Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, the Nazis, and the Swiss Banks – Darkest Tales of World War II (2000) | The Film Archives

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John Joseph Loftus (February 12, 1950), is an American author, former high level U.S. government prosecutor and former Army intelligence officer. He is the president of the Intelligence Summit.

He is the president of The Intelligence Summit and president of the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg. 

Loftus is an author of numerous books on a purported CIA-Nazi connection including The Belarus Secret and The Secret War Against the Jews, both of which contain material claiming a Bush-Rockefeller-Nazi connection.

He currently writes a weekly column called “spyview” for the Ami magazine.

Loftus is the author and co-author of several books on Nazis, espionage, and similar topics including:

The Belarus Secret (1982), 

Unholy Trinity: How the Vatican’s Nazi Networks Betrayed Western Intelligence to the Soviets (1992), 

The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People (1994), 

Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, the Nazis, and the Swiss Banks (1998),

America’s Nazi Secret: An Insider’s History of How the United States Department of Justice Obstructed Congress by: Blocking Congressional Investigations into Famous American Families Who Funded Hitler, Stalin and Arab Terrorists (2010). 

Although Loftus’ first book, The Belarus Secret, is nonfiction, it was adapted into a TV-film, Kojak: The Belarus File (1985), with Telly Savalas.

What Loftus had described as the Belarus secret is that many of the Belarus Brigade’s leaders, a unit incorporated into a German SS division, were assisted into the United States after the Second world war – thanks largely to the efforts of Frank Wisner. 

In defiance of federal law, Loftus asserted, the Office of Policy Coordination helped obtain visas for Nazi collaborators from Belarus — who were believed to have facilitated numerous atrocities by the Nazi Germany. 

According to Loftus, it was all part of a Cold War scheme to wage guerrilla warfare in Soviet-occupied Europe, in which the Nazi collaborators were to play a key role. When the project collapsed, however, the Belarussians quickly settled in and obtained US citizenship – and intelligence agencies protected them from exposure for decades.

The New York Times wrote: “there is a question as to whether the author in his zealousness may not have overstated some of his material. 

He says 300 Byelorussian Nazis and an ‘even larger number of Ukrainian Nazis’ were smuggled in. But he fails to draw a distinction between documented war criminals and hangers-on and perhaps other less culpable collaborators. … 

Still, The Belarus Secret is certain to be a valuable source book when Congress reopens hearings … into allegations of a war criminal cover-up.”

The Belarus Secret: The Nazi Connection in America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (later Paragon House). 1982. ISBN 1557781389. Revised and expanded as America’s Nazi Secret: An Insider’s History of How the United States Department of Justice Obstructed Congress by: Blocking Congressional Investigations into Famous American Families Who Funded Hitler, Stalin and Arab Terrorists; Lying to Congress, the GAO, and the CIA about the Postwar Immigration of Eastern European Nazi War Criminals to the US; and Concealing from the 9/11 Investigators the Role of the Arab Nazi War Criminals in Recruiting Modern Middle Eastern Terrorist Groups. Walterville, Oregon: TrineDay. 2010. ISBN 978-1936296040.

with McIntyre, Emily (1 August 1989). Valhalla’s Wake: The IRA, MI6, and the Assassination of a Young American (1st ed.). New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 0871132478.

with Aarons, Mark (1991). Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, the Nazis, and Soviet Intelligence (1st U.S. ed.). New York: St. Martin’s Press. ISBN 0312094078. Also published as Ratlines: How the Vatican’s Nazi Networks Betrayed Western Intelligence to the Soviets. London: Heinemann. April 1991. ISBN 0434829447. Released in a new and revised edition as Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, the Nazis, and the Swiss Banks. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin. 1998. ISBN 031218199X.

with Aarons, Mark (1994). The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People. New York: St. Martin’s Press. ISBN 031209535X.

“Remembering the Holocaust” (PDF). Stetson Law Review. 30: 351–360. 2000. Retrieved 14 April 2020.

“The Dutch Connection”.

with Howley, Brendan (2007).