Walter Kopp’s tenure with the CIA at last came to an end, but not the headaches he would cause the Agency. In 1953, Sichel had noted that Kopp’s neo-Nazi sympathies posed “a distinct and continuing hazard to American interests in Germany if Kubark [CIA] sponsorship of his activities should ever be subject to publicity,” a warning that was borne out in 2006 when the CIA was made to declassify documents detailing the Agency’s links with alleged Nazi war criminals in the postwar era. Among the nearly thirty thousand pages released, the name of Walter Kopp figured prominently.
