Congress, CIA Resolve Dispute Over Nazi Files

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By Gary Thomas
Washington
09 February 2005

The Central Intelligence Agency has agreed to release thousands of documents on Nazi war criminals to a government historical research group. The agreement ends an impasse over 60-year-old papers that are believed to show ties between the CIA and former Nazis after World War Two.

The CIA is beginning to declassify files related to its postwar relationships with ex-Nazis, ending a standoff between Congress and the intelligence agency over the documents' release.

Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, a member of the government-sponsored historical panel reviewing the files, praises the agency decision as a breakthrough in the impasse.

"I think we've made a huge amount of progress, at least in principle, and the whole atmosphere in terms of dealing with the CIA is cooperative, or at least seems to be now," Ms. Holtzman says. "And we hope that this is going to auger very well for the kind of disclosure that Congress wanted and that the American people are entitled to."

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1. what about the public?