ABSTRACT
The following chapters focus upon the more legally and constitutionally problematic aspect of the involvement of US intelligence within the Nuremberg war crimes process. They address the policy of the OSS and other branches of US intelligence (such as the US Army’s Counter Intelligence Corps) selectively to promise immunity for war crimes. On at least one occasion, which is addressed through an in-depth case study of the non-prosecution of the Karl Wolff group of senior SS officials, OSS/CIA officials effectively honoured such promises by making a series of interventions within the Nuremberg and related trial processes.
