KLAUS BARBIE

[Dealey Joe]

Klaus Barbie was born in Godesberg, later renamed Bad Godesberg and today part of Bonn. The Barbie family came from Merzig, in the Saar. In origin, they were probably a French Catholic family called Barbier that had left France at the time of the French Revolution. In 1914, his father Nickolaus Barbie went off to fight in World War I. He returned an angry, bitter man. He had been wounded in the neck at Verdun and had been captured by the French, whom he hated. He never recovered his health, which was later diagnosed as cancer. Nickolaus was a school teacher. Until 1923 Klaus went to the school where his father taught. Afterward, he attended a boarding school in Trier. In 1925, his whole family moved to Trier. In June of 1933, Barbie's younger brother Kurt died at the age of eighteen of chronic illness. Later that year Barbie's father also died. The death of his abusive, alcoholic father derailed plans for young Barbie to study theology or otherwise become an academic, as his peers had expected. His relationship with his father was difficult and brutal, so it was a relief when he went off to Trier to continue his education. During his youth, Klaus was small and quiet. He was passably intelligent without being brilliant. He was reasonably popular without being considered a leader. While unemployed, Barbie was drafted into the Nazi labour service, the Reichsarbeitsdienst.On 26 September 1935, he joined the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the special security branch service of the SS {Nr. 272 284} which acted as the intelligence-gathering arm of the Nazi Party. On 1 May 1937 he joined the Nazi Party {Nr. 4 583 085). He was sent to serve in Amsterdam in the German-occupied Netherlands. In 1942, he was sent to Dijon and in November of the same year he was sent to Lyon, where he became the head of the local Gestapo. In April 1939, Barbie became engaged to Regina Margaretta Willms, a 23-year-old daughter of a postal clerk.[edit]War crimesHe first set up camp at Hôtel Terminus in Lyon. It was his time as head of the Gestapo of Lyon that earned him the name Butcher of Lyon. Evidence suggests that he personally tortured prisoners, men, women, and children alike, by breaking extremities, sexual abuse using dogs, and electroshock, among other methods.[1]It is estimated that he was directly responsible for the deaths of up to 14,000 people.[2][3] The most infamous case is the arrest and torture of Jean Moulin, one of the highest-ranking members of the French Resistance. 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, Klaus Barbie rejoined the SIPO-SD of Lyon in Bruyeres-in-Vosges, France, where he was also responsible for a massacre in Rehaupal in September 1944.[edit]CIA and BoliviaIn 1947, Barbie became an agent for the 66th Detachment of the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC).[4] In 1951, he fled to Juan Peron's Argentina with the help of a ratline organized by U.S. intelligence services[5] and the Ustashi Roman Catholic priest Krunoslav Draganović. Asked by Barbie why he was going out of his way to help him escape, Draganovic responded, "We have to maintain a sort of moral reserve on which we can draw in the future."[6] He then emigrated to Bolivia, where he lived under the alias Klaus Altmann. Testimony of 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.[7]In 1965 Klaus Barbie was recruited by the German foreign intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) under the codename "Adler" (Eagle) and the registration number V-43118 due to both his excellent relations to high ranking Bolivian officials and his strongly nationalist and anti-communist stance.[8] 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 he is responsible for at least 35 reports that were sent to the BND headquarters in Pullach.[9][edit]Che GuevaraSee also: Ñancahuazú GuerrillaThe 2007 documentary My Enemy's Enemy, directed by Oscar-winning British director Kevin Macdonald, raises the possibility that Barbie helped the CIA orchestrate the 1967 capture and execution of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia.[10] In 1966 a disguised Guevara arrived in Bolivia to organize the overthrow of its military dictatorship, and according to the film, the CIA turned to Barbie for his first-hand knowledge of counter-guerrilla warfare.[10]According to Alvaro de Castro, a longtime confidant of Barbie interviewed for the film:"He (Barbie) met Major Shelton, the commander of the unit from the US.[11] (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."[10]De Castro adds that Barbie "had little respect for Che Guevara", viewing him as "a pitiful adventurer."[10] In the film, journalist Kai Hermann remarks that "He (Barbie) always boasted - though I cannot prove it - that it was he who devised the strategy for murdering Che Guevara."[10][edit]TrialBarbie was identified in Bolivia in 1971 by the Klarsfelds (Nazi hunters), and on January 19, 1983, the newly elected government of Hernán Siles Zuazo arrested and extradited him to France.In 1984, Barbie was put on trial for crimes committed while he was in charge of the Gestapo in Lyon between 1942 and 1944. The trial started on May 11, 1987, in Lyon — a jury trial before the Rhône Cour d'assises. In a rare move, the court allowed the trial to be filmed because of its historical value. Also, a special court room with seating for an audience of about 700 was constructed.[12] The head prosecutor was Pierre Truche. At the trial Barbie received support from François Genoud, and lawyer Jacques Vergès.Barbie gave his name as Klaus Altmann (the name he had used while in Bolivia) and, claiming that his extradition was technically illegal, made the request to be excused from the trial and return to his cell at St Joseph prison. This was granted though he was brought back on May 26 to face some of his accusers, during which he stated that he had "nothing to say".Vergès had a reputation for attacking the French political system, particularly in the French colonial empire. His strategy at the trial was to use it to expose war crimes committed by France since 1945. Indeed, many of the charges against Barbie were dropped, thanks to the legislation that had protected people accused of crimes under the Vichy regime and in French Algeria. Vergès further argued that Barbie's actions were no worse than the ordinary actions of colonialists worldwide, and that his trial was selective prosecution. During his trial, Barbie famously stated that: "When I stand before the throne of God I shall be judged innocent".On July 4, 1987, Barbie was sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity, and he died in jail in Lyon of leukemia four years later, at the age of 77.

[Bruce Patrick Brychek]

Tuesday09.04.20192:38 p.m.,Chicago, Illinois time:Dear JFK Murder Solved Forum Members and Readers12.18.2011 - Mr. Joe "Dealey Joe" Hall a Brilliant Contributing Long Time Member and Moderator of the JFK Murder Solved Forum, Originally Posted this Powerful Headline and Supporting Material.This never received the discussion and interest that I thought that it would.Adolph Hitler, Adolph Eichmann, Klaus Barbie, and of course many others, were among the mostdespicable, hateful, genocidal, mass murders of at least modern recorded history.Yet in 1947 Klaus Barbie became a Counter Intelligence Agent for the U.S. Intelligence Community.What is missed here is that he ultimately answered to James Jesus Angleton, who only reported ifat all, to Allen Welsh Dulles and John Foster Dulles.The Intellectual Argument and Reasoning advanced by the Intelligence Communities and the MilitaryIndustrial Corporations has been that if we don't "ABSORB" the Klaus Barbie's of the world, enemiesor others will.WHERE, IF ANYWHERE, DO WE DRAW THE LINE TO THIS REASONING ?The friend of my enemy is my enemy !The enemy of my enemy is my friend !FURTHER YET, ADVANCE THIS THEORY OF OPERATIONS ON STEROIDS TO THE REMOVALS OF JFK, MX, MLK, RFK, and THE OKLAHOMA BOMBING, 09.11.2001, etc., etc.Certainly the Big Lies about Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Drugs, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, etc., ARE ALL JUSTIFIED UNDER THE TOTALITY OF THE ABOVE WAY OF THINKING. ARE THEY NOT ?!?As always, I strongly recommend that you first read, research, and study material completely yourself about a Subject Matter, and then formulate your own Opinions and Theories.Any additional analyses, interviews, investigations, readings, research, studies, thoughts, or writings on any aspect of this Subject Matter ?Bear in mind that we are trying to attract and educate a Whole New Generation of JFK Researchers who may not be as well versed as you.Comments ?Respectfully,BB.

[Slav]

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