Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) – Adolf Eichmann (ab 2008)

Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) - Adolf Eichmann

In the year 2008, I asked the Federal Intelligence agency BND to release its files on "Eichmann in Argentina", "German-Israeli cooperation until the year 1960 on nuclear matters" and "research of German citizens on topics related to armaments after Second World War in Argentina. The BND felt safe, the German Freedom of Informacion Act (Informationsfreiheitsgesetz) do not include intelligence agencies. So, BND wrote me: Yes we have 4500 pages but we deny completly the access to these files. I filed a lawsuit before the Federal Administrative Court against BND, based on the Federal Archives Act (Bundesarchivgesetz).

Already on 19 March, 1958, the BND told that Eichmann was living in Argentina under the name of Clemens (not to the German public attorney who had issued the arrest warrant against the war criminal) but to CIA. This proves that Eichmann was uncomfortable for his "old comrades" who wanted to get rid of him.

In a meeting on May 5th, 2008, representatives of the Legal Department of Bundeskanzleramt promised me to release all files about Eichmann and nuclear collaboration with Israel. These files finally appeared in Pullach. On 2 October 2008, my lawyer filed the legal proceeding against BND

First, BND argued with the "personality rights" of their former agents that must be protected, then they said that it had received 3.564 pages (before he admitted 4.500 pages) about “Eichmann in Argentina” from a “foreign intelligence agency” and that this foreign agency wants to keep classified these documents for ever. Obviously, they referred to Mossad.

Reply to BND and the request to hear German Chancellor Angela Merkel as a witness about the question whether the reputation of the Federal Republic of Germany would not be damaged if official documents referring to a Nazi war criminal continue hidden from the world public. Bundeskanzleramt sent an explanation why it wants to hide these files about a Nazi murderer.Download [PDF]

In April 2010, the court pronounced a sentence and declared illegal the classification.Download [PDF] The court ordered to present or another detailled declaration of Bundeskanzleramt for classification or the requested files until end of August. On September 1st, 2010 I could see in the court in Leipzig, together with my lawyer Reiner Geulen, what BND presented: another very similar declaration for classification of Bundeskanzleramt and some files, nearly totally white or totally black. Download [PDF]According to what I could see, all the BND activities where directed to possible statements of Eichmann in his process in Jerusalem. Obviously, the government of Mr. Konrad Adenauer was afraid that Eichmann talked about his accomplices in the Holocaust who made career in the government of the young state in Bonn: ministers and above all: Hans Globke, author of the Nuremberg Race Laws and right hand of Adenauer in Bundeskanzleramt and therefore supervisor of BND.

In February 2012 the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig ruled again. The decision of the Federal government was illegal; the records must be completely submitted. They are important historical documents. But the German government presented another declaration, and this time, the Court accepted. So, about 100 pages will be secret for ever.

Until today, BND did not send the released files to the National Archive in Koblenz. I offered the Archives a DVD with the documents that I got from the Federal Administrative Court, in order to make them available for other investigators. The Archives rejected the offer, they argued that they only can accept documents from the Federal Government. I suggested to add a little sheet of paper with the comment that I delivered the DVD and that investigators can travel to Pullach and compare them in the BND-headquarter. The answer was no. But among the files of the National Archives (N 1497) are documents that came from David Irving, who denies the Holocaust, and some of these papers are far away to be authentic.