would provide the power base from which unrepentant Germans
might rebuild another Reich and spark another war.
The Department of Statetook the lead in SAFEHAVEN, although
the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) came to play an important role
in gathering intelligence from clandestine sources in neutral and Ger-
man-occupied Europe. Headquartered in the U.S. Embassy in Lon-
don, the operation tracked Nazi assets throughout Europe, thereby ac-
quiring the capability to use the intelligence information to restore
some of the assets looted by the Nazis. SAFEHAVEN also had a
counterintelligencecomponent, in that it sought also to prevent post-
war German economic penetration in foreign economies, in which
OSS also played a significant role.
SAFEHAVEN became a casualty of the postwar dismantling of the
U.S. intelligence apparatus. The information gathered during the op-
eration was used in negotiations with neutral governments, such as
Switzerland, but those talks became sidetracked by the onset of the
Cold War. None of the intelligence collected for SAFEHAVEN was
useful in identifying assets stolen from the Jews and other victims of
the Nazi regime.SALOMON, HAYM (1740–1785).Salomon was a financier of the
American Revolution and one of George Washington’sspies in
New York City during 1776–1777. Salomon occasionally served as
spymaster to the French forces in the United States and as banker to
ministers of various foreign governments. The U.S. government
never repaid Salomon for the substantial amounts of money he spent
on the American cause.SANDINISTA (FSLN/Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional).
The Sandinistas were the main Nicaraguan rebel group that opposed
the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle, whom they overthrew
on 17 July 1979. On assuming power, the Sandinistas nationalized
the principal industries and began to impose their own brand of
Marxism in Nicaragua that infuriated the newly elected administra-
tion of President Ronald Reaganin the United States. In 1981, Pres-
ident Reagan accused the Sandinistas of supporting Marxist revolu-
tionary movements in Latin America and authorized the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) to finance, arm, and train the Contra
rebels to fight the Sandinista regime. The civil war raged until 1988174 • SALOMON, HAYM05-398 (2) Dictionary.qxd 10/20/05 6:27 AM Page 174