BK Notes: This was the only document the CIA could find among its files that refers to the July 20, 1944 Valkyrie Plot to kill Hitler.
The CIA's Propagandists Guide to the Valkyrie Plot -
20th Anniversary - July 1964
https://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2018/03/cias-propagandists-guide-to-valkyrie.html
At first the CIA responded to the August 25, 2012
Assassination Archives and Research Center (AARC) FOIA request for all CIA
records pertaining to the CIA's "detailed study" of the July 20, 1944
plot to kill Hitler to be adapted for use against Castro, as it us
described in the Higgins Memo of the September 25 meeting of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, by saying that they found no responsive records.
Then, after six fruitless years of looking among
their files for any mention of the Valkyrie plot to kill Hitler without
success, the CIA backtracked and admitted they found this one document - a 1964
psychological warfare report that lists dozens of dates and opportunities to
counter Communist propaganda with propaganda of their own, including the
utilization of the 20th anniversary of the July 1944 attempt to kill Hitler
that was betrayed by Communists.
It is very interesting that the very first item is a reference to an article on South America by Hal "the Spook" Hendrix, an asset of David Atlee Philips, who called Seth Kantor in Dallas from Florida on the day of the assassination to give him deep background information on Lee Harvey Oswald, who had not yet been officially accused of the assassination.
It is very interesting that the very first item is a reference to an article on South America by Hal "the Spook" Hendrix, an asset of David Atlee Philips, who called Seth Kantor in Dallas from Florida on the day of the assassination to give him deep background information on Lee Harvey Oswald, who had not yet been officially accused of the assassination.
The July 20, 1964 - 20th anniversary of the German
military plot to kill Hitler is viewed as a good opportunity to show how the
Soviet Communists supported Hitler and betrayed some of those who were involved
in the plot, arranging for the Gestapo to arrest them a few weeks before the
attempt.
This is the relevant extract from this
document:
CIA's Propagandist’s Guide to Communist Dissensions
4 May 1964
Briefly Noted
780. 20 July 1964: Twentieth Anniversary of the
Anti-Hitler Plot*
Approved for Release: 2017/08/17 CO2573160
BACKGROUND: [Note. The Communists were never
anti-Fascist in the sense of being against oppressive totalitarianism. They
were and are against everything, including free democratic ideologies, that
might thwart their imposition of their own brand of totalitarianism. They indifferently
support anything or attack anything in maneuvering toward their own goal of
eventual domination. It would be difficult to present evidence proving
conclusively that the Communists, as a tactic to insure their own takeover in
Germany after her defeat in WW II, intentionally informed the Gestapo of the
conspiracy against Hitler in June 1944. It would be simpler to prove that the
German Communist, due to their own lack of security precautions, were
penetrated by the Gestapo. However, established writers have made statements in
their published works which at least implicate the Communists in exposing this
last plot to kill Hitler. These statements can be used to seriously damage the
self-image the Communists try to create of being the saviors of those threatened
by Fascism.]
“Fascist resurgence and Nazi revanchism” is a
dead horse which Communists propagandists have flogged ad nauseam since World
War II. Twentieth anniversary of the attempt to assassinate Hitler on July 20th offers
good occasion for a public reminder that Hitler and fascism could never have
come to power without the support of Stalin and the German Communist Party,
acting under the direction of Moscow. Different writers have suggested that the
Communists actually saved Hitler in 1944 by deliberately betraying the
assassination plot to the Gestapo. (See unclassified attachment). The failure
of the assassination attempt led to the near obliteration of what moral fiber
remained in Germany officialdom, while causing incalculable and needless additional
human suffering.
Numerous eminent or high ranking personages in Nazi
Germany were convinced that Hitler must be killed and were fully prepared to do
so personally. Elaborate plots and active attempts were thwarted by mischance
or the fantastic security measures surrounding Hitler’s person. Spurred to new
efforts by the success of the Allied invasion in mid-1944, a conspiratorial
group centered around Dr. Karl Friedrich Goerdler began to take desperate
measures to assassinate Hitler and depose his Nazi retinue.
This conspiracy included all of the numerous
anti-Nazi elements in German except the illegal German Communist Party (KPD),
the remnants of which had been driven underground. On 22 June 1944 the
conspirators reluctantly broke a long-standing resolve by taking into their
confidence two surviving members of the KPD, hoping that the latter could at
least be counted on to cooperate against the Nazis. Two Social Democrats among
the conspirators Reichwein and Leber, met with KPD representatives Saefkow and
Jacob, who brought with them a third man introduced as “Rambow.” Rambow turned
out to be a Gestapo informer, and REichwein and Leber were arrested by the
Gestapo on July 4th and 5th.
This forced the precipitate action, and Count Claus
von Stauffenberge was nominated to personally plant a brief-case bomb under the
staff conference table during the 20 July visit by Hitler to his Rastenburg
field Headquarters in East Prussia. Owing perhaps to the haste of the
preparations, Hitler survived the blast without serious injury. His revenge was
a fratricidal purge which involved 7,000 arrests and 5,000 deaths, eliminating
the potential for any further anti-Nazi movement within Germany.
During the winter of 1944-45 what remained of the
spiritual elite of Germany was behind bars. Those who remained alive in April
1945 were, so far as possible, shot out of hand by the S.S. least they survive
the war and play the part that would naturally have been theirs in post-war
Germany.
According to all logic of motive, betrayal of the
anti-Hitler group to the Gestapo, was consistent with and typical of the
anti-Hitler group to the Gestapo, was consistent with and typical of Moscow’s
methods – before, during and after the war. While understanding and betraying
its “allies” and “enemies” of the moment with fine impartially, Moscow managed
to build for itself a popular image of heroic anti-Fascist struggle. The
falsity of this image has been extensively documented,….This study affords a
broad perspective of the grievous human tragedy which has been inflicted by
Moscow throughout the length and breadth of Eurasia in times of peace as well
as in war.
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