[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 97 (Thursday, July 12, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S7596]
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    SENATE RESOLUTION 133--EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT 
INFORMATION PERTAINING TO NAZI WAR CRIMINALS SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO LIGHT 
  SO THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS CAN LEARN FROM HOLOCAUST, AND FOR OTHER 
                                PURPOSES

  Mr. CORZINE submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on Foreign Relations:

                              S. Res. 133

       Whereas in the 1930s and 1940s, the German National 
     Socialist Party, the Nazi Party, methodically orchestrated 
     acts of genocide resulting in the deaths of 6,000,000 Jews 
     and 5,000,000 Gypsies, Poles, Jehovah's Witnesses, political 
     dissidents, physically and mentally disabled people, and 
     homosexuals;
       Whereas the term Holocaust is used to describe the 
     systematic extermination of Jews and others by the Nazis 
     during the period beginning on March 23, 1933, and ending on 
     May 8, 1945;
       Whereas in 1946, the International Military Tribunal at 
     Nuremberg declared the Shutzstaffel or SS, the elite corps of 
     the Nazi Party, to be a criminal organization guilty of 
     persecuting and exterminating Jews; of brutalities and 
     killings in the concentration camps; of excesses in the 
     administration of the slave labor program; and of 
     mistreatment and murder of prisoners of war;
       Whereas Nazi war criminals include any person who ordered, 
     incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in the 
     persecution of any person because of race, religion, national 
     origin, or political opinion, during the Holocaust, under the 
     direction of, or in association with, the Nazi government of 
     Germany;
       Whereas not all of these Nazi war criminals were brought to 
     justice as required by the Nuremberg Tribunal;
       Whereas in the 1970s, information began to surface that the 
     United States intelligence community harbored Nazi war 
     criminals, including Klaus Barbie, a Nazi war criminal later 
     found responsible for the torture and death of more than 
     26,000 people, in order to spy on the former Soviet Union and 
     for other purposes;
       Whereas in 1998, the 105th Congress passed and President 
     Bill Clinton signed into law the ``Nazi War Crimes Disclosure 
     Act'', which provided for the declassification of records 
     relating to Nazi war criminals, Nazi persecution, Nazi war 
     crimes, and Nazi looted assets, including those held by the 
     Central Intelligence Agency;
       Whereas the Nazi War Criminal Interagency Working Group was 
     convened by Executive Order on January 11, 1999, to (1) 
     locate, identify, inventory, recommend for declassification, 
     and make available all classified Nazi war criminal records, 
     subject to certain specified restrictions; (2) coordinate 
     with Federal agencies and expedite the release of such 
     classified records to the public; and (3) complete work to 
     the greatest extent possible and report to Congress one year 
     after passage of legislation;
       Whereas the Interagency Working Group recently declassified 
     and analyzed documents of the Office of Strategic Services 
     (OSS), forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, 
     revealing that the United States used Nazi war criminals for 
     intelligence operations against the former Soviet Union;
       Whereas the declassified documents reveal further that the 
     OSS assisted Nazi war criminals in evading capture and 
     prosecution and, in a few cases, facilitated their 
     immigration and assimilation in the United States; and
       Whereas it is unknown to what extent the former Soviet 
     Union and other nations used Nazi war criminals for spy 
     operations: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that--
       (1) the Nazi War Criminal Interagency Working Group served 
     the public interest by investigating and publicizing the 
     extent to which the United States used Nazi war criminals for 
     intelligence purposes following the Second World War;
       (2) the Administration should work with the international 
     intelligence community to expedite the release of information 
     regarding the use of Nazi war criminals as intelligence 
     operatives in the aftermath of the Second World War, 
     especially by the former Soviet Union; and
       (3) information pertaining to Nazi war criminals should be 
     brought to light so that future generations can learn from 
     the Holocaust.

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