Blowback Quotes

“The government employed these men and women for their expertise in propaganda and psychological warfare, for work in American laboratories, and even as special guerrilla troops for deployment inside the USSR in the midst of a nuclear war. CIA recruiting in Europe in particular often focused on Russians, Ukrainians, Latvians, and other Eastern European nationalists who had collaborated with the Nazis during Germany’s wartime occupation of their homelands. Hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of such recruits were SS veterans; some had been officers of the bloody Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the Nazi party’s security service.”
― Christopher Simpson, Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy

“Substantial evidence indicates that the Army’s central repository for intelligence records has intentionally destroyed its files on prominent Nazis closely associated with U.S. intelligence during the early Cold War when their names surfaced in the media.”
― Christopher Simpson, Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy

“The many vanished books on these forbidden subjects (among others) altogether constitute a shadow history of America—a history that We the People need to know at last, our country having now become a land with billionaires in charge, and millions not allowed to vote, and everybody under full surveillance.”
― Christopher Simpson, Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy

“These books sank without a trace, or faded fast, because they tell the sort of truths that Madison and Jefferson believed our Constitution should protect—truths that the people have the right to know, and needs to know, about our government and other powers that keep us in the dark.”
― Christopher Simpson, Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Destructive Impact on Our Domestic and Foreign Policy