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Nazis and the Church Intermarium, a far-right Catholic lay organization made up mainly of Eastern European exiles (whose name, "between the seas," expressed its ambition for a new Holy Roman Empire stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Aegean Sea became during the war, in the words of a U.S. Army intelligence report, "an instrument of the German intelligence."
After the war, Intermarium was active in smuggling Nazis out of Eastern Europe and became "one of the single most important sources of recruits for the CIA's exile committees" as well as for CIA-controlled organizations such as Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberation, and the Assembly of Captive European Nations.
The work of the fronts was supplemented by covert operations. Simpson points out, 'The CIA's present techniques for virtually every type of covert operation, from black propaganda [misinformation by secret agents] to murder, were first formulated during the agency's work with the Eastern European collaborationist troops it inherited from the Nazis."
The crumbling of Stalinism has brought great gains for the masses of Eastern Europe, but it has at the same time cleared the stage for future struggles by contending forces. Among the forces that have emerged are Iron Guardists in Romania, neo-Nazis in East Germany, and chauvinist groups in other countries. As the working class in seeking to retain its gains carries its struggle in the direction of socialist democracy, the CIA— which used such reactionary groups in the past-may well turn to them again.