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(suspenseful music)
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The BKA,
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the German Federal Police in Wiesbaden.
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For six years the agency is run by a man integral
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to its inception, Paul Dickopf.
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(Paul chattering)
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A top civil servant, with a seemingly clean record,
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he claims he opposed the Nazis.
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Until 1971, during Willy Brandt's time as chancellor,
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he is the top criminologist in West Germany.
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(suspenseful music)
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(Dieter speaking in foreign language)
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{\an8}Anyone who criticized him,
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{\an8}or posed any kind of threat to him,
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{\an8}was never allowed to forget it.
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He held a grudge and destroyed such people.
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Dickopf doesn't only forge a career
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for himself in West Germany.
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In 1968 he becomes head of Interpol.
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It's now his job to fight crime on an international scale.
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(Dieter speaking in foreign language)
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When Dickopf left,
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Genscher, his Interior Minister of the time,
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held him out as an example to police all over Germany.
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After Dickopf's death, in 1973,
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staff researching files to compile his obituary
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make an astonishing find.
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They turn up documents outing Dickopf as a staunch Nazi.
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His lifelong lie finally comes to light.
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Dickopf was not only a member of the SS and a Nazi spy.
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Shortly before the end of the war,
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he switched sides to start working
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as an agent for the Americans.
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Numerous CIA documents given an insight
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into the work of Caravel, which was Dickopf's CIA code name.
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The highest ranking member of the German police
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sold confidential information from the Bahn government.
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Chancellor Willy Brandt and his Ostpolitik
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was of particular interest to the Americans.
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And Dickopf readily provided the information
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as did many other Nazis, during the Cold War.
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They became willing helpers, spies,
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because American intelligence services
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used their pasts to blackmail them.
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(people chattering)
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{\an8}(Wilhelm speaking in foreign language)
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{\an8}The Americans were never very bothered
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{\an8}if the people they needed have closes ties
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to mass murderers, or extremists, or terrorists.
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The ends justified the means.
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American intelligence services
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faced a new enemy, communism.
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The US enlisted former Nazis as spies.
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There was no attempt to punish them for their war crimes.
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As the Cold War grew hot,
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{\an8}these Nazi collaborators became pawns
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{\an8}of Western intelligence services,
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for a variety of both psychological warfare type missions,
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covert operations, and this type of thing.
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Only now, are Secret Service files
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from the Cold War, accessible.
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And they contain documents about Nazis,
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who became willing CIA spies.
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Another case, that has recently surfaced,
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is that of Eugen Steinle, a die-hard Nazi
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who led firing squads in the Soviet Union.
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Steinle was thought to be among those killed
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when a Lufthansa plane crashed near Nuremberg,
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on the 20th of April, 1945.
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Eyewitnesses saw the burning plane in the sky.
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And the crash sight is still visible
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in the Piesenkofen Forest today.
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At the time, locals collected up everything
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they found around the wreckage.
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One item recovered was a briefcase
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containing documents and IDs.
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Among them, was one belonging to Steinle.
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The briefcase was taken
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to the local Nazi commander's office.
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A few days later US troops marched into the area.
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And the briefcase was seized
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by members of the army's Secret Service.
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The Americans were looking for Nazis
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they could use for their own purposes.
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And every personal detail would help them in their search.
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They suspected Steinle was still alive.
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CIA documents, listing the contents of the briefcase,
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make it possible to reconstruct what really happened.
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The Lufthansa plane takes off from Tempelhof
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on April the 20th, 1945,
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while the Battle for Berlin is raging.
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Those on board know it's only a matter of time
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before the Russians and the Western Allies, take power.
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There are more than 20 passengers on the Condor,
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among them, a number of men in leather overcoats.
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The captain takes off under the cover of darkness.
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The planned destination is Spain with a fuel stop in Munich.
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But the weather is bad.
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(Karl speaking in foreign language)
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{\an8}I can still remember my father telling us
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{\an8}over breakfast about a low-flying plane
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{\an8}making such a racket.
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(Maria speaking in foreign language)
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A friend lives very near to here
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{\an8}and that evening, a burning plane flew over her roof.
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Panic-stricken, her mother grabbed hold of both the children
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and threw them and herself to the ground.
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She said that since the father had died in the war,
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the three of them should die together.
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The plane crashes
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in a forest with no survivors.
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Were there high-ranking Nazis on-board the Condor,
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trying to get to Spain?
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American intelligence flies the briefcase
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and the documents to the US.
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The agents in Washington know the end of the war
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will herald a new chapter
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in the confrontation of the superpowers.
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And, in order to secure an advantage,
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they will recruit former, top Nazis.
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They strike it lucky.
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One man in the files is of particular interest
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to the Americans, SS-Standartenfuhrer Steinle.
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Their research tells them he was responsible
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for mass murders in Russia.
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The agents suspect he is still alive
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as a number of witnesses report having seen him,
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after the crash.
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Locals near the crash sight are questioned again.
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As a war criminal, Steinle is valuable to the Americans.
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It was impossible
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{\an8}to systematically recruit intelligence agents
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{\an8}without systematically recruiting war criminals.
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Those things went together.
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They launch a manhunt across Germany
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for Eugen Steinle who fled to his home in the Black Forest.
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The net closes and in autumn, 1945,
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the former SS intelligence officer
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turns himself in for interrogation.
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He knows his only chance is to tell the truth.
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{\an8}A defector, who has something to hide,
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{\an8}murders, for example, can be blackmailed.
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And is therefore malleable in the hands of his new bosses.
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Steinle collaborates.
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His testimony on the documents from the briefcase
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help the Americans to uncover an entire network
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of German spies in Spain.
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It consists of dozens of ex-Nazis,
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who followed the collapse of the Third Reich,
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are already working on their next crazy idea,
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the Fourth Reich, which translates to worldwide fascism.
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The Americans observe them
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and recruit the Spanish players to work on their behalf.
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Following his interrogation,
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Steinle is sentenced to death by hanging.
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But is then, surprisingly pardoned.
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Did the Americans enlist him and influence the verdict?
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There is no proof as important files are missing
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from the US interrogation center in Oberursel.
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Nazis like Dickopf and Steinle had become agents.
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But the US intelligence services want more than just spies,
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they want Nazi traitors.
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Right up until the war was over
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the Allies believed the Nazis had an Alpine redoubt.
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Even now the myth of missing Nazi gold
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still lures treasure hunters to the area.
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But do these treasures really exist?
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Towards the end of the war German industry made plans
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to secure its capital in the event of defeat.
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This was very dangerous, to have such discussions.
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{\an8}But nevertheless, the alternative of losing everything
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{\an8}when Hitler was finally dead,
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however that exactly happened, was even more dangerous.
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So they went ahead with this.
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And they started to draw up plans,
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some of which still exist,
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on how they would attempt
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to reconstitute Germany after Hitler left.
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These activities were no secret
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to the Allied intelligence services.
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They launched
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a large-scale international surveillance operation
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code named Safe Haven.
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Safe Haven was the name of a US Government program
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{\an8}whose task it was to track and seize assets
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that the Nazis had seized, had looted, from Europe
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and were attempting to distribute around the world,
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in order to, for use after 1945.
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The Americans knew such plans had been hatched
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by industry and even in the Reich chancery.
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They were also aware of a network
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of foreign companies set up to keep funds safe.
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In Monaco, in particular,
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numerous shell corporations had access to millions.
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One company was a broadcaster
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on whose board sat the then unknown Kurt Georg Kiesinger.
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He would eventually become chancellor of West Germany.
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The fact that he worked
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for the Foreign and Propaganda Ministries,
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during the Third Reich, didn't adversely affect his career.
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Allied agents submitted detailed reports
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about financial transfers.
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Sometimes, they were even able
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to smuggle people into meetings.
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This espionage operation was led by Allan Dallas,
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then a US agent in Switzerland,
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who later rose to be head of the CIA.
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He knew how to use his knowledge
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of the Nazi's financial doings
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to benefit his career in Washington.
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When a bomb attack destroys the Berlin Reichsbank
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in March 1945,
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gold and currency reserves are no longer secure.
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It's time to put the plan
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into action quickly and thoroughly.
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Everything is meticulously noted and checked
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as 360 tons of gold and 300 tons of silver and banknotes
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are loaded up and taken away.
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Documents relating to the Reichsbank's gold
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remain undiscovered in the German Central Bank
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for more than 60 years
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when Karl Bernd Esser finally finds them.
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{\an8}All the gold that was in the Reichsbank
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{\an8}was moved to Merkers or to certain depots in Bavaria.
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Now the Americans see their chance.
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Thanks to Operation Safe Haven
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they know exactly where the gold is stored.
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They arrive in the Soviet occupation zone
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at the Merker's salt line in the eastern state of Thuringia
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before the Soviets themselves.
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They declare the Reichsbank gold to be Nazi loot
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and take it with them.
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They also seize other treasures they find there,
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including Italian gold reserves
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and gold from a national bank for Bohemia and Moravia.
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(suspenseful music)
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Were the hiding places in the Alps
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also cleared out long ago?
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(Karl speaking in foreign language)
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You definitely won't find any gold
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in Bavaria today.
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There was a settlement document stating
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how much gold the Reichsbank deposited
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in the different depots.
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These depots were all found largely by the Americans,
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who even went across into the Soviet zone to Merkers
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and quickly emptied the main depot there.
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Karl Bernd Esser says it was an act of theft
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because it essentially means the Germans twice repaid
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their Marshall Plan loan.
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Once with the Reichsbank's gold and once in Deutsche marks.
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(suspenseful music)
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(Karl speaking in foreign language)
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The Marshall Plan
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was a successful American invention
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{\an8}of how to trick friends without them realizing it.
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{\an8}If I take a thousand euros from you and you don't notice
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and then I say, "I'll lend you a thousand euros
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and you pay it back with a bit of interest."
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You'd think, "What a nice gesture."
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But in reality, I took a thousand euros from you already,
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you just didn't notice.
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(dramatic music)
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The US intelligence services
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don't only use their knowledge
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and their treasures in Germany,
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but also recruit Italian fascists during the Cold War.
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The idea is that they will fight communism
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on America's behalf.
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(dramatic music)
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(explosion booming)
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Starting the 1960s a series of attacks
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in Italy claim hundreds of lives.
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The violence is initially blamed on left-wingers
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but it's now known to have been the work
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of right-wing radicals.
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Stefano Delle Chiaie is head of the new Reich party.
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He is repeatedly accused of terrorist activity
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but is never convicted.
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(Stefano speaking in foreign language)
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Our political position
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{\an8}was very simple and quite clear.
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{\an8}It was based on historical experience,
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{\an8}for which we had great respect and that was fascism.
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We tried to apply basic fascist values
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to the reality surrounding us.
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(water splashing)
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In 1970, the fascist revolutionaries
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and their backers want to stage a coup in Italy
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and stamp out the left-wing parties.
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They discuss their plans with the CIA.
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(Alessandro speaking in foreign language)
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{\an8}We know the CIA was informed
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{\an8}about these plans.
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On December the 7th, Delle Chiaie supporters,
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the far-right Avanguardia Nazionale
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and parts of the military set their plan in motion.
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Their first targets are the state broadcaster
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and government buildings.
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The revolutionaries around Stefano Delle Chiaie
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believe they are pulling the strings.
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But the attempted coup
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is actually being driven from elsewhere.
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Although Delle Chiaie, still proudly claims responsibility.
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(Stefano speaking in foreign language)
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I was responsible for the coup,
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{\an8}morally and politically,
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even if I wasn't in Italy at the time.
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{\an8}The commandant had prepared a perfect plan
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which would have triggered a chain of commands,
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starting at the Ministry of Defense.
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Everything was prepared and ready.
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And, had the plan been activated,
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military units would have been mobilized
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and would've taken control
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of every strategic site in the country.
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The fight against the left-wing
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has a long history in Italy.
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And the US intelligence services have been involved
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from the very beginning.
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Its influence begins with the invasion of Sicily,
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when Allied soldiers fight and beat the Axis powers.
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(suspenseful music)
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But some Italian forces don't give up
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and continue to fight on the side of the Germans until 1945.
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One unit in particular is feared,
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the Decima Flottiglia MAS,
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the world's first frogman commander.
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The Allies both fear and admire their daring operations.
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The leader of the unit is Valerio Borghese,
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the Black Prince.
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(Alessandro speaking in foreign language)
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The Decima MAS, Prince Borghese,
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{\an8}was probably the best trained and most highly motivated unit
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{\an8}in the entire fascist republic.
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(suspenseful music)
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It takes another two years
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before World War II is won in Italy.
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And when the Americans finally march into Rome,
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they are welcomed as liberators,
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even by the pope who shares the US fear
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of a shift to the left in Italy.
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(pope speaking in foreign language)
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(crowd singing in foreign language)
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Because the communists are gaining popularity.
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(crowd singing in foreign language)
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(Alessandro speaking in foreign language)
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The aim of the Americans was
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{\an8}to keep the communists out of the government.
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{\an8}To keep them away from power.
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CIA agent, James Jesus Angleton,
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starts preparing a coup in the event
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that the communists win the Italian elections.
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(Alessandro speaking in foreign language)
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Angleton had excellent connections in Italy.
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He spoke Italian, even with the Vatican,
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which back then, perhaps even now,
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has the most efficient intelligence service in the world.
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Angleton and Borghese became good friends.
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Borghese came from the fascist movement
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and founded the Fronte Nazionale
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as a way of bundling the different right-wing movements.
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It was all of the means of preventing shift to the left
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because the left parties were gaining strength in Italy.
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(audience applauding)
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The communists are the archenemies of Borghese,
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who almost killed him at the end of the war.
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To act against the communists the CIA enlists Borghese.
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(mysterious music)
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(audience applauding)
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Angleton succeeded in convincing the rest
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{\an8}of the US government that the elections of 1947, 1948
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{\an8}in Italy would lead to a communist government in Italy.
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And so therefore the Americans
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should sink millions of dollars
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into disrupting these elections
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and disrupting particularly the left-wing candidates
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in these elections.
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Operation Safe Haven pays off.
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The Americans used seized Nazi loot
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to finance Angleton's activities against Italy's communists.
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The seized riches will never be returned
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to the victims or their relatives.
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The money was money, frequently,
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that had been looted from Europe's Jews.
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Why?
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The exchange stabilization fund was set up early
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during World War II
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to seize Nazi assets in international trade.
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It was part of the blockade of Germany.
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Angleton sets up a partisan army.
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This rarely seen footage shows training.
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Many of the partisans are battle-tested fascists
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from Borghese's frogmen.
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Gladio, as the unit was called,
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is under the exclusive command of the CIA.
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(gun firing)
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In the event that Italy democratically voted
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to become socialists, there would be stay-behind networks,
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underground elements that were armed and paid
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and ideologically prepared to attempt
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to overturn that democratically elected government.
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But Gladio was called off
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because the communists lost the first post-war elections.
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The mood is tense as the Soviets are forced to accept
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that Italy now belongs to the US fear of control.
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And any hopes of a third way are dashed by Yalta.
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(Alessandro speaking in foreign language)
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Yalta meant the victors, or better said,
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{\an8}Russia, Great Britain and the US signed a treaty
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{\an8}in which they divided the world into future areas
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of influence and shared it out amongst themselves.
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Most specifically, they divided up Europe.
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The treaty remained unchanged
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until the collapse of the Soviet Union,
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until the fall of the Berlin wall in the '80s.
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Yalta puts Italy under US influence.
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It's clear that in matters relating
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to their political and strategic interests
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the Americans will do what they see fit.
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And that they will not create space
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between the blocks for a third power.
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(Alessandro speaking in foreign language)
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In the post-Yalta world in which the borders
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of the different blocks were carefully adhered to,
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the respective hegemonic powers crushed any uprising.
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That went for Hungary in 1956
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and even more so for Berlin in 1953.
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And it went for every other revolt.
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And terrorism in Italy and Germany
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really only served one purpose,
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it was to stabilize the political status quo.
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(suspenseful music)
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As to the 1978 murder
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of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro,
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he was kidnapped and shot by the Red Brigades.
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But numerous agents and intelligence services
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were also involved in the killing.
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Many Italians believed Moro was murdered
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because he wanted a third way.
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Other powers were also involved in the 1970 attempted coup.
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Borghese and Delle Chiaie were just puppets.
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(suspenseful music)
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(Alessandro speaking in foreign language)
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{\an8}We know of a telephone call with Borghese
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{\an8}that took place between 1:00 and 2:00 in the morning.
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And then the coup was stopped.
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We also know that this call was
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with a high ranking politician.
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In a written statement he made before his death,
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Borghese claimed that one
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of Andreotti's confidantes, Bana Bea,
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had called him and that he was acting on the instructions
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of Andreotti who was the American's puppet at the time.
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The ones really pulling the strings
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are high ranking Italians.
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Right-wing politician Giulio Andreotti
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who was later prime minister seven times.
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And Licio Gelli, head of the P2 Freemasons Lodge
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and American agent.
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(suspenseful music)
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(Stefano speaking in foreign language)
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{\an8}They started to spread all kinds of lies.
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{\an8}We're talking now about Gelli, who blew off the coup.
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We're talking about Andreotti who backed him
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and who's still withholding important facts.
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For example, that his friend, the public prosecutor
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of the coup of the charter Borghese,
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who was also Andreotti's puppet requested 28 years
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in prison for me and my comrades.
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You have to be careful with friends like that.
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(suspenseful music)
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During the attempted coup
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the US military flexed its muscles.
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Shortly beforehand, the Sixth US Fleet was allegedly put
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on a state of alert.
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Hoping to impress the CIA,
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Gelli and Andreotti presented themselves to the Americans,
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as influential figures capable of both mobilizing
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and calling off military coups.
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(dramatic music)
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Fascists such as Borghese and Delle Chiaie
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have to go underground.
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The US intelligence services choose South America
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as the most suitable place.
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There, in their search for power,
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the fascists join forces with dictators.
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(Stefano speaking in foreign language)
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{\an8}Clearly we wanted to implement our ideology,
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{\an8}and our conviction there.
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{\an8}And our fight for fascism, fell on more fertile ground
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in Latin America than elsewhere.
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Many parties in Latin America had fascist
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or national socialist roots.
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But Chile is different.
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In 1971, Socialist Salvador Allende is elected to power.
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His Marxist politics make him enemies
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and many enthusiastic followers.
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This was perceived by the United States
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{\an8}as a tremendous threat.
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{\an8}Because if peaceful revolution were to take hold
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that would greatly weaken
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the United States ideological hold on South America.
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Under the instruction
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of US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger,
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the CIA becomes active in Chile.
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The staunch anti-communist is not content
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to bank on Allende losing the next elections.
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In September, 1973, General Pinochet,
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supported by Italian fascists, stages a military coup.
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The Americans leave them to it.
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The two sides, like Pinochet, want to wipe out communism.
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(ominous music)
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(Stefano speaking in foreign language)
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We were in contact
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{\an8}with Chilean comrades before the coup in Chile.
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In 1974, Commandant Borghese and I were in Santiago,
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where we met President Pinochet.
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We started working closely together.
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When we arrived in Chile,
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we were greeted by President Pinochet.
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In 1975, the fascists gather in Madrid
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to attend the funeral of a mutual and like-minded friend,
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Spanish dictator, Francisco Franco.
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It's here that the cooperation between Italian fascists
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and the Chilean intelligence service, DINA, is sealed.
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The ringleader is none other than Stefano Delle Chiaie.
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But again, his involvement
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in the ensuing crimes is never proven.
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The first meeting of collaborators but it's not the last.
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Pinochet himself, meets with these terrorists
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{\an8}who have just pulled off this assassination.
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{\an8}And Monroe Contreras is there
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and everybody is having a kind of right-wing love fest.
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They then, Stefano Delle Chiaie are given permission,
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apparently at that meeting
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that they can set up headquarters in Chile.
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So the Italians then began to collaborate with DINA.
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There follows a series of murders.
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(suspenseful music)
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(explosion booming)
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Among the targets is Allende's former Foreign Minister,
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Orlando Letelier, in Washington.
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But terrorism on home turf is too much
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for the US which reigns Pinochet in.
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(suspenseful music)
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They talked about the weakness of the United States
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and its ability to defeat the communist menace
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{\an8}and the desire of the military governments
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{\an8}in Latin America take the leadership internationally
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to defeat the communist movement worldwide.
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The scope of this is mind-blowing.
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They actually refer to it as World War III.
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Pinochet's junta prepares for this war.
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(Friedrich speaking in foreign language)
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It included the wish to own toxic gasses,
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the production of biological weapons
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and prisoners in Chile were killed during trials.
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{\an8}And the production of toxic gasses, sarin and mustard gas.
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(men singing in foreign language)
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The research laboratory for inhuman experiments
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is located at Colonia Dignidad.
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The hamlet goes from strange to sinister.
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(gentle music)
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(Friedrich speaking in foreign language)
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Following the military coup of 1973,
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Colonia Dignidad became a torture camp,
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a training camp for the secret service, the DINA.
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Complete with torture school, an arms smuggling center,
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a center for alternative arms production
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and a place for the DINA
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to communicate with the outside world.
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This part of Colonia Dignidad
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is sealed off with a death strip.
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The underground torture chambers are well hidden
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so that from the outside, it looks like a farm.
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Anyone who wants to be fooled, could be.
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(Stefano speaking in foreign language)
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{\an8}I was impressed by the compound.
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{\an8}It impressed me because somehow I'm a dreamer.
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I'd always dreamed of setting up a center for my comrades.
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I wanted to give them the chance to relax
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and take a break from their fight.
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I'd been thinking about something like that.
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(suspenseful music)
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Far from being just a recuperation center
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for Nazis, Colonia Dignidad is also used
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to produce biological and chemical weapons.
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Chile's intelligence service
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needs untraceable, deadly toxins.
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{\an8}There is a shortlist of people that have been confirmed
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{\an8}to have been murdered using sarin gas.
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A German doctor is one
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of those experimenting at Colonia Dignidad.
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(Friedrich speaking in foreign language)
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The doctor at Colonia Dignidad, Hartmut Hopp,
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who fled the Chilean courts to Krefeld
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{\an8}had a devil's workshop containing some 400 toxins.
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Among them were poisons to inhale,
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poisons deadly to the touch,
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poisons that kill when consumed with food.
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It was a wild arsenal and nobody knows exactly
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who fell prey to those substances.
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(dramatic music)
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The Cold War Nazis don't only support Pinochet
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but other dictators in South America as well.
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The CIA gives them free reign.
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(dramatic music)
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(people chattering)
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In 1980, the military stages a coup in Bolivia.
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Known as the Cocaine Coup it brings the mafia,
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under General Garcia Meza, to power.
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(Garcia speaking in foreign language)
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Pulling the strings in the background
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is a German, Nazi general Klaus Barbie.
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A fascist companion, waxes lyrical.
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(Stefano speaking in foreign language)
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I met him when I was in Bolivia.
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He's a great character.
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Very intelligent, very capable, great integrity.
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(dramatic music)
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Klaus Barbie, had won himself the name,
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The Butcher of Lyon, for his brutal treatment
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of members of the resistance opposing German occupation
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during World War II.
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(dramatic music)
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After the war, Barbie was hired
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by the American intelligence services.
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There were different ways
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that senior SS and SD officers survived the war.
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But they do share a common pattern.
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{\an8}And the pattern is something that I call entrepreneurism
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{\an8}or intelligence entrepreneurism,
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in which they take whatever assets
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they can lay there hands on and attempt to sell these
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or to encourage intelligence services to invest in them.
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(suspenseful music)
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(gun firing)
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Klaus Barbie is a valuable agent
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for the Americans.
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He uses his knowledge of communists
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and the resistance to buy his own freedom.
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(Andreas speaking in foreign language)
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00:36:23,290 --> 00:36:25,180
The Americans did everything they could
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to ensure that the resistance fighters didn't come
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to power after the war.
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And Barbie was important for them
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because he was able to show the Americans
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that he knew the network of collaborators
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00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:37,200
{\an8}who had worked with the Germans
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00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,880
{\an8}in the occupied areas and in Vichy.
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{\an8}It made him really valuable.
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00:36:41,650 --> 00:36:44,380
With this he had an insight into the blackmail-ability
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00:36:44,380 --> 00:36:46,613
of the entire French political scene.
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(dramatic music)
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00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,490
The Americans initially hide the war criminals
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00:36:53,490 --> 00:36:56,113
in Germany and then in South America.
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00:37:00,030 --> 00:37:04,810
They understood particularly the bloody politics
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of certain types of intelligence.
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00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,690
{\an8}They understood colonial war.
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00:37:09,690 --> 00:37:13,690
They had a mentality that was well-suited for colonial war,
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00:37:13,690 --> 00:37:18,653
it's because they believed themselves to be,
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00:37:20,615 --> 00:37:23,213
when all is said and done, uber superior.
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00:37:25,979 --> 00:37:28,030
And thus, were willing to take the lives
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of a great many people that they considered
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00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:34,213
to be inferior for racial or ethnic reasons.
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00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,400
Barbie ultimately becomes
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00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,993
an intelligence service adviser in South America.
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00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:44,023
In the '70s Operation Condor begins.
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The American Operation Condor, was a alliance,
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00:37:49,130 --> 00:37:52,540
if you will, between the intelligence agencies
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00:37:52,540 --> 00:37:54,920
of several South American governments
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00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,780
that at that time were run by fascist
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00:37:57,780 --> 00:38:01,810
or extreme right-wing parties with well documented histories
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00:38:01,810 --> 00:38:05,723
of disappearances, abuse, murder of prisoners and so forth.
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00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:10,970
And that those regimes found Klaus Barbie
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00:38:10,970 --> 00:38:15,970
to be a very compatible agent for their operations.
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00:38:16,180 --> 00:38:17,890
A total of 50,000 people
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00:38:17,890 --> 00:38:19,913
from the alliance nations are murdered.
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00:38:20,820 --> 00:38:23,746
Once again, the CIA is involved.
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00:38:23,746 --> 00:38:26,180
(suspenseful music)
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I call it the red light green light phenomenon.
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{\an8}The United States was publicly
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{\an8}defending human rights and privately telling these regimes
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that what they were doing was okay.
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Until they defeated the left,
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they should go ahead and do it.
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00:38:46,650 --> 00:38:48,680
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was seen
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as a driving force behind the CIA policy.
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00:38:51,620 --> 00:38:53,920
France, Chile and Argentina summon him
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00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,860
to answer questions about human rights violations.
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00:38:56,860 --> 00:39:00,970
In 2007, Uruguay requests his extradition.
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00:39:00,970 --> 00:39:03,630
It gradually becomes clear Kissinger was covering
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00:39:03,630 --> 00:39:07,220
for Operation Condor, even for the death squads.
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00:39:07,220 --> 00:39:09,310
Among them, is a well-known fascist,
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00:39:09,310 --> 00:39:11,670
Stefano Delle Chiaie in Bolivia,
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00:39:11,670 --> 00:39:13,333
leading a troop of mercenaries.
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00:39:15,211 --> 00:39:16,413
(Friedrich speaking in foreign language)
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These Grooms of Death, as they were called,
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supported the Cocaine Mafia that staged the coup in Bolivia.
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{\an8}And they reaped the rewards.
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{\an8}They surged through many Latin American countries
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starting counter-revolutions.
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Killing, torturing and turning a profit in the process.
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The Grooms of Death are financed
741
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by the cocaine trade,
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a sector entwined with secret services worldwide.
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(dramatic music)
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The drugs trade is an ideal source of money.
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Everything is top secret
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00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,743
and those involved can be blackmailed.
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00:39:57,384 --> 00:40:00,384
(suspenseful music)
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(Andreas speaking in foreign language)
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The war against drugs is basically a means
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of tricking the public.
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Because the real drug trade is run
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{\an8}by privileged individuals.
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{\an8}People who are protected by the intelligence services,
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{\an8}who can grow any crop they like, without any risk
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and sell them in America, Europe, wherever.
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The profit margin is astronomical.
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00:40:38,591 --> 00:40:40,790
And the intelligence services siphon off
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what they need for their operations.
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00:40:46,270 --> 00:40:48,480
Klaus Barbie perfected the cocaine trade
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in Bolivia among other things.
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(Friedrich speaking in foreign language)
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00:40:55,293 --> 00:40:57,060
Barbie made impressions systematic.
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He abolished the system of arbitrary beating and brutality
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and introduced systematic torture
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and an organized correctional system.
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And that was his doom.
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Because it meant people became aware of him.
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And then he was extradited.
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In Lyon in May 1987,
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four years after his extradition,
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Klaus Barbie was sentenced to lifelong imprisonment.
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00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,797
He died in prison in 1991.
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(dramatic music)
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00:41:28,972 --> 00:41:32,500
(suspenseful music)
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Very few Nazis were ever sentenced.
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00:41:35,260 --> 00:41:38,780
Paul Dickopf, the long serving president of the BKA,
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enjoyed the trust of leading politicians until his death.
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00:41:43,032 --> 00:41:46,032
(suspenseful music)
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00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,024
Although a former SS man and Nazi spy,
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Dickopf was hired by the Americans,
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even before the end of the war.
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{\an8}(Wilhelm speaking in foreign language)
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{\an8}At some point,
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{\an8}he saw Germany wasn't going to win,
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{\an8}so he hung his flag in the wind
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and decided it was time to switch sides.
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His friend, Francois Genoud,
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another Nazi agent, helps him.
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They know each other from Switzerland
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where they even lived together.
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(suspenseful music)
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(Andreas speaking in foreign language)
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Genoud was a major banker, a convinced Nazi
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{\an8}and a big fan of Hitler's.
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{\an8}And he was probably the one
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{\an8}who saved Nazi and SS fortunes, after 1945.
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Genoud published Goebbels' diaries
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and made a lot of money as a result.
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He uses the proceeds to finance the defense
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for Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbie.
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(dramatic music)
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He's friends with the terrorists, Carlos
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and Wadie Haddad, who was also a KGB agent
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and is responsible for numerous brutal attacks.
805
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But Dickopf's connection don't damage his career.
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On the contrary,
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the CIA and its head Adonis advance his career.
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(Dieter speaking in foreign language)
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{\an8}His connection
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{\an8}to the American intelligence services contributed
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{\an8}to him being employed in the German Interior Ministry.
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And then, leading the BKA,
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Germany's Federal Office of Criminal Investigation,
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even though he had an SS background.
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And I think, although it is just my opinion,
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that there was a CIA objective behind his promotion.
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I think they wanted to see him in such a position.
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(suspenseful music)
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Dickopf passed on information
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about German politics especially concerning Willy Brandt.
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In confidential meetings the BKA president was party
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to top secret intelligence regarding Brandt's Ostpolitik.
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(suspenseful music)
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It was information from a government whose policy
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of detente was viewed with skepticism in the US.
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How much did Paul Dickopf really know?
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(man speaking in foreign language)
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(Dieter speaking in foreign language)
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He took part in ministry meetings
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and was involved at a political level.
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{\an8}But to what extent he compromised the sovereignty
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{\an8}of West Germany in terms of what he gave away
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{\an8}no one can say.
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{\an8}Dickopf is a window into the highest level security
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{\an8}and intelligence issues as viewed
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by the German government of that period.
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This is high level, elite insight
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into the security apparatus of a different country.
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In CIA files, Dickopf is described
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as a unilateral agent as working exclusively for one side.
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Was he simply a traitor?
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(Wilhelm speaking in foreign language)
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I have a problem with the word traitor
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{\an8}in the context of Dickopf
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{\an8}because for him it was everyday life.
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{\an8}He was committed to both sides.
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There was almost certainly a kind of gratitude
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towards the Americans as well.
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(dramatic music)
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How badly did Dickopf damage Germany?
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In 1972, his friend, Genoud helps to hijack a Lufthansa jet.
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The action generates 15 million marks
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in ransom for Palestinian coffers.
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Money that would be used for further terrorist activity.
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(people chattering)
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In 1972, Genoud also finances the Munich massacre
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of the Israeli Olympic team.
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The sporting event,
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which is supposed to be Germany's big, prestigious moment,
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becomes one of the country's biggest ever catastrophes
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(engine roaring)
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when 11 Israeli athletes are murdered as the world looks on.
863
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(suspenseful music)
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(explosion booming)
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(Andreas speaking in foreign language)
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{\an8}Genoud was close
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{\an8}to Middle East terrorist circles.
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Some of which worked with Mossad.
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It's a very, very strange structure.
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As head of Interpol,
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Dickopf is supposed to fight such terrorists financed
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by his friend, Genoud.
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During his time in office there's a rise
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in the number of attacks and hijackings.
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But Dickopf says Interpol is powerless to stop them.
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(Paul speaking in foreign language)
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You know that Article three of our statute
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prevents the organization from any direct intervention.
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But that should encourage other countries
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to be much more active in sharing their intelligence.
881
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(interviewer speaking in foreign language)
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So, just because Interpol can't intervene
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it doesn't mean other countries can't take bilateral action.
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Bilaterally and multilaterally.
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They can do whatever they want,
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as long as they don't involve Interpol.
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(Andreas speaking in foreign language)
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At the same time as 15 and later 30 planes
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were being hijacked in a single year,
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the Western states decide
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that solving terrorist crimes is not Interpol's job.
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It's outrageous.
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Dickopf was in contact with Genoud
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who he's always meeting up with.
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And Genoud finances the people who hijack the planes.
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And at the same time Interpol says, "It's not our job."
897
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Did the CIA know
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about Dickopf's contacts with Genoud?
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Documents prove that they did.
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Dickopf himself told the CIA
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he had known him since the Second World War.
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(suspenseful music)
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But the open files in Washington don't seem to contain
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all the information the CIA claimed
905
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from Dickopf and other Nazis.
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00:48:40,376 --> 00:48:44,030
The CIA had a conscious, deliberate campaign
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{\an8}that was based in their general council's office
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{\an8}to obstruct the release of these records
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to the maximum extent possible.
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And most particularly to obstruct release
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of records that dealt with relationships
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between informants and agents and the CIA.
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Which was the exact point of this, okay?
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Christopher Simpson was a member
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of the commission that negotiated with the CIA
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over the release of the Nazi files.
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(suspenseful music)
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His experiences are sobering.
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In one of the most important categories
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that fits into that description
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is what's called foreign government information.
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And that's information in which they have obtained
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either legally or illegally from a separate government
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about that government's affairs.
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This is why the,
926
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and you'll see this in a Skorzeny file,
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you'll see it in the Dickopf file,
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you'll see it in the Klaus Barbie file,
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that to this day most people aren't familiar
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with this reality but there are nevertheless continued
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to be withheld records in those files.
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This policy prevents historians
933
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and journalists from getting to the bottom
934
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of important espionage operations.
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(dramatic music)
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(Andreas speaking in foreign language)
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The CIA is a global service
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{\an8}with a huge budget and incredible possibilities
939
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{\an8}because it also benefits from the drugs trade.
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And it exerts influence in all kinds of countries.
941
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All over Europe, it influences politics,
942
00:50:32,220 --> 00:50:35,430
the perception of the enemy, public opinion.
943
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It engages in psychological warfare.
944
00:50:38,490 --> 00:50:43,480
So, if I have an organization like the CIA, at my disposal
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I can push a democracy in the way
946
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:47,720
the Italian democracy was pushed.
947
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And in the way that certain political processes here
948
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might have been influenced.
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00:50:56,004 --> 00:50:56,888
(Wilhelm speaking in foreign language)
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An intelligence service
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is not the Boy Scouts.
952
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Many intelligence service activities
953
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from the Cold War era have still not been opened
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00:51:06,370 --> 00:51:07,763
to public scrutiny.
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This includes the operations which turned war criminals
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and fascists into collaborators.
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(dramatic music)
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