I also posted some other CIA assassin stuff on Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis Fed Sting thread by mistake, is it possible to move it over?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Barbie
The Butcher of Lyon
Historians estimate that Barbie was directly responsible for the deaths of up to 14,000 people.[4][5] He arrested Jean Moulin, one of the highest-ranking members of the French Resistance and his most prominent enemy figure.
In April 1944, Barbie ordered the deportation to Auschwitz of a group of 44 Jewish children from an orphanage at Izieu. After his operations in Lyon, he rejoined the SIPO-SD of Lyon in Bruyeres-in-Vosges, where he led an anti-partisan attack in Rehaupal in September 1944.
US intelligence and Bolivia
After the war had ended, he was recruited by the Western Allies and worked for the British until 1947. After that, in 1947, Barbie was recruited as an agent for the 66th Detachment of the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC).[6] In 1951, he fled to Juan Peron's Argentina with the help of a ratline organized by U.S. intelligence services[7] and the Croatian Roman Catholic priest Krunoslav Draganović. When asked by Barbie why he helped such escapes, Draganović said, "We have to maintain a sort of moral reserve on which we can draw in the future."[8]
Barbie emigrated to Bolivia, where he lived under the alias Klaus Altmann. Testimony of the Italian insurgent Stefano Delle Chiaie before the Italian Parliamentary Commission on Terrorism suggests that Barbie took part in the "Cocaine Coup" of Luis García Meza Tejada, when the regime forced its way to power in Bolivia in 1980.[9]
In 1965 Barbie was recruited by the West German foreign intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) under the codename "Adler" (Eagle) and the registration number V-43118. He had excellent relations with high-ranking Bolivian officials and was known for his nationalist and anti-communist stance.[10] His initial monthly salary of 500 Deutsche Mark was transferred in May 1966 to an account of the Chartered Bank of London in San Francisco. During his stint with the BND, Barbie made at least 35 reports to the BND headquarters in Pullach.[11]
Che Guevara
See also: Ñancahuazú Guerrilla
Reviews of the 2007 documentary My Enemy's Enemy, directed by the British director Kevin Macdonald, note that it suggests Barbie helped the United States' CIA orchestrate the 1967 capture and execution in Bolivia of Che Guevara, a Marxist revolutionary who was active in Cuba and South America.[12] In 1966 a disguised Guevara had arrived in Bolivia to organize the overthrow of its military dictatorship. According to the film, the CIA used Barbie for his knowledge of counter-guerrilla warfare.[12]
Alvaro de Castro, a longtime confidant of Barbie, was interviewed for the film. He reportedly said:
"He (Barbie) met Major Shelton, the commander of the unit from the US. (Barbie) no doubt gave him advice on how to fight this guerrilla war. He used the expertise gained doing this kind of work in World War Two. They made the most of the fact that he had this experience."[12]
De Castro adds that Barbie "had little respect for Che Guevara."[12] In the film, the journalist Kai Hermann says, "He (Barbie) always boasted – though I cannot prove it – that it was he who devised the strategy for murdering Che Guevara."[12][13]
http://www.justice.gov/criminal/hrsp/archives/1983/08-02-83barbie-rpt.pdf
Assistant A ttomey General
1'1eI'i'1orandum to the Attorney General
US. Department of Justice
Criminal Division
WCJhinI10r.. D.C. 20530
.August 2, 1983
As the investigation of Klaus Barbie "has sho ... 'l1, officers
of the United States goverl1.l"Tlent ""ere directly responsible
for protecting a person wanted by the gover~~ent of France
on criminal charges and in arranging his escape from the
law,. As a direct result of that action, Klaus Barbie did
not stand trial in France in 1950; he spent 33 years as a
free man and a fugitive from justice, and the fact that he
is awaiting trial today in France is due entirely to the
persistence of the government of France and the coo"peration
of the present government of Bolivia.
It is true that the obstruction of efforts to apprehend
and extradite Barbie were not condoned in any official sense
by the United States government. But neither caD this episode
be considered as merely the unfortunate ac£ion of
renegade officers. They were acting within the scope of
their official duties. Their actions were taken not for
personal gain, or to shield them personally from liability
or discipline, but to protect what they believed to be the
interests of the United States Army and the United States
gover~~ent. Under these circumstances, whatever may be their
personal culpability, the United States government cannot
disclaim responsibility for their actions.