Colonia Dignidad: Chile's Nazi colony

[Ralf Anders]

But which CIA links? Is it just because the CIA was involved in Condor, or is there something more tangible?

Yes, primarily, that CIA was CENTRAL to the funding, coordination, communications and impetus for Condor....but there are some persons that CIA either wanted hidden there or tortured/disappeared there.

Thank you. Do you have more information on these persons?

I also think that the weapons/poison gasses stored there are similar to the Gladio stay-behind caches that were handled under NATO's secret arm, but had its genesis in discussions between Gehlin and Dulles and his friends in OSS/CIA. Gladio is usually thought of as 'European' and I was making the point that it really is a Worldwide network of related neo-fascist groups and enclaves/stashes of weapons to do the dirty work for a certain grouping. They often do their own dirty deeds, but they also take marching orders from Langley and other US entities, IMHO.

I agree. If we do not stick to the meaning "stay-behind armies" but broaden our view exactly as you suggest, Operation Condor can be seen as part of Gladio or, more generally speaking, part of a internationally coordinated parallel foreign policy employing the fascist and neo-fascist underground in order to battle communism. Of course, various players from the European Gladio theater like Yves Guillou, Stefano delle Chiaie etc. also worked in Latin and South America during the 70s and 80s. In Bolivia, delle Chiaie collaborated with Klaus Barbie in the 1980 "Cocaine Coup" (excellent new ARTE documentary here: http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/051086-000/m...ei-altmann). Michael Townley on the other hand travelled to Europe in 1975 in order to "observe" Latin American exile organisations:

http://www.tageblatt.lu/nachrichten/stor...g-21007640

That the German Embassy in Chile [likely with some help/urging from BND] returned to C.D. those few who sought refuge from it in the Embassy in Santiago is especially chilling and tells a tale few know or speak about.....how certain entites in post-War Germany looked the other way [at best] and aided [at worst] some of the internal and external unreformed Nazis. Nothing like that could be done without, at least, the passive acquiescence of the CIA either.

Yes. I suggest that official Germany looked the other way and certain circles actively aided the Nazis. The key figure is Franz Josef Strauss who effectively conducted a parallel foreign policy (supported by a parallel secret service -- cf. the Langemann papers, Brian Crozier and Stefanie Waske, "Nach Lektüre vernichten!" ('Destroy After Reading!')). Strauss not only supported reactionary and fascist movements across the globe but at least at one point had direct links to the terrorist underground, supporting Aginter Presse with funds from German industrialists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMa3XDRE5SI

From the 50s to the 70s Munich was a hotbed for spies, exile organisations and fascists etc. People who resided there include Antoine Argoud, Jacques Soustelle and many other OAS members, Stepan Bandera and Yaroslav Stetsko, founder of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations and board member of the WACL (more information on Stetsko can be found in Simpson's "Blowback" and probably Russ Bellant's book on the subject).

Some more information off the top of my head which may be of interest:

Stuart Christie in his "Stefano delle Chiaie" claims that the main financier of neo-fascist terror organsations in Europe was the infamous Eberhard Taubert. This information probably stems from Patrice Chairoff's "B.... comme Barbouzes" and is therefore suspect (as Henrik Krueger found out to his surprise, Chairoff was not the left-winger he claimed to be but in reality a long-standing member of the fascist underground, cf. "The Great Heroin Coup") -- but it seems that most of what Chairoff says in his book is accurate. Taubert was recruited by the CIA at one point, served as an aide to Strauss and later worked for German industrialist and Strauss friend Fritz Ries. To quote Martin A. Lee on Ries and Taubert:

'But who was Ries, and where did he get his money? During the Third Reich, Ries made a fortune from expropriating "Aryanized" Jewish property and from slave labor in factories near the Auschwitz concentration camp. Not only was Ries never condemned for his Nazi-era crimes, he went on to become the patron of several conservative West German politicians, including Kohl, who was elected chancellor in 1982. As a token of his gratitude, Kohl awarded Ries West Germany's highest civil decoration, the Bundesverdienstkreuz or "Federal Cross of Merit."

It gets worse: Ries retained as his legal advisor and chief of staff Eberhard Taubert, another compromised Third Reich veteran. During World War II, Taubert served as a judge on the People's Tribunal, which handed down death sentences for such "crimes" as telling an anti-Hitler joke or sleeping with a Jew. Taubert was also employed by Joseph Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry. In this capacity, he wrote scripts for several horrendous Third Reich propaganda films, including "Der ewige Jude" ("The Eternal Jew"), which depicts Jews as rats and vermin. "Wherever rats turn up, they bring destruction with them. They destroy goods and foodstuffs and they spread disease . . . . Among animals, they represent an element of treacherous, subterranean destruction, just as Jews do among men," the film's narrator explained.'

http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jun/25/...n/op-44604

These are just two of the people in Strauss' inner circle. Of course, Strauss was also a member of Le Cercle.

And he visited Colonia Dignidad. As did other Bavarian politicians. The SPIEGEL quotes one Bavarian representative (my quick translation): '"They are conservative, hold Bavaria dear, show the flag with the lion and the [Raute]. Hope for Germany." (For the lion and the "Raute" see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Bavaria). In the central building of the settlement, a signed portrait of Strauss was hanging on the wall as late as the mid-90s. The German Embassy in Santiago had close contacts to Schaefer."

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/colonia-d...45888.html