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The CIA Once Investigated Odd Allegations About This Famous Cryptozoologist
Micah Hanks - April23,2021
… Shortly after the end of World War II, U.S. intelligence agencies began fostering relationships with escaped Nazis and other war criminals for purpose of exploiting their knowledge to the benefit of American interests. As if the intelligence community’s uneasy relationship with former enemies weren’t ironic enough, there were some instances where individuals that were being prosecuted for war crimes had actually been tapped for recruitment by the Counter-Intelligence Corps (prior to the establishment of the CIA) unbeknownst to the prosecutors that were building cases against them.
Among the most notorious war criminals who served the efforts of U.S. intelligence had been Nikolaus “Klaus” Barbie, who was employed by the United States and eventually helped to escape to Bolivia, where he was believed to have participated in the coup d’état undertaken by Luis García Meza in 1980. Barbie, nicknamed the “Butcher of Lyon” for his torture of Gestapo prisoners during the War, was eventually captured and extradited to France, where he stood trial for his war crimes and eventually died in prison.
The involvement of war criminals like Barbie in U.S. intelligence operations is one of the strangest and more disconcerting areas in post-war American history. However, what is less well known is that at one time, the CIA also investigated possible connections between Barbie and an American philanthropist and oil tycoon best known for conducting expeditions in search of the famous Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas.
San Antonio-based inventor Thomas Baker Slick, the founder of several scientific research organizations that included the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, also had a penchant for the mysterious and beastly. Beginning in the 1950s, he launched expeditions that went in search of proving the existence of creatures that included the famous Loch Ness Monster, as well as the Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas (as well as its American cousin, Bigfoot, shortly before his death.
Many of Slick’s exploits, as well as his possible associations with the Central Intelligence Agency, were detailed by cryptozoology chronicler Loren Coleman in his definitive biography Tom Slick and the Search for the Yeti (1989), as well as the updated 2002 edition Tom Slick: True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology, which featured a new appendix that examined possible involvement Slick had with the CIA (more on that subject can be found here).
However, an interesting footnote in Slick’s already intriguing history of possible interactions with the CIA and its operations turned up in the early 2000s, as a part of the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act….
The memorandum states that Slick had no ties to Klaus Barbie that were known to the CIA at any time, but then notes a number of interactions Slick had with the CIA over the years. Primarily, these interactions were with CIA Director Allen Dulles, and involved instances where Slick approached the agency about funding branches of hisInstitute of Inventive Researchin parts of Europe and Asia in April 1953.
“FromDCD filesit was noted that Slick’s contacts with CIA were attempts to obtain funding for one of his schemes or institutes,” the memorandum reads, adding that “There is no record of any official relationship between Slick and CIA.”
“However,” the memo does add, “CIA had periodic contacts with him between January 1950 and October 1959. According toDCD filesSlick served in the U. S. Navy from 1942 to 1946, theatre unknown. Since Slick was personally known to former Director Dulles, this association may have developed during World War II.” The connection betweenDullesand Slick described in the document likely would have occurred during their years attending college together atYale.
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