John Loftus
John Joseph Loftus (born February 12, 1950 in Boston ) is an American publicist and former Justice Department (DoJ) investigator .
Life
Loftus attended Boston College (BA, 1971). In his military service from 1971 to 1974, he said he was an advisor to the Israeli army in the 1973 Yom Kippur War . He studied law at Suffolk University and graduated in 1977 as a Juris Doctor . He worked at the Department of Justice and was employed from 1979 in the Office of Special Investigations as an investigator who was supposed to discover and prosecute war criminals of National Socialism in the USA. In 1982 he received from the CIA permission for Mike Wallace in the investigative news magazine 60 Minutes to occur.
Since then he has been working as a freelance writer and expert on intelligence issues. His first book, The Belarus Secret , published in 1982, was incorporated into a Kojak film (1985) a few years later . Historian Efraim Zuroff called the book controversial and referred to the book review by Charles R. Allen Jr. in which Allen referred to Loftus as a cheater and a liar. Historian David Marwell called The Belarus Secret the worst kind of amateur history.
After the renovation and reopening of the Florida Holocaust Museum in 2000, he was its director for a time and is currently (2016) still on its advisory board. He made a regular appearance on John Calvin Batchelor's late night show between 2003 and 2007 under the title Loftus Report .
Fonts (selection)
- The Belarus secret . New York: Knopf, 1982 ISBN 0-394-52292-3
- with Emily McIntyre: Valhalla's wake: the IRA, MI6, and the assassination of a young American . New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989
- with Mark Aarons : Unholy trinity: how the Vatican's Nazi networks betrayed western intelligence to the Soviets . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991
- with Mark Aarons: Unholy trinity: the Vatican, the Nazis, and the Swiss banks . New and rev. ed .; New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1998
- with Mark Aarons: The secret war against the Jews: how western espionage betrayed the Jewish people . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995
- America's Nazi Secret: An Insider's History . 2nd ed .-- Chicago: Trine Day, 2010
- Remembering the Holocaust , Stetson Law Review, 30, 2000, pp. 351-360
- with Brendan Howley: The witness tree: a novel . Toronto: Random House Canada, 2007
Web links
- Literature by and about John Loftus in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- John Loftus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Efraim Zuroff : Profession: Nazi hunter. The search with staying power: The hunt for the perpetrators of the genocide (= unwanted books on fascism. No. 10). Ahriman-Verlag , Freiburg im Breisgau 1996, ISBN 3-89484-555-4 . P. 58
- ^ Richard Rashke : Useful Enemies: John Demjanjuk and America's Open-Door Policy For Nazi War Criminals (Delphinium Books, 2013) Google Books
- ^ FHM Leadership , at Florida Holocaust Museum
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Loftus, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Loftus, John Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |