The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest post-war havens for Nazis Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, along with some less famous perpetrators who managed to sneak in and who eventually were exposed by Nazi hunters. But the truth is much worse, and has been covered up for decades: the CIA and FBI brought thousands of perpetrators to America as possible assets against their new Cold War enemies. When the Justice Department finally investigated and learned the truth, the results were classified and buried. Using the dramatic story of one former perpetrator who settled in New Jersey, conned the CIA into hiring him, and begged for the agency's support when his wartime identity emerged, Eric Lichtblau tells the full, shocking story of how America became a refuge for hundreds of post-war Nazis. AUTHOR: Eric Lichtblau is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Times and has written about legal, political, and national security issues in the capital since 1999. He was the co-recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for his stories in the New York Times disclosing the existence of a secret wiretapping program approved by President George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks. He was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times for 15 years before joining the New York Times in 2002. A graduate of Cornell University, he is the author of 'Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice' , which one reviewer called "All the President's Men for an Age of Terror." In the course of research for 'The Nazis Next Door' , he was a visiting fellow at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. He lives outside Washington with his wife and children. When he's not writing, he is usually coaching youth baseball.
