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 Special Investigations to identify and bring Nazi war criminals and collaborators to justice for concealment of criminal activity during 1933-45. Prior to the establishment of OSI, CIA worked with the Special Litigation Unit (SLU) of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for a brief period in the 1970s. In addition, Congress ordered the General Accounting Office (GAO) to conduct two separate investigations, during 1977-78 and again during 1982-85, to determine the relationship between the US Government and Nazi war criminals. The House of Representatives held public hearings to discuss GAO's findings after both investigations. (U)

According to the General Accounting Office, the Central Intelligence Agency did not have a formal or even an informal program to bring Nazi war criminals or collaborators into the United States. The Agency did bring defectors from Iron Curtain countries and provided "disposal" services for American agents from Europe. In some cases, these defectors or agents also had Nazi pasts, but this did not constitute a basis for US support or assistance. In its 1985 report, Nazis and Axis Collaborators Were Used to