1961. Memorandum. 3pp.
Document
34: [Biographic Brief on Dr. Gorhard Froiherr von
Pruesohen] April 13, 1961. US Consulate (Frankfurt) Cable. 1pg.
Document
35: [German Refugee Brunner Escaping Punishment
for Anti-Jewish Activities] April 26, 1961. CIA Cable. 2pp.
Document
36: "Allegations that Eichmann is now a Communist,"
April 21, 1961. Memorandum. 1pg.
Document
37: [Summary of Facts Known about Subject] April
26, 1961. CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
38: [Eichmann's Brother-in-Law a Czech Colonel-In
Obscure Military Assignment to Avoid Publicity] Illegible Date.
2pp.
Document
39: "Report from Israel," April 1961.
The American Jewish Committee Report. 7pp.
Document
40: "Allegations that Eichmann is now a Communist,"
Illegible Date. Memorandum. 2pp.
Document
41: [Security of (Subject) when Visiting Ha'am
Jerusalem] May 6, 1961. Air Pouch. 5pp.
Document
42: [More on Eichmann Being Communist] May 9, 1961.
Munich. Classified CIA Message. 2pp.
Document
43: [Requesting (Subject) with Advance Notice of
Info of Publication w/ Text] May 1961. CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
44: [Testimony Against Eichmann] May 10, 1961.
US Embassy (Berlin) Cable. 1pg.
Document
45: "Eichmann Trial Visit," May 12, 1961.
Dispatch. 1pg.
Document
46: "Miscellaneous Notes," May 12, 1961.
Document Extract. 1pg.
Document
47: ["The People" (London) Hold Rights
to Eichmann Memoirs] May 17, 1961. CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
48: "Eichmann Trial Visit; [excised] Relations
with [excised]," May 25, 1961. Air Pouch. 2pp.
Document
49: "Nicholas Eichmann - Internal Security
Israel," May 26, 1961. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Report. 1pg.
Document
50: [Eichmann Confession on Communism] June 5,
1961. CIA Cable. 2pp.
Document
51: [Rejection of Proposal to Take Klaus Eichmann
to Israel to Visit Father During Trial] June 12, 1961. CIA Cable.
1pg.
Document
52: [Confidential Informant - Heavily Excised]
June 16, 1961. Federal Bureau of Investigation Report. 3pp.
[Formerly Withdrawn File]
Document
53: "Klaus Nicolas Peter Eichmann - Internal
Security Eichmann," June 16, 1961. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Report. 2pp.
Document
54: "Communique of the Communist Party of
the U.S. on the Eichmann Trial," June 19, 1961. Memorandum.
1pg.
Document
55: "The Eichmann Trial: A Midway Assessment,"
June 20, 1961. U.S. Embassy (Tel Aviv) Air Pouch. 4pp.
Document
56: [Group Protecting Eichmann] June 24, 1961.
CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
57: [Argentine Agent Who Protected Eichmann In
Fear for Life] June 24, 1961. CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
58: "Klaus Nicolas Peter Eichmann," June
28, 1961. Federal Bureau of Investigation Report. 3pp.
Document
59: [Eichmann on Communism] October 17, 1961. CIA
Cable. 2pp.
Document
60: [Martin Bormann's Presence in Argentina] May
1, 1961. Associated Press Summary. 1pg.
Document
61: "General Expansiveness of [excised],"
August 24, 1961. Air Pouch. 1pg.
Document
62: "Adolf Eichmann - 201-047132," December
28, 1961. CIA Dispatch. 1pg.
Document
63: "Simon Wiesenthal," January 26, 1962.
Memorandum. 2pp.
Document
64: "Dr. Friedrich Kaul," February 12,
1962. Air Pouch. 1pg.
Document
65: [Attempted Deportation of Eichmann to Argentina]
February 27, 1962. CIA Cable. 1pg.
Document
66: [Eichmann Comments on Globke] February 28,
1962. CIA Cable. 2pp.
Document
67: [Eichmann Book on Globke] March 7, 1962. CIA
Cable. 1pg.
Document
68: [Information on Unnamed Austrian Communist]
April 3, 1962. Memorandum. 1pg.
Document
69: [Interrogator of Eichmann Former Communist]
April 4, 1962. Memorandum. 1pg.
Document
70: Efforts on Behalf of Adolf Eichmann by Otto
Skorzeny," May 7, 1962. CIA Dispatch. 1pg.
Document
71: [Yugoslav and Austrian Questioning of Eichmann
on Former Nazi War Criminals] May 7, 1962. U.S. Embassy (Tel
Aviv) Cable. 1pg.
Document
72: "Walk-In of Adolf Eichmann's Son,"
August 24, 1962. CIA Dispatch. 2pp.
Document
73: "Adolf Eichmann Dies on the Gallows; Self-Possessed,
Defiant to the End," June 1, 1962. Reuters Article. 2pp.
Document
74: "The Talk of the Town," June 20,
1963. New Yorker Article. 1pg.
Document
75: "Meine Flucht - Adolf Eichmann,"
undated. 40pp.[Repeat of Document 72 Vol 1]
Document
76: "Meine Flucht - Adolf Eichmann,"
undated. 39pp.[Repeat of Document 72 Vol 1 and Document 75 Vol
3 - Very poor reproduction quality]
Document
77: "Eichmann Trial Exploited for Defamation
Campaign against the Federal Republic by Eastern Propaganda
and Agitation - Documentary Report," February 22, 1961.
345pp. [Majority German Language Reproduction of Other Publications]
Notes
1. For further reading on the role of the CIA's Counterintelligence
(CI) staff in locating documents and their relations with Israeli
intelligence, see Timothy Naftali's essay "CIA and Eichmann's
Associates," in U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis, (Washington,
DC: National Archive Trust Fund Board, 2004), 339.
2. Ibid, 340.
3. Ibid, 343. The National Security Archive plans to publish
the full CIA names file on Otto Von Bolschwing and four other
Eichmann associates profiled in Naftali's essay in the coming
weeks.
4. Douglas Jehl, "CIA Defers to Congress, Agreeing to Disclose
Nazi Records," New York Times, February 7, 2005.
5. Douglas Jehl, "CIA Said to Rebuff Congress on Nazi Files,"
New York Times, January 30, 2005.
