NYTimes: Wiesenthal's Trail of Tears - Worked for Israeli Spy Agency Mossad

"The assertion, based on numerous documents and interviews with three people said to be Mr. Wiesenthal’s Mossad handlers, punctures not only a widely held belief about how he operated; it also suggests a need to re-evaluate the standard view that the Israeli government took no interest in tracking down Nazis until the 1960 capture in Argentina of Adolf Eichmann, and little thereafter."

JERUSALEM — Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor who gained worldwide fame for decades as a one-man Nazi-hunting operation, was in fact frequently on the payroll of the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, a new biography asserts.

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Simon Wiesenthal in 1999.

The assertion, based on numerous documents and interviews with three people said to be Mr. Wiesenthal’s Mossad handlers, punctures not only a widely held belief about how he operated; it also suggests a need to re-evaluate the standard view that the Israeli government took no interest in tracking down Nazis until the 1960 capture in Argentina of Adolf Eichmann, and little thereafter.

Mr. Wiesenthal died in 2005 at the age of 96 in his Vienna home.

“This requires us to adjust in some small way our view of history,” said Tom Segev, the author of the new book “Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends,” which is being published by Doubleday this week in the United States and simultaneously in six other countries.

NEWLY RELEASED UNEDITED VIDEO REVEALS WTC 7 EXPLOSION PRECEDES COLLAPSE

Explosion heard at 0:11 mark, just before east penthouse collapse. All previous versions of this video showing the collapse straight down of WTC7 began after the cave-in of the Penthouse at the top. This unedited video starts before the Penthouse at the top collapses and very clearly one hears the sound of an explosion initiating the collapse sequence.

The Tillman Story Sets the Record Straight

Important to note here by way of Dean: "The original autopsy affirmed three taps to the head in tight formation. For those of you not familiar with what that means, the M-16 on automatic fires three shots. Now, for three shots from an M-16 on auto to hit Tillman's head "in tight formation", that means the shooter must have been so close to Tillman that the event constitutes murder. As the Mail OnLine reported in August 2007, "Astonishingly, long-hidden details of his death support the murder theory: medical evidence never did match up with the scenario of friendly fire; those three bullets from an M16 combat rifle could not have been fired from farther than ten yards; there were special forces snipers in the group immediately behind Tillman's platoon. 

Why is everyone (including the Tillman family) afraid to speak the truth?" 

MOVIE REVIEW: NFLer and U.S. Army Soldier Pat Tillman’s Real Story Told

By Melissa Anderson

Pat Tillman, the Arizona Cardinals safety who enlisted in the Army Rangers eight months after September 11, read Emerson, Chomsky, and, though an atheist, the Bible.

Resembling a beefier Seann William Scott, he shunned cell phones, cars, and professional-athlete megalomania.
A fiercely private (and principled) person, his death in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004, during his second tour of duty, was spun by the Bush II administration into a recruiting tool.

In the appalling exploitation of his corpse, Tillman was said to have died while protecting his comrades from a Taliban ambush; the bullets that felled him, however, came from his own platoon.

John McCain (R) and Maria Shriver (D), the military admitted that Pat was killed by friendly fire, attributing the incident to confusion during combat, or “the fog of war.” Poring through 3,000 pages of heavily redacted documents about her son’s death, Mary, with the help of retired special-ops soldierStan Goff (“I got a blog”), draws this conclusion: “It was not a fog of war. It was a lust to fight.”

Amir Bar-Lev’s assiduous, furious documentary (a significant improvement over his last nonfiction film, 2007′s middling My Kid Could Paint That) on the Army’s craven cover-up and the Tillman family’s determination to find out the truth is a withering assessment of U.S. military culture.