Nazis and Axis Collaborators Were Used to Further U.S. Anti-Communist Objectives in Europe — Some Immigrated to the United States (GAO/GGD-85-66)

Government Record · Tier 1 — Primary Document · U.S. General Accounting Office · June 28, 1985

The 1985 General Accounting Office report on U.S. intelligence use of former Nazis and Axis collaborators after World War II. It found no agency program to bring them in, but identified five who received individual U.S. assistance to immigrate. Its own findings, stated at full strength.

GAO did not find evidence of any U.S. agency program to aid Nazis or Axis collaborators to immigrate to the United States. However, GAO did identify five Nazis or Axis collaborators with undesirable or questionable backgrounds who received some individual assistance in their U.S. immigrations.

Executive Summary, p. ii