240,000 pages of declassified documents were released Thursday that show the US allowed some former Nazi war criminals to live in the United States after World War II. In addition the U.S. government paid other former Nazis to work for West Germany’s secret service. According to historian Norman Goda, who wrote “US Intelligence and the Nazis”, FBI Director J Edgar Hoover backed allowing former Nazis to live here so they could help report on any Communists inside immigrant communities here in the United States.