Loftus is the author and co-author of several 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), America's Nazi Secret: An Insider's History of How the United States Department of Justice Obstructed Congress by: Blocking Congressional Investigations into Famous American Families Who Funded Hitler, Stalin and Arab Terrorists'' (2010). Although Loftus' first book,
The Belarus Secret, is nonfiction, it was adapted into a TV movie,
Kojak: The Belarus File (1985), with
Telly Savalas.
Reception of The Belarus Secret What Loftus had described as
the Belarus Secret is that many of the
Belarus Brigade's leaders, a unit incorporated into a German
SS division, were assisted into the
United States after
World War II – thanks largely to the efforts of
Frank Wisner. In defiance of federal law, Loftus asserted, the
Office of Policy Coordination helped obtain
visas for Nazi collaborators from Belarus — who were believed to have facilitated
numerous atrocities by the Nazi Germany. According to Loftus, it was all part of a
Cold War scheme to wage
guerrilla warfare in Soviet-occupied Europe, in which the Nazi collaborators were to play a key role. When the project collapsed, however, the Belarusians quickly settled in and obtained
US citizenship – and intelligence agencies protected them from exposure for decades. The
Office of Special Investigations historian
David Marwell described Loftus' book
The Belarus Secret as "the worst kind of amateur history." The Israeli historian and Nazi hunter
Efraim Zuroff described the book as controversial and referred to Charles R. Allen Jr.'s review in
Jewish Currents, in which Allen joined the active criticism of Loftus and named him a fraud and a liar.
The New York Times wrote: "there is a question as to whether the author in his zealousness may not have overstated some of his material. He says 300 Byelorussian Nazis and an 'even larger number of
Ukrainian Nazis' were smuggled in. But he fails to draw a distinction between documented war criminals and hangers-on and perhaps other less culpable collaborators. ... Still,
The Belarus Secret is certain to be a valuable source book when Congress reopens hearings ... into allegations of a war criminal cover-up." ==Radio talk show host==