Spies, Lies, and Citizenship by Mary Kathryn Barbier

Author:Mary Kathryn Barbier [Barbier, Mary Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS027100 History / Military / World War Ii
ISBN: 978-1-61234-971-8
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 2017-07-26T04:00:00+00:00

When submitting the report “In the Matter of Kurt Waldheim”—to Attorney General Meese, the OSI reiterated its earlier recommendation “that he be placed on the Watchlist.”83 After reviewing the OSI report, Meese rendered a decision, which was announced by the DOJ and the Department of State on 27 April 1987. Kurt Waldheim’s name was added to the Watch List. Consequently, Waldheim became the first sitting president to be denied entry to the United States—even on official state business. Furthermore, Waldheim found himself unwelcome in many other nations. Even though the British government did not put him on a similar watch list, Waldheim never received an invitation to visit Britain while he was president, which would have been a normal courtesy extended to a newly elected head of state.

The pressure that he faced convinced Waldheim not to run for reelection in 1992. His decision did not result in removal from the Watch List, even though numerous appeals were made by Waldheim and his supporters. In 1998 Waldheim failed to receive the visa that would have allowed him “to attend a UN celebration of its fiftieth anniversary of peacekeeping operations.”84 The Department of Justice stood behind its decision not to let the good work that Waldheim had done while he was secretary-general of the United Nations whitewash the acts that he had committed as a Wehrmacht lieutenant in the Balkans between 1942 and 1945.

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