Christopher Simpson

Christopher Simpson  (Author, Academic)
Christopher Simpson interviewed in the documentary: Counter-Intelligence: I - The Company.
Nationality	American
Interests	Operation Paperclip
Author of several books on The Third Reich, propaganda and psychological warfare

Christopher Simpson is a historian and Associate Professor of Communication at American University in Washington DC. He is the recipient of six national and international awards for historical writing, literature, and investigative reporting. His work has appeared in the Journal of Communication, Intelligence and National Security, and many other magazines and journals.

In short, U.S. clandestine operations employing Nazis never did produce the results that were desired when they were initiated, but they did contribute to the influence of some of the most reactionary trends in American political life. This lesson has increased in significance over the years. More recent U.S. interventions abroad have facilitated the entry into America of extremist and even terrorist emigre organizations that have subsequently gained political footholds in ethnic communities in this country, often through the use of violence and intimidation. The influence of Bay of Pigs veterans in Cuban-American enclaves or of the former Saigon police among Southeast Asian refugees comes to mind in this regard. "Blowback" of this type has not been limited to cold war Nazi utilization operations; it is a much more widespread characteristic of the CIA's emigre operations than is generally recognized and one which deserves further study...

Books

• Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis & its Effect on the Cold War (1987). Excerpts
• The Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law & Genocide in the 20th Century (1993).
• Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960 (1994). Excerpts (Review by Brian Martin)
• National Security Directives of the Reagan and Bush Administrations 1981-1991 (1995).
• War Crimes of the Deutsche Bank and the Dresdner Bank: Office of the Military Government (U.S.) (2002).

 

A Quote by Christopher Simpson

Page	Quote	Date	Source
Death squad	“So what the US military advisors do, is to teach the people in the country how to organize themselves, and how to carry out missions, and how to keep their mouths shut about missions, and how to be more "professional" in the jobs that the ingenious troops want to carry out anyway. [...] It wasn't quite that the American advisors said thou shall create a death squad and you gonna report to me, no. What they said was: here is how to organize yourself, to conduct missions and don't report to me, because I don't want to know it.”	2014	Vimeo

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