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SUBSCRIPTS: Anti Semites must be cheering Obama pick for 'special envoy' to Egypt

Rich Gibson - February 01, 2011

Guess who is the Barack Obama's special envoy to Egypt! It is Frank G Wisner! Who is he? Well, for one thing he is the son of Frank Wisner, the guy from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and later the CIA who imported thousands of wanted Nazi war criminals to the US under Operation Paperclip. Of course, the Muslim Brothers and Brotherhood, back in the day, had a lot of ties to the Nazis. While some of the most famous Nazi war criminals, like Werner Van Braun who developed much of the missile programs after he and his fellow Nazi scientists were settled in Alabama, made headlines over the years, the lesser ones who barely made the headlines were equally interesting because of their polluted pasts.

It wasn't until the 1970s that 'Archbishop' Valerian Trifa (above) of a faction of the Romanian Orthodox Church of North America had to leave Detroit (and the USA) and relocate (finally to Portugal) because of his Nazi past. But a full appreciation of Trifa's history has yet to be made in the USA, since his welcome to the land of the free was arranged by the CIA, and by 1956 he was delivering the opening prayer at the U.S. Senate at the invitation of Richard Nixon because of Trifa's contribution to anti-Communism. Nixon neglected to tell the senators that 15 years before, Trifa had helped instigate the Iron Guard pogrom against the Jews of Bucharest, one of the ugliest of the Nazi years. Among other things, Trifa's associates "processed" the Jews they murdered in January 1941 in Bucharest through the slaughterhouses.At the end of World War II, the USA cut deals across Germany and Eastern Europe with Nazis and other fascists (including the Iron Guard in Romania and various smaller Nazi groups across the Balkans) to prop up the Cold War, and they became the infrastructure of the Cold War spy apparatuses that made the USA so unpopular among those who had suffered Nazi occupation. One of the reasons why Russians and other Communists were easily able to stifle anti-Communism in the early days of the Cold War was that the guys and gals the USA picked up to join the budding Cold Warriors of the American Century had been active Nazis (and other kinds of fascists) back home between 1939 and 1945. It wasn't hard for someone down the block to recognize the new heroes of the Radio Free Europe as the guy who would have been blowing the whistle in little Liesel and her family in the harrowing escape scenes from "The Sound of Music."

One of the most notorious of the ex-Nazis helped by the CIA and Wisner's Dad was "Archbishop" Valerian Trifa, a Romanian who had helped organize the infamous January 1941 Iron Guard pogrom in Bucharest as the Romanian fascists were getting ready to welcome the Wehrmacht and the SS into Romania. But for more than 20 years, with CIA help, Trifa was able to airbrush his own personal history.

By 1956, a rehabilitated Trifa was delivering the opening prayer at the U.S. Senate at the invitation of Richard M. Nixon, at that time Vice President of the United States. It wasn't until the 1970s that Trifa and his church (one faction of the Romanian Orthodox Church of North America) had to move from Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, because by then Nazi hunters in the U.S. Justice Department had finally taken a closer look at all the Cold War anti-communists the USA had invited in following the surrender of Nazi German and the eastern countries in April May and June 1945.

Those who are skeptical of Trifa's Nazism and Iron Guard activities, the New York Times obituary for the guy (January 29, 1987) might help. It follows (in full), but one thing was left out. The Bucharest Pogrom of 1945 that Trifa helped incite as a "Rumanian Patriot" was one of the nastier (if such events can be ranked in some kind of fascist "Race to the Top"). One of the ways Trifa's Iron Guard colleagues murdered Jews over those four days was by processing them like sides of beef through a Bucharest slaughterhouse. That part was left out of the New York Times obit, which follows here in full:

VALERIAN TRIFA, AN ARCHBISHOP WITH A FASCIST PAST, DIES AT 72, By ARI L. GOLDMAN

Published: January 29, 1987

Werner Von Braun (in suit) during happier days as a Nazi scientist in 1941. Von Braun was credited with being the "father" if Hitler's V-2 rocket, which killed thousands of people in Europe during the final days of World War II in Europe and was one of the special weapons that the Nazis hoped would turn the tide even at the Third Reich was crumbling in early 1945. Von Braun was never tried for war crimes, since the predecessor of the CIA, the OSS, quickly took him and his colleagues off the hands of the American GIs of the 44th Infantry Division who took him as a prisoner in Austria in 1945. Von Braun was completely rehabilitated by the U.S. government despite the fact that his missile production facilities used slave labor during which many of the workers were worked to death and his ordnance in 1944 and 1945 killed more civilians in places like Amsterdam than any single Wehrmacht soldier.Archbishop Valerian Trifa , who was deported from the United States in 1984 after being accused of being a Nazi supporter who incited attacks on Jews and other civilians in World War II, died yesterday in a hospital in Cascais, Portugal. He was 72 years old and recently suffered a heart attack.

Until his deportation, the Archbishop was the spiritual leader of 35,000 members of the Rumanian Orthodox Episcopate, based in Grass Lake, Mich.

He was ordered to leave the United States in 1982, but spent two years trying to find a country that would give him refuge. Portugal admitted him in 1984 and he settled in Estoril, east of Cascais.

The case against the church leader was pursued for more than a decade by survivors of the Nazi years, Jewish organizations, journalists and the Justice Department. The effort helped focus public attention on Nazi war criminals who were living in the United States.

Under False Pretenses

The core of the Justice Department's case against Archbishop Trifa was that he had entered the United States under false pretenses in 1950. It charged that he concealed a past that included membership in a group called the Iron Guard, a fascist movement that was the Rumanian parallel of the Nazi storm troopers in Germany.

Federal officials said a speech in Bucharest by Archbishop Trifa on Jan. 20, 1941, touched off four days of attacks in which 300 Jews and others were killed.

When they first captured a group of well-dressed German civilians in Austria in May 1945, above, the soldiers of the American 44th Infantry Division had no idea what they had and thought the stories told to them by Werner Von Braun (above sixth from right) and his colleagues were "crazy." U.S. military intelligence quickly took the Germans off the hands of the angry G.I.s (the 44th Division had spent more days "in the line" in combat during the heat of the infantry war in France, Belgium and Germany in 1944 and 1945 than the more legendary U.S. units) and eventually helped them resettle in Alabama. Archbishop Trifa repeatedly denied that he directed an attack against Jews. But he acknowledged, when faced with evidence, including a picture of him in the uniform of the Iron Guard, that he was a member of the group. He also admitted to editing an anti-Jewish newspaper and giving pro-Nazi speeches.

He remained unrepentant. ''I am not ashamed of my past at all,'' he said to an interviewer in 1973. ''For those circumstances in that time I think that I didn't have any other alternative but to do what I thought to be right for the interests of the Rumanian people.'' Calls Speeches Standard

When shown texts of speeches bearing his name, the Archbishop said they were standard oratory for student leaders all over Rumania. ''I didn't write my own speeches,'' he said.

On entering the United States after the war, he claimed that he was a displaced person who had been in a concentration camp in Germany. In its case against him, the Government charged that, in fact, he lived in Germany with special privileges.

The best known of the Nazis who were given sanctuary by the USA beginning in the 1940s was Werner Von Braun, who is much better known than Trifa. A whole unit of study of history for today's school children could be done on Von Braun's life and work, and it would include both history and science.

While a lot of the Nazis went on to live happy lives in sanctuaries like Paraguay and Egypt, in part with the assistance of the CIA and the elder Wisner, many found a home in the heartland of the USA, from Cleveland to Detroit and Chicago. Some even found comfortable homes in Alabama with the US space and missile programs.

But back to Barack Obama and the "change" so many people longed for back in 2008. Obama's man in Egypt is Frank G. Wisner. His father, Frank Wisner, worked for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (which later morphed into the Central Intelligence Agency). During WWII, Wisner the elder was targeting the U.S. ally, the Soviet Union. In 1943, mid-war, Wisner recruited Reinhold Gehlen, a chief inside Nazi intelligence, to work with him in planning to offset advances of the USSR during and after the war.

After Nazi general Reinhard Gehlen surrendered himself and his organization to the U.S. Army in 1945, he was photographed by the Army (above). When the United States began to deploy Gehlen's Eastern European agents to spy on our former ally, the Soviet Union, and the other nations of Eastern Europe by the late 1940s, the Cold War project of the USA was undermined by the fact that many of the people working for the USA had been working for the "Gehlenapparat" during the war. U.S. Army photo.Following the war, Wisner set up “rat-lines,” running frequently through the Vatican, allowing wanted Nazi war criminals to escape prosecution: Operation Paperclip. Thousands of them wound up in the United States where, not surprisingly, they were ineffective against the USSR (Paperclip was riddled with Soviet spies), but pretty effective in continuing their fascist activities in the U.S. and around the world.

We know the German Nazis and the Muslim Brotherhood (probably influencing or having membership from about 30 percent of Egypt’s population now) had close ties, the Brotherhood circulating Nazi tracts like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Since the 1970s, a number of books have used declassified American materials — long before Wikileaks — to describe the relationship between the American CIA and the Nazis.The senior Wisner, obsessed with the USSR, also set up Operation Mockingbird, a blowback scam organized to, illegally, influence US media. In the fifties, Wisner claimed he ran significant sectors of the media, including writers and editors for the New York Times and the Washington Post.

This Wisner was also involved in overthrowing the government of Iran because Mohammed Mossasdegh had nationalized the oil fields and collectivized agriculture. Using more than $1 million from the CIA, Kermit Roosevelt set about Operation Ajax, resulting in the brutal dicatorship of the Shah, and the subsequent Islamic state today.

Frank Wisner killed himself with one of his son’s shotguns in 1965.

Frank G. Wisner, the son, is said by White House spokesmen to have vast experience with Egypt and the region.

However, his most recent experience was with American International Group (AIG), of bailout fame, the insurance agency that nearly toppled the world’s financial system, standing at the top of a pyramid-ponzi scheme that resulted in a $12.9 trillion dollar shift of public monies to private bankssters during the "housing crisis."

Prior to that, he worked for another failed grift: an offshoot of Enron. For a time he was a director of Enron.

In government service, the Obama-era Wisner served as a “foreign service officer,” was an ambassador, notably in India and the Philippines.

Hundreds of thousands of pages of U.S. materials were finally declassified in recent years as a result of Justice Department investigations into how so many former Nazis became part of the U.S. Cold War activities instead of being brought to justice at the Nuermberg Tribunals and afterwards.Wisner also served on an quasi-official study group targeting Iraq, in 2002, seeking to determine strategies and tactics for an invasion.

Wisner is married to the former step-mother of Nicolas Sarkozy of France, Christine de Ganay.

Apples may fall far from trees. However, there is no reason to believe this one did. What the people of Egypt can expect from a Wisner doesn’t need to be left to the Cassandras of the world.

The core issue of our time is the reality of the promises of perpetual war and booming inequality, met by the potential of mass, class-conscious activist resistance. Whether the wave of resistance now rushing around the world can produce such a movement, or be ruined by the usual elites’maneuvers of divide and rule, reward and punish, mysticism, hierarchy, their whole bag of tricks won from centuries of tyranny--is at issue to every one who cares.

The next time someone asks why there is no money for public schools, why teacher seniority has to be gutted, and why the defined benefit pension plans of public workers "must" be cut in the Obama era, the least we could have people do is ask how much money the Obama administration has spent on Egypt (and Mubarack) since, two years ago, it began "Race to the Top" and whether the contractors doing the wars in that part of the world have to endure a "Race to the Top" to get the billions going in to those wars.

It's nice to be reminded of the roots of current events. You cannot make this stuff up!...

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