18-11-2008, 07:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 18-11-2008, 10:01 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
Dawn Meredith Wrote:Peter (And anyonbe out there in the MA area):
In the 80s and 90's Carl Oglesby sued the US government over and over to obtain two sets of records: his own and those of the Gahlen Org, with a particular interest in writing about Skorzeny. He was eventually successful. But by the time he received all the boxes- they literally filled a room- he was out of steam, still working on his SDS memoir- where his personal FBI files did assist his memory
It is my understanding that all of these boxes have been donated to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA. Hopefully some enterprising researcher will make good use of these materials. It was Oglesby and Mae Brussell (separately) who first broke the Gahlen story. Carl in his masterfull " The Yankee and Cowboy War: Conspiracies from Dallas to Watergate", (1976).
John Simkin had begun scanning that book at EF in 06, got about 5 chapters up then ...stopped. Perhaps someone here who still posts there can ask him to finish this project for the sake of education. The book has been out of print for decades now.
Dawn
Interesting and important information - and new to me. Thanks Dawn. I'll contact the University. Skorzeny was one of those who went from one of Hitler's men to 'one of ours'. Dulles was in contact with him well, well before the end of the war [as well as after] and his 'escape' from an American POW camp was an OP, not an escape! I could go on about Skorzeny, but it is late and I've had too much wine...another time. There were even bigger fish than Skozeny IMO that were taken under the 'wing' of the American Eagle. I'm currently researching one such 'bigger fish' and have some USG documents on him from a mole within one of our archives. Officially, the same archive denies having any documents on this person. It is all Alice In Wonderland, and they know we are usually without the resources, lawyers, influence, etc. to do much about it - but shear wit and stuborn perseverance can, sometimes, make the difference. Blunder on, all!