US knew Eichmann's location for years

"DOCUMENTS released this week from a Munich archive show that the intelligence services in both America and Germany knew where Adolf Eichmann was hiding almost a decade before he was kidnapped and brought to trial.
Critics believe the decision not to arrest the man acknowledged as the supreme logistical mastermind of the Nazi Holocaust of six million Jews was taken to protect both German officials and pro-Nazi clergy in the Vatican who had helped him to escape."
US 'knew where Eichmann was hiding for years' - Scotsman.com News

 

Just released? I was under the impression that this was known for years.

 

I also thought Argentina did not capture nazi criminals even if they were asked to so only kidnapping the man would have resulted in any possible judgement...??

 

"West Germany could have hunted down Adolf Eichmann, the chief organizer of the Holocaust, as early as 1952, eight years before Israeli agents caught him in Buenos Aires, according to a newly released document that suggests postwar Germany was unready and unwilling to put him on trial.

"The revelation has been described as a sensation, and it sheds light on West Germany's reluctance to confront its past in the decades following the Holocaust."

Document Find Hailed as Sensation: Germany Knew Eichmann's Hiding Place Years Before His Capture - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

 

The Allied should have had lists already by late 1944 who to capture as nazi criminals, by letting them go in 1945 and ecape it was quite helpless to try to catch them abroad. In 1945 it could have been made. If they had operation paperclip they could have had operation "catch the nazi criminals" as well. Or were the nazi criminals turned into allied agents?? I guess both sides were more or less concentrating on the future enemy and how to deal with that. So the question is why were the nazi criminals not hunted in 1945 by the Allied??

Seems like Eichmann was in no hurry...?

"At the end of World War II, Eichmann was captured by the U.S. Army, who was not aware of Eichmann's true identity as he presented himself as "Otto Eckmann." Early in 1946, he escaped from U.S. custody and hid in Altensalzkoth, an obscure hamlet on the Lüneburg Heath, for a few years. In 1948 he obtained a landing permit for Argentina, but did not use it immediately.

At the beginning of 1950, Eichmann went to Italy, where he posed as a refugee named Riccardo Klement. With the help of a Franciscan friar who had connections with Bishop Alois Hudal, who organized one of the first postwar escape routes for Axis personnel, Eichmann obtained an International Committee of the Red Cross humanitarian passport, issued in Geneva, which he received in Italy, and an Argentine visa. Both of these issued to "Ricardo Klement, technician."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann

 

they had nothing to do with catching eichman,the mossad planned it,and carried it out.they kidnapped him,drugged him,flew him back to tel aviv,and when they hung him dumped his ashes in international waters.