John Loftus (military author)

John Joseph Loftus (born 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 and of the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg.^[1]

Loftus is an author of numerous books on a purported

He currently writes a weekly column called "spyview" for the Haredi Jewish magazine Ami.^[2]

Early career

Son of a firefighter, Loftus was born in

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 movie, Kojak: The Belarus File (1985), with Telly Savalas.^[5]

Reception of The Belarus Secret

The

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."^[9]

Radio talk show host

Loftus previously had a radio show on Talkline Communications Network broadcast live every Monday and Tuesday from 11 pm to midnight EST in

On August 7, 2005, he provided the United States address of an alleged terrorist named Iyad K. Hilal on Fox News. Only afterwards was it revealed that Hilal had left the address three years previously and the home was now owned by a family, who was then subjected to threats and vandalism and required police protection as a result of Loftus' words.[10] Fox terminated Loftus's contract to commentate after the event.^[11] Loftus said "I thought it might help police in that area now that we have positively identified a terrorist," but he did not say why he did not contact police in a more direct manner. Loftus apologized for the mistake and expressed frustration about "one federal [agency's]" inaction on an earlier tip he had given them years ago due to the same address.^[12]

Selected publications

• The Belarus Secret: The Nazi Connection in America. New York City:
  ISBN 978-1936296040
  .
• Valhalla's Wake: The IRA, MI6, and the Assassination of a Young American (1st ed.). New York City:
  ISBN 0871132478
  .
• Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, the Nazis, and Soviet Intelligence (1st U.S. ed.). New York City:
  ISBN 031218199X
  .
• The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People. New York City:
  ISBN 031209535X
  .
• "Remembering the Holocaust" (PDF).
  Stetson Law Review
  . 30: 351–360. 2000. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
• "The Dutch Connection". chomsky-must-read.blogspot.com. September 2000.
• The Witness Tree: A Novel. Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
  ISBN 978-0307369604
  .

• Dave Emory

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