All language subtitles for Nazis in the CIIA.3_Eng

[suspenseful music]

[narrator] The BKA,

the German Federal
Police in Wiesbaden.

For six years
the agency is run by a man

integral to its inception,

Paul Dickopf.

A top civil servant,
with a seemingly clean record,

he claims he opposed the Nazis.

Until 1971,

Willy Brandt is Chancellor.

He is the top criminologist

in West Germany.

[suspenseful music continues]

Anyone who criticized him,

or posed any kind
of threat to him,

was never allowed to forget it.

He held a grudge
and destroyed such people.

[narrator] Dickopf doesn't only

forge a career for himself
in West Germany.

In 1968
he becomes head of Interpol.

It's now his job

to fight crime
on an international scale.

[Schenk] When Dickopf left,

Genscher, his Interior
Minister of the time

held him out as an example

to police all over Germany.

[narrator] After
Dickopf's death, in 1973,

staff researching files

to compile the obituary...

make an astonishing find.

They turn up documents

outing Dickopf
as a staunch Nazi.

His lifelong lie

finally comes to light.

Dickopf was not only
a member of the SS

and a Nazi spy.

Shortly before
the end of the war,

he switched sides
to start working as an agent

for the Americans.

Numerous CIA documents

given insight into the work
of Caravel,

which was Dickopf's
CIA code name.

The highest ranking member

of the German police,

sold confidential information

from the government.

Chancellor, Willy Brandt,

[unintelligible]

was of particular interest
to the Americans.

And Dickopf readily
provided the information...

as did many other Nazis,
during the Cold War.

They became willing helpers,

spies, because American
intelligence services

used their pasts
to blackmail them.

[suspenseful music continues]

The Americans were
never very bothered

if the people they needed
have closes ties

to mass murderers,
or extremists,

or terrorists.

The ends justified the means.

[narrator] American
intelligence services

faced a new enemy...

Communism.

The US enlisted former Nazis
as spies.

There was no attempt
to punish them

for their war crimes.

[Christopher] As the Cold War
grew hot...

these Nazi collaborators...

became pawns...

of Western
intelligence services,

for a variety of
both psychological

warfare type missions...

covert operations,

and this type of thing.

[introduction music]

[narrator] Only now,
are Secret Service files

from the Cold War, accessible.

And they contain documents
about Nazis,

who became CIA spies.

Another case,
that has recently surfaced,

is that of Eugen Steinle,

a die-hard Nazi

who led firing squads
in the Soviet Union.

[suspenseful music]

[airplane noises]

Steinle was thought
to be among those killed,

when a Lufthansa plane crashed,
near Nuremberg,

on the 20th of April, 1945.

Eyewitnesses saw
the burning plane in the sky.

And the crash sight
is still visible

in the Piesenkofen forest today.

At the time,
locals collected up everything

that they found
around the wreckage.

[suspenseful music continues]

One item recovered
was a briefcase

containing documents and IDs.

Among them, was one
belonging to Steinle.

The briefcase was taken

to the local Nazi
commander's office.

A few days later...

US troops marched into the area.

And the briefcase was ceased

by members of the army's
secret service.

The Americans
were looking for Nazis

they could use
for their own purposes.

And every personal detail

would help them in their search.

They suspected Steinle,
was still alive.

CIA documents,

listing the contents
of the briefcase,

make it possible to reconstruct

what really happened.

The Lufthansa plane
takes off from Tempelhof

on April the twentieth, 1945

while the battle
for Berlin is raging.

Those on board
know it's only a matter of time

before the Russians
and the Western allies,
take power.

There are more than twenty
passengers on the condor...

among them, a number of men
in leather overcoats.

[airplane turbine engine]

The captain takes off
under the cover of darkness.

The planned
destination is Spain...

with a fuel stop in Munich.

But the weather is bad.

[Karl]
I can still remember my father

telling us over breakfast...

about a low-flying plane...

making such a racket.

[screaming turbine engine]

[Maria] A friend lives
very near to here

and that evening,
a burning plane

flew over her roof.

Panic-stricken,
her mother grabbed hold

of both the children

and threw them
and herself to the ground.

She said that since the father

had died in the war

the three of them
should die together.

[loud explosion]

[narrator] The plane
crashes in a forest
with no survivors.

Were there high-ranking Nazis

on-board the condor,
trying to get to Spain?

American intelligence flies

the briefcase and the documents
to the US.

[airplane rumbling]

The agents in Washington
know the end of the war

will herald a new chapter

in the confrontation
of the superpowers.

And, in order to secure
an advantage...

they will recruit former,
top Nazis.

They strike it lucky.

One man in the files

is of particular interest
to the Americans...

Eugen Steinle.

Their research tells them...

he was responsible
for mass murders in Russia.

[gunshots]

The agents suspect
he is still alive.

As a number of witnesses

report having seen him,
after the crash.

Locals near the crash sight
are questioned again.

As a war criminal,

Steinle is valuable
to the Americans.

[Christopher]
It was impossible...

to systematically...

uh, recruit

intelligence agents...

without...

systematically recruiting
war criminals.

Those things went together.

[suspenseful music]

[narrator] They launch a manhunt

across Germany,
for Eugen Steinle...

who fled to his home,
in the Black Forest.

The net closes

and in autumn, 1945

the former
SS intelligence officer,

turns himself in
for interrogation.

He knows his only chance
is to tell the truth.

A defector,
who has something to hide

murders, for example

can be blackmailed.

And is therefore valuable

in the hands of his new bosses.

[narrator] Steinle,
collaborates.

His testimony on the documents
from the briefcase

help the Americans to uncover

an entire network
of German spies in Spain.

It consists
of dozens of ex-Nazis,

who followed the collapse
of the Third Reich,

are already working

on their next crazy idea,

the Fourth Reich,

which translates
to worldwide fascism.

The Americans observe them...

and recruit the Spanish players

to work on their behalf.

Following his interrogation,

Steinle is sentenced to death
by hanging.

But is then, surprisingly
pardoned.

Did the Americans enlist him
and influence the verdict?

There is no proof
as important files are missing

from the US
interrogation center,
in Oberursel.

[suspenseful music]

Nazis like Dickopf and Steinle

had become agents.

But the US intelligence services

want more than just spies,
they want Nazi traitors.

Right up until
the war was over

the allies believed the Nazis
had an Alpine redoubt.

Even now the myth
of missing Nazi gold,

still lures treasure
hunters to the area.

But do these treasures
really exist?

[bleeping]

Towards the end of the war
German industry made plans

to secure its capital
in the event of defeat.

[indistinctive chattering]

[Christopher] This was
very dangerous,

to have such discussions.

But nevertheless,

the alternative

of losing everything

when Hitler was finally dead

however that exactly happened,
was even more dangerous.

So they went ahead with this.

And they started to...

draw up...

plans...

some of which still exist...

on how they would attempt to...

reconstitute...

Germany after Hitler left.

[narrator] These
activities were no secret

to the allied
intelligence services.

They launched a large scale

international
surveillance operation

code named 'Safe Haven'.

[suspenseful music continues]

Safe Haven was the...

name of a US Government program

whose task it was

to track and seize

assets that the Nazis had
seized, had looted, from Europe.

They were attempting
to distribute

around the world, in order to...

uh, for use after 1945.

[narrator] The Americans
knew such plans

had been hatched by industry...

and even in the Reich chancery.

They were also aware

of a network
of foreign companies

set up to keep funds safe.

In Monaco in particular,

numerous shell corporations

had access to millions.

One company was a broadcaster...

on whose board,
sat the then unknown...

Kurt Georg Kiesinger.

He would eventually become
chancellor of West Germany.

The fact that he worked

for the Foreign
and Propaganda Ministries,

during the Third Reich,

didn't adversely
affect his career.

Allied agents submitted
detailed reports

about financial transfers.

Sometimes, they were even able

to smuggle people into meetings.

This espionage operation

was led by Allan Dallas,

then a US agent in Switzerland,

who later rose
to be head of the CIA.

He knew how to use his knowledge

of the Nazi's financial doings

to benefit his career,
in Washington.

When a bomb attack
destroys the Berlin Reichsbank,

in March 1945...

gold and currency reserves

are no longer secure.

It's time to put
the plan into action...

quickly and thoroughly.

Everything is meticulously noted
and checked

as 360 tons of gold

and 300 tons of silver

and banknotes

are loaded up and taken away.

Documents relating
to the Reichsbank's gold

remain undiscovered
in the German Central Bank

for more than sixty years

when Karl Bernd Esser
finally finds them.

All the gold that was
in the Reichsbank

was moved to Merkers

or to certain depots in Bavaria.

[narrator] Now the Americans
see their chance.

Thanks to Operation
Safe Haven

they know exactly
where the gold is stored.

They arrive in the Soviet
occupation zone

at the Merker's salt line

in the eastern
state of Thuringia

before the Soviets themselves.

They declare
the Reichsbank gold,

to be Nazi loot...

and take it with them.

They also seize other
treasures they find there.

Including Italian
gold reserves...

and gold from a national bank

for Bohemia and Moravia.

[suspenseful music]

Were the hiding
places in the Alps

also cleared out long ago?

You definitely
won't find any gold

in Bavaria today.

There was a settlement document

stating how much gold
the Reichsbank deposited

in the different depots.

These depots were all found
largely by the Americans.

We even went across
into the Soviet zone to Merkers

and quickly emptied
the main depot there.

[narrator] Karl Bernd Esser
says it was an act of theft

because it essentially means
the Germans twice repaid

their Marshall Plan loan.

Once with the Reichsbank's gold
and once in deutsche marks.

[suspenseful music continues]

[Karl] The Marshall Plan,
was a successful

American invention

of how to trek friends

without them realizing it.

If I take a thousand
Euros from you

and you don't notice

and then I say, "I'll lend
you a thousand Euros

and you pay it back
with a bit of interest."

You'd think,
"What a nice gesture."

But in reality,
I took a thousand Euros

from you already,
you just didn't notice.

[narrator] The US
intelligence services

don't only use their knowledge

and their treasures in Germany,

but also recruit
Italian fascists

during the Cold War.

The idea is
that they will fight communism

on America's behalf.

[dramatic music]

Starting the 1960s...

a series of attacks in Italy
claim hundreds of lives.

The violence is initially
blamed on left-wingers...

but it's now known
to have been the work

of right-wing radicals.

Stefano Delle Chiaie
is head of the new Reich party.

He is repeatedly accused
of terrorist activity...

but is never convicted.

Our political position
was very simple

and quite clear.

It was based
on historical experience,

for which we had great respect
and that was fascism.

We tried to apply
basic fascist values

to the reality surrounding us.

[narrator] In 1970,

the fascist revolutionaries
and their backers

want to stage a coup in Italy

and stamp out
the left-wing parties.

They discuss
their plans with the CIA.

We know the CIA

was informed about these plans.

[narrator] On December
the seventh,

Delle Chiaie supporters,

the far right,
Avanguardia Nazionale

and parts of the military

set their plan in motion.

Their first targets
are the state broadcaster

and government buildings.

The revolutionaries around

Stefano Delle Chiaie,

believe they are pulling
the strings.

But the attempted coup
is actually being driven
from elsewhere.

Although Delle Chiaie,

still proudly
claims responsibility.

I was responsible for the coup,
morally and politically.

Even if I wasn't
in Italy at the time...

The Commandant had prepared
a perfect plan

which would have triggered
a chain of commands,

starting at the Ministry
of Defense.

Everything was prepared
and ready.

And, had the plan
been activated

military units would
have been mobilized

and would've taken control
of every strategic sight
in the country.

[narrator] The fight
against the left-wing,
has a long history in Italy.

And the US intelligence services

have been involved
from the very beginning.

Its influence begins
with the invasion of Sicily,

when allied soldiers fight
and beat the access powers.

But some Italian forces
don't give up

and continue to fight
on the side of the Germans
until 1945.

One unit in particular
is feared,

the Decima Flottiglia MAS,

the world's first
frogman commander.

The allies both fear and admire
their daring operations.

The leader of the unit
is Valerio Borghese,

the Black Prince.

[Alessandro]
The Decima MAS, Prince Borghese

was probably the best trained

and most highly motivated unit

in the entire fascist republic.

[suspenseful music]

[narrator] It takes
another two years

before World War II
is won in Italy.

And when the Americans
finally march into Rome...

they are welcomed as liberators.

Even by the pope
who shares the US fear

of a shift
to the left in Italy.

[indistinctive chattering]

[singing]

Because the Communists
are gaining popularity.

[Alessandro]
The aim of the Americans...

was to keep the Communists

out of the government.

To keep them away from power.

[narrator] CIA agent,
James Jesus Angleton,

starts preparing
a coup in the event

that the Communists
win the Italian elections.

Angleton had excellent

connections in Italy.

He spoke Italian,
even with the Vatican

which back then,
perhaps even now,

has the most efficient
intelligence service
in the world.

Angleton and Borghese
became good friends.

Borghese came from
the fascist movement

and founded
the Fronte Nazionale

as a way of bundling

the different
right-wing movements.

It was all of the means

of preventing
shift to the left...

because the left parties,

were gaining strength in Italy.

[narrator] The Communists
are the archenemies of Borghese,

who almost killed him
at the end of the war.

To act against the Communists

the CIA enlists Borghese.

[Christopher] Angleton,
succeeded in convincing

the rest of the US government...

that...

the elections of 1947,

1948 in Italy

would lead to a Communist

government in Italy.

And therefore...

the Americans should sink
millions of dollars

into disrupting these elections

and disrupting particularly

the left-wing candidates
in these elections.

[narrator] Operation
Safe Haven pays off.

The Americans
used seized Nazi loot

to finance Angleton's activities
against Italy's Communists.

The seized riches
will never be returned

to the victims
or their relatives.

[Christopher] The money was

money frequently,

that had been looted
from Europe's Jews.

Why?

The exchange stabilization fund

was set up...
early during World War II...

to seize Nazi assets
in international trade.

It was part of the blockade...

of Germany.

[narrator] Angleton
sets up a partisan army.

This rarely seen footage
shows training.

Many of the partisans
are fascists

from Borghese's front men.

Gladio, as the unit was called,

is under the exclusive command
of the CIA.

[gun shots]

In the event that Italy

democratically voted
to become socialists,

there would be
stay-behind networks

underground elements
that were honored and paid

and ideologically prepared to...

attempt to overturn

that democratically
elected government.

[narrator] But Gladio,
was called off

because the Communists
lost the first

post-war elections.

The mood is tense...

as the Soviets
are forced to accept

that Italy now belongs
to the US fear of control.

And any hopes of a third way

are dashed by Yalta.

Yalta, meant the victors,

or better said, Russia,
Great Britain and the US

signed a treaty in which

they divided the world

into future areas of influence

and shared it out
amongst themselves.

Most specifically,
they divided up Europe.

The treaty remained unchanged

until the collapse
of the Soviet Union.

Until the fall
of the Berlin wall
in the eighties.

[narrator] Yalta puts Italy
under US influence.

It's clear that in matters
relating to their political

and strategic interests...

the Americans will do
what they see fit.

And that they will
not create space

between the blocks
for a third power.

In the post-Yalta world,

in which the borders
of the different blocks

were carefully adhered to
the respective hegemonic powers,

crushed any uprising.

That went for Hungary in 1956
and even more so for Berlin
in 1953.

And it went
for every other revolt.

And terrorism
in Italy and Germany,

really only served one purpose,

it was to stabilize
the political status quo.

[suspenseful music]

[narrator] As to the 1978 murder

of Italian Prime Minister,
Aldo Moro...

he was kidnapped and shot
by the Red Brigades.

But numerous agents
and intelligence services

were also involved
in the killing.

Many Italians believed
Moro was murdered

because he wanted a third way.

Other powers were also involved
in the 1970 attempted coup.

Borghese and Delle Chiaie
were just puppets.

[suspenseful music continues]

We know of a telephone call

with Borghese that took place

between one
and two in the morning.

And then the coup was stopped.

We also know
that this call was with

a high ranking politician.

In a written statement he made
before his death,

Borghese claimed that one
of Andreotti's confidantes,

had called him
and that he was acting
on the instructions of Andreotti

who was the American's
puppet at the time.

[narrator] The ones really
pulling the strings

are high ranking Italians.

Right-wing politician,
Giulio Andreotti...

who was later Prime Minister,
seven times.

And Licio Gelli,

head of the P2 Freemasons lodge
and American agent.

They started to spread
all kinds of lies.

We're talking now about Gelli,

who blew off the coup.

We're talking about Andreotti
who backed him

and who's still withholding
important facts.

For example, that his friend,

the public prosecutor
of the coup

of the charter, Borghese,

who was also
Andreotti's puppet...

requested 28 years in prison
for me and my comrades.

You have to be careful
with friends like that.

[suspenseful music]

[narrator] During the attempted
coup the US Military
flexed its muscles.

Shortly beforehand,
the sixth US fleet

was allegedly put
on a state of alert.

Hoping to impress the CIA,
Gelli and Andreotti

presented themselves
to the Americans,

as influential figures
capable of both mobilizing

and calling off military coups.

Fascists such as Borghese
and Delle Chiaie,

have to go underground.

The US intelligence services
choose South America

as the most suitable place.

There, in their search
for power...

the Fascists join forces
with Dictators.

Clearly we wanted
to implement our ideology,

and our conviction there.

And our fight for fascism,

fell on more fertile ground
in Latin America than elsewhere.

Many parties in Latin America,

had fascist or national
socialist roots.

[narrator] But Chile
is different.

In 1971,
Socialist, Salvador Allende

is elected to power.

His Marxist politics,
make him enemies...

and many enthusiastic followers.

This was perceived
by the United States...

as a tremendous threat.

Because if peaceful
revolution...

uh, were to take hold...

that would greatly weaken
the United States ideological

hold on South America.

[narrator] Under the instruction
of US Secretary of State,

Henry Kissinger,
the CIA becomes active in Chile.

The staunch anti-communist

is not content
to bank on Allende

losing the next elections.

In September, 1973,
General Pinochet,

supported by Italian fascists,
stages a military coup.

The Americans leave them to it.

The two sides, like Pinochet,

want to wipe out communism.

[ominous music]

We were in contact
with Chilean comrades

before the coup in Chile.

In 1974, Commandant Borghese
and I were in Santiago,

where we met President Pinochet.

We started working
closely together.

When we arrived in Chile

we were greeted
by President Pinochet.

[narrator] In 1975,

the Fascists gather in Madrid

to attend the funeral
of a mutual

and like-minded friend,

Spanish dictator,
Francisco Franco.

It's here that the cooperation
between Italian fascists

and the Chilean intelligence
service, DINA, is sealed.

The ringleader is none other
than Stefano Delle Chiaie.

But again, his involvement
in the ensuing crimes
is never proven.

The first meeting
of collaborators...

but it's not the last.

[John] Pinochet himself,
meets with these...

terrorists who
have just pulled off

this assassination.

And um...

Monroe Contreras says they're in

everybody is...
having a kind of...

right-wing love fest.

They then,
Stefano Delle Chiaie are given

permission, apparently
at that meeting...

that they can
set up headquarters in Chile.

So the Italians then began
to collaborate with DINA.

[narrator] There follows
a series of murders.

[suspenseful music]

[loud explosion]

Among the targets is Allende's
former Foreign Minister,

Orlando Letelier, in Washington.

But terrorism on home turf
is too much for the US

which reigns Pinochet in.

They talked about the weakness
of the United States

and its ability to defeat
the communist menace.

Uh... and the desire of the...

military governance
in Latin America

take the leadership...

uh, internationally...

to defeat the communist
movement worldwide.

It's...

uh, the scope of this...

is mind-blowing.

They actually refer to it as...

World War III.

[narrator] Pinochet's Junta
prepares for this war.

[Heller] It included
the wish to own toxic gasses,

the production
of biological weapons...

and prisoners in Chile,

were killed during trials.

And the production
of toxic gasses,

sarin and mustard gas.

[men singing]

[narrator]The research laboratory
for inhuman experiments,

is located at Colonia Dignidad.

The hamlet goes from strange
to sinister.

[violin music]

Following the military coup
in 1973,

Colonia Dignidad
became a torture camp...

a training camp for
the secret service, the DINA.

Complete with torture school,
an arms smuggling center,

a center for alternative
arms production...

and a place for the DINA

to communicate
with the outside world.

[narrator] This part
of Colonia Dignidad

is sealed off
with a death strip.

The underground torture chambers
are well hidden.

So that from the outside,

it looks like a farm.

Anyone who wants to be fooled,
could be.

I was impressed by the compound.

It impressed me because somehow

I'm a dreamer.

I'd always dreamed
of setting up a center
for my comrades.

I wanted to give them
the chance to relax

and take a break
from their fight.

I'd been thinking
about something like that.

[suspenseful music]

[narrator] Far from being
just a recuperation center
for Nazis,

Colonia Dignidad
is also used to produce

biological and chemical weapons.

Chile's intelligence service,

needs untraceable,
deadly toxins.

[John]
There is a shortlist of people

that have been confirmed

to have been murdered

using... sarin gas.

[narrator] A German doctor
is one of those experimenting
at Colonia Dignidad.

[Friedrich] The doctor at
Colonia Dignidad, Hartmut Hopp,

who fled the Chilean courts
to Krefeld

at a devil's workshop
containing some

four hundred toxins.

Among them
were poisons to inhale...

poisons deadly to the touch...

poisons that kill
when consumed with food.

It was a wild arsenal
and nobody knows exactly

who fell prey
to those substances.

[unsettling music]

[narrator] The Cold War Nazis
don't only support Pinochet

but other dictators
in South America as well.

The CIA
gives them free reign.

[dramatic music]

[narrator] In 1980, the military
stages a coup in Bolivia.

Known as the 'Cocaine Coup'

it brings the mafia

under General Garcia Meza,
to power.

[speaking Spanish]

Pulling the strings
in the background
is a German...

Nazi general, Klaus Barbie,

a fascist companion,
waxes lyrical.

I met him when I was in Bolivia.

He's a great character.

Very intelligent, very capable,
great integrity.

[dramatic music]

[narrator] Klaus Barbie,
had won himself the name

'The Butcher of Lyon'

for his brutal treatment
of members of the resistance

opposing German occupation
during World War II.

After the war...

Barbie was hired

by the American
intelligence services.

[Christopher]
There were different ways

that senior SS and SD officers
survived the war.

But they do share
a common pattern.

And the pattern
is something that I call

'entrepreneurism'

or 'intelligence
entrepreneurism'

in which they take

whatever assets they
can lay there hands on...

and attempt to sell these...

uh, or to...

Encourage intelligence services
to invest in them.

[suspenseful music]

[gunshot]

[narrator] Klaus Barbie,
is a valuable

agent for the Americans.

He uses his knowledge of
Communists and the resistance

to buy his own freedom.

[Andreas] The Americans
did everything they could

to ensure that
the resistance fighters

didn't come to power
after the war.

And Barbie
was important for them

because he was able
to show the Americans

that he knew the network
of collaborators

who had worked with the Germans

in the occupied areas

and in Vichy.

It made him really valuable.

With this he had an insight
into the blackmail-ability

of the entire
French political scene.

[dramatic music]

[narrator] The Americans
initially hide

the war criminals in Germany

and then in South America.

[Christopher] They understood
particularly the...

bloody politics...

of certain types
of intelligence.

They understood colonial war.

They had a mentality that was...

well-suited for colonial war,

it's because they...

uh...

believed themselves to be...

uh...

when all is said and done,

uber ... superior.

Um...

and thus, were willing

to take the lives of a great
many people

that they considered
to be inferior
for racial or ethnic reasons.

[narrator] Barbie
ultimately becomes

an intelligence service adviser

in South America.

In the seventies
Operation Condor begins.

[Christopher]
The American Operation Condor,

was an alliance,
if you will,

between the
intelligence agencies of

several South
American governments

that at that time
were run by fascist

or extreme right-wing parties...

with well documented histories
of disappearances,

abuse, murder of prisoners
and so forth.

And that those regimes...

found Klaus Barbie,

to be a very
compatible agent...

for their operations.

[narrator] A total
of 50,000 people,

from the alliance nations
are murdered.

Once again,
the CIA is involved.

[suspenseful music]

[John] I call it
the red light...

green light...

uh, phenomenon.

Uh, the United States

was publicly saying,

defending... human rights...

um... and privately

telling these regimes

that what they
were doing was okay.

Until they defeated the left,
they should go ahead and do it.

[narrator] Secretary
of State, Henry Kissinger,
was seen as a driving force

behind the CIA policy.

France, Chile and Argentina,

summon him to answer questions

about human rights violations.

In 2007, Uruguay requests
his extradition.

It gradually becomes clear

Kissinger was covering
for Operation Condor,

even for the death squads.

Among them,
is a well-known fascist,

Stefano Delle Chiaie
in Bolivia,

leading a troop of mercenaries.

[Friedrich]
These 'Grooms of Death'
as they were called,

supported the Cocaine Mafia

that staged
the coup in Bolivia.

And they reaped the rewards.

They surged through many

Latin American countries

starting counter-revolutions.

Killing, torturing

and turning a profit
in the process.

[narrator] The Grooms
of Death are financed
by the cocaine trade,

a sector entwined
with secret services worldwide.

[dramatic music]

The drugs trade
is an ideal source of money.

Everything is top secret...

and those involved
can be blackmailed.

[Andreas] The war against drugs
is basically a means

of tricking the public.

Because the real drug trade

is run by privileged
individuals.

People who are protected

by the intelligence services.

Who can grow any crop they like,

without any risk.

And sell them to America,
Europe, wherever.

The profit margin
is astronomical.

And the intelligence services
siphon off what they need

for their operations.

[narrator] Klaus Barbie
perfected

the cocaine trade in Bolivia...

among other things.

Barbie made
impressions systematic.

He abolished the system
of arbitrary beating
and brutality.

And introduced
systematic torture

and an organized
correctional system.

And that was his doom.

Because it meant people
became aware of him.

And then he was extradited.

[narrator] In Lyon in May 1987,

four years after
his extradition,

Klaus Barbie was sentenced
to lifelong imprisonment.

He died in prison in 1991.

Very few Nazis
were ever sentenced.

Paul Dickopf,
the long serving president
of the BKA...

enjoyed the trust
of leading politicians,

until his death.

Although a former SS man
and Nazi spy...

Dickopf was hired
by the Americans,
even before the end of the war.

At some point he saw

Germany wasn't going to win,

so he hung his flag in the wind

and decided it was time
to switch sides.

[narrator] His friend,
Francois Genoud,

another Nazi agent,
helps him.

They know each other
from Switzerland

where they even lived together.

[suspenseful music]

Genoud was a major banker,

a convinced Nazi
and a big fan of Hitler's.

And he was probably
the one who saved

Nazi and SS fortunes,
after 1945.

Genoud published
Goebbels Diaries,

and made a lot of money,
as a result.

He uses the proceeds
to finance the defense
for Adolf Eichmann...

and Klaus Barbie.

He's friends with
the terrorists, Carlos...

and Wadie Haddad...

who was also a KGB agent...

and is responsible
for numerous brutal attacks.

But Dickopf's connection
don't damage his career.

On the contrary...

the CIA and its head...

advance his career.

His connection to the American

intelligence services

contributed to him

being employed in the German
Interior Ministry.

And then, leading the BKA...

Germany's federal office
of criminal investigation.

Even though
he had an SS background.

And I think...

although it is just
my opinion...

that there was a CIA objective
behind his promotion.

I think... they wanted
to see him in such a position.

[suspenseful music]

[narrator] Dickopf
passed on information

about German politics...

especially concerning
Willy Brandt.

In confidential meetings...

the BKA president

was partied to top
secret intelligence...

regarding Brandt's, Ostpolitik.

It was information
from a government

who's policy of detente...

was viewed with skepticism
in the US.

How much did Paul Dickopf
really know?

[speaking German]

He took part
in ministry meetings

and was involved
at a political level.

But to what extent
he compromised

the sovereignty of West Germany

in terms of what he gave away...

no one can say.

Dickopf is a window

into the highest

level security

and intelligence issues

as viewed by
the German government
of that period.

This is...

high level, elite...

insight into...

the security apparatus
of a different country.

[narrator] In CIA files,

Dickopf is described
as a unilateral agent...

as working
exclusively for one side.

Was he simply a traitor?

I have a problem
with the word 'traitor'

in the context of Dickopf

because for him
it was everyday life.

He was committed to both sides.

There was almost
certainly a kind of gratitude

towards the Americans as well.

[piano music]

[narrator] How badly
did Dickopf damage Germany?

In 1972,
his friend, Genoud

helps to hijack a Lufthansa jet.

The action generates
fifteen million marks

in ransom
for Palestinian coffers.

Money that would be used
for further terrorist activity.

In 1972, Genoud also finances
the Munich massacre

of the Israeli Olympic team.

The sporting event,
which is supposed to be

Germany's big,
prestigious moment...

becomes one of the country's
biggest ever catastrophes...

when eleven Israeli athletes...

are murdered
as the world looks on.

[loud explosion]

Genoud was close to Middle East
terrorist circles.

Some of which worked

with Mosat.

It's a very,
very strange structure.

[narrator] As head of Interpol,
Dickopf is supposed to fight

such terrorists financed
by his friend, Genoud.

During his time in office...

there's a rise in the number of
attacks and hijackings.

But Dickopf says that Interpol
is powerless to stop them.

You know that Article
three of our statute,

prevents the organization

from any direct intervention.

But that should
encourage other countries

to be much more active

in sharing of intelligence.

[interviewer] So, just because

Interpol can't intervene...

it doesn't mean other countries

can't take bilateral action.

Bilaterally and multilaterally.

They can do whatever they want,

as long as they
don't involve Interpol.

At the same time as fifteen
and later thirty planes

were being hijacked
in a single year...

the Western states decide
that solving terrorist crimes
is not Interpol's job.

It's outrageous.

Dickopf was in contact
with Genoud...

who he's always meeting up with.

And Genoud finances
the people
who hijacked the planes.

And at the same time
Interpol says,
"It's not our job."

[narrator] Did the CIA know

about Dickopf's
contacts with Genoud?

Documents prove that they did.

Dickopf himself
told the CIA,

that he had known him
since the World War II.

[suspenseful music]

But the open
files in Washington...

don't seem to contain
all the information the CIA

claimed from Dickopf
and other Nazis.

[Christopher]
The CIA had a conscious,
deliberate campaign

that was based in their general
council's office...

to obstruct

the release of these records

to the maximum extent possible.

And most particularly
to obstruct the release
of records that dealt with...

uh, relationships between
informants and agents...

and the CIA.

Which was the exact
point of this, okay?

[narrator] Christopher Simpson
was a member
of the commission...

that negotiated with the CIA...

over the release
of the Nazi files.

His experiences...

are sobering.

[Christopher]
In one of the most important
categories that fits...

into that description...

is what's called foreign
government information.

And that's information
in which they have obtained...

either legally...

or illegally...

from a separate government...

about that government's affairs.

This is why...

uh... the...

and you'll see this...
in a Skorzeny file,

you'll see it
in the Dickopf file,

you'll see it
in the Klaus Barbie file...

that to this day...

um...

most people aren't familiar
with this reality

but there are nevertheless

continued to be
withheld records...

in those files.

[narrator] This policy
prevents historians
and journalists,

from getting to the bottom

of important
espionage operations.

The CIA is a global service

with a huge budget

and incredible possibilities.

Because it also benefits

from the drugs trade.

And it exerts influence
in all kinds of countries.

All over Europe,
it influences politics,

the perception of the enemy...

public opinion.

It engages
in psychological warfare.

So, if I have an organization

like the CIA, at my disposal...

I can push a democracy
in the way the Italian
democracy was pushed.

And in the way
that certain political processes
might have been influenced.

An intelligence service,
is not the boy scouts.

[narrator] Many
intelligence service activities

from the Cold War era
has still not been opened
to public scrutiny.

This includes the operations...

which turned war
criminals and fascists...

into collaborators.

[ending music]