John Joseph Loftus (February 12, 1950, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American author, former US government prosecutor and former Army intelligence officer. He is a president of The Intelligence Summit and, although he is not Jewish, a president of the Florida Holocaust Museum. Loftus also serves on the Board of Advisers to Public Information Research. He currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Early career
Son of a Boston firefighter, Loftus is a graduate of
Boston College (BA, 1971) and
Suffolk University (JD, 1977).
He served in the
U.S. Army from 1971 to 1974, attaining the rank of First Lieutenant. He began working for the
US Department of Justice in 1977 and in 1979 joined their
Office of Special Investigations, which was charged with prosecuting and deporting
Nazi war criminals in the US. Loftus' now-expired Web site claimed, "As a young U.S. Army officer, John Loftus helped train Israelis on a covert operation that turned the tide of battle in the 1973 Yom Kippur War."
Author
John J. Loftus is the author and co-author of several controversial 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). Although Loftus' first book, "The Belarus Secret," is nonfiction, it was adapted into a TV-film, (1985), with
Telly Savalas reprising his role from his television series,
Kojak.
Radio talk show host
Loftus has a radio show on the
Talkline Communications Network that broadcasts live every Monday and Tuesday from 11 pm to midnight EST in
New York City; northern
New Jersey; southern
Connecticut;
Miami, Florida; and
Pompano Beach, Florida.
Loftus' friend, John Batchelor, is a co-host on the radio show.
Social critic
Loftus serves as a media commentator, appearing regularly on
ABC National Radio and
Fox News.
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, which was then subjected to threats and vandalism and required police protection as a result of Loftus' words. Fox fired Loftus after the event. 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 FBI inaction on an earlier tip he had given them years ago due to the same address.
References
External links
Intelligence Summit
Unofficial Audio Archive of The John Batchelor Show and The Loftus Report commenced February 18, 2008
Muslim Brotherhood,(Bana) Nazis And Al Qaeda
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