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- An expert spymaster, Reinhard Gehlen surrendered to the Allies at the end of World War II in order to work with the CIA before founding Germany’s modern intelligence service with hundreds of former Nazis like him.
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Following the end of World War II, Gehlen surrendered to the United States Army. While in a POW camp, Gehlen offered FHO's microfilmed and secretly buried archives about the USSR and his own services to the U.S. intelligence community.
Nov 9, 2020 · An expert spymaster, Reinhard Gehlen surrendered to the Allies at the end of World War II in order to work with the CIA before founding Germany’s modern intelligence service with hundreds of former Nazis like him.
- Morgan Dunn
Reinhard Gehlen parlayed his experience as a senior German intelligence officer in World War II into a postwar career as an anti-communist spymaster. This article appears in: May 2019.
The plots to assassinate Hitler peaked on July 17, 1944, with a bomb’s explosion at a meeting of Hitler and his top aides. Hitler was only wounded in the attack, but he meted out a brutal revenge. Gehlen’s trivial part in the conspiracy was covered up and he escaped any punishment.
Jan 14, 2022 · Returning to West Germany under the U.S. Army’s G-2 (Intelligence) branch in 1946, Gehlen and the Org were soon transferred, under the aegis of the CIA and bankrolled with millions of U.S. dollars. The Org was primed for the onset of the Cold War in ways that the U.S. was not.
Mar 13, 2024 · As a personality General Gehlen still remains essentially a professional military officer in habits and attitudes though he never entered on active duty after World War II. He is, howevel--, a lieutenant general in the reserve.
…was created by Major General Reinhard Gehlen after World War II and which cooperated with U.S. intelligence agencies. Gehlen had headed the Foreign Armies East section of the Abwehr , the intelligence service of the German general staff.
