Austrian officials are claiming that just-released CIA files on Nazi officials prove that former Austrian President Kurt Waldheim was not guilty of Nazi-era war crimes. But an official from the U.S. Justice Department’s Nazi-hunting unit said the files only show that Waldheim had not worked for the U.S. intelligence community after the war.
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