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ICRC action during the Second World War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

François Bugnion*
Affiliation:
Geneva

Extract

Following allegations that appeared in the press last summer, calling into question the actions of some of its delegates during the Second World War, the ICRC resolved to shed full light on that period in its history. The allegations were based on a number of reports by agents of the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the predecessor of today's CIA, and suggested that ICRC delegates had been involved in activities that were inconsistent with the organization's humanitarian mandate.

Type
International Committee of the Red Cross
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1997

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References

1 The initial version was published in IRRC, No. 314, 0910 1996, pp. 562567.Google Scholar