Jim DiEugenio on The Devil's Chessboard

[David Guyatt]

I found Mannning's book and downloaded it for subsequent reading. I'm reading "Devil's Chessboard" now.

I gotta say this up front: Just because someone told Manning that Bormann was alive doesn't make it so. There were undoubtedly high ranking Nazis that made it out of Germany alive. Some of them had help from the US government. That doesn't mean Bormann was one of them.

I have been watching with interest, and an open mind, the Hunting Hitler series on the History Channel (even though it's based on a book by Corsi). Telling people that Hitler, and Bormann, and/or others are still alive might simply serve to generate some "geheimnisBehörde" for people claiming to be the heirs of the Nazi ideology (or their loot).

You might also be interested in these links:

http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/f...anization/

https://archive.org/details/For_The_Reco...er_Manning

http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/f...urnalists/

Great links R. K. Thanks. I hadn't seen these before - or had forgotten them, but they add further important dimensions to the Bormann story, especially on the personal level:

Of particular interest is Peter's moving account of the troubles his father and the family experienced as a result of his father's work on the book.

In addition to surveillance and harassment, the family experienced economic hardship as a result of the deliberate eclipsing of the book by elements hostile to its message.

Jerry Manning, Peter's brother, was murdered, and Paul Manning believed the killing was in retaliation for the publishing of the book. The head of Lyle Stuart had his legs broken the week the book was released and Paul believed that also was punitive action by the Bormann group.

Other highlights include: Paul's belief that the Bormann Organization had infiltrated the CIA without the CIA's knowledge; Paul's belief that the Bormann Organization was behind the assassination of President Kennedy; and Peter's ruminations on the effect of the advent of television on journalism in general and his father's career in particular.

And

Pro*gram high*lights include: inter*est in the rites to Manning's book as a pos*si*ble motion pic*ture or the*atri*cal pro*duc*tion; CBS news' par*tial spon*sor*ship of Manning's research on the Bor*mann story; the role of the Bor*mann Orga*ni*za*tion in the so-called "Eco*nomic Mir*a*cle;" the post-war recov*ery of the West Ger*man econ*omy; acknowl*edge*ment by Simon Weisenthal's top inves*ti*ga*tor that Gen*eral Hein*rich Mueller com*manded the best intel*li*gence orga*ni*za*tion in the world from his posi*tion as direc*tor of secu*rity for the Orga*ni*za*tion; Hein*rich Mueller's role in set*ting up Moham*mer Khadafy's secret ser*vice; Mueller's skill*ful dis*cred*it*ing of author Ladis*las Farago (author of After*math); Manning's dev*as*tat*ing rebut*tal of crit*i*cism directed at his book by an L.A. Times reviewer and his unsuc*cess*ful attempts to obtain an inter*view with Bor*mann him*self, despite sus*tained com*mu*ni*ca*tion with both Mueller and Bor*mann. Sadly, there was no sub*stan*tive response to the efforts of Manning's con*tem*po*raries.

Interesting re the bolded part. It seems to confirm my theory and that Dulles was working with Mueller in this respect. I was somewhat younger when I first read Manning and decided to conduct further research and write on Bormann's escape. Manning was dead, so I called Simon Wiesenthal in Vienna (I think it was). When I explained that I was considering going to Argentina on Bormann's trail, he was politely scornful and strongly discouraged me. Looks like he was dong me a favour.