Fins-SD2-03
Internet transmission of article by Michael J. Sniffen, 
"FBI Trains New Agents on Holocaust" (July 2000), first
published in The Washington Post June 30, 2000, and
republished here without profit for educational purposes.


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[NOTE by FINS.  While the below story suggest that the FBI is
providing sensitivity training for its new agents to be aware
of the dangers of murderous police action against dissidents
during the Nazi era, widely reported actions by state police 
and national intelligence agencies in the USA now seek to 
destroy peaceful anti-capitalist advocacy by means of bloody 
violence, sabotage, and psychological warfare, see e.g.,  
Jim Redden, Police State Targets The Left (Apr 2000), online at URL:
http://sunsite.utk.edu/FINS/Sustainable_Development/Fins-SD2-01.txt;
Frank Morales, Report on Federal Anti-Activist Intelligenc, in 
Covertaction Quarterly (June 2000), online at URL: 
http://sunsite.utk.edu/FINS/Sustainable_Development/Fins-SD2-02.txt]  



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000630/aponline123749_000.htm
FBI Trains New Agents on Holocaust
By Michael J. Sniffen
Associated Press Writer
Friday, June 30, 2000; 12:37 p.m. EDT


WASHINGTON, DC --The FBI has begun teaching its new agents how a 
failure by police to protect citizen rights helped produce the 
Holocaust in which 6 million Jews, as well as other minorities and 
political dissidents were murdered by the Nazis.

The training segment for agents-to-be at the FBI Academy began last
month and was announced Friday by FBI Director Louis J. Freeh; Sara
J.  Bloomfield, director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and
Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League.

"We do this early on in their training ... to remind them of the
horror and evil which can result from not just a government, but
particularly law enforcement, abandoning its mission to protect
people and becoming the engine of oppression," Freeh said.

The trainees are given a guided tour of the Holocaust Museum here
and instruction about Adolf Hitler's use of the police in Germany
in the 1930s and 1940s to round up Jews, political opponents and
other targeted groups....

Bloomfield, the museum director, said, "Much of the Holocaust was
perpetrated or supported by trained professionals who were 'doing
their job.' The museum's program with the FBI challenges law
enforcement agents to examine the moral dimensions of their
professions."

The topic of police complicity in the Holocaust has been a concern
of Freeh's for some time. In 1994, over objections from the State
Department and the U.S. ambassador to Poland, Freeh visited the
Nazi death camp at Auschwitz during a European trip and gave a
speech at Jagellonian University in nearby Krakow, Poland, on the
police role in Hitler's oppression.

Freeh researched and wrote the speech himself with help from Nobel
laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel."

Copyright 2000 The Associated Press


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