Did you imagine that the essence of the thread is 'spying'?
Stay tuned, get your notebook out, and be prepared for a quiz at the conclusion.
It's about 'snow.'
Really.
Guaranteed there are tons of things you didn't know.
What department was available in the US govt. organized for spying on foreign nations before WWII??
You are sooooo deeply stupid.
Yet it doesn't stop you from posting.
After the war, former Nazis built the American spy agency.
And a Nazi
became the godfather of the CIA.
1. Reinhard Gehlen "....
Majorgeneral Reinhard Gehlenwas chief of
Fremde Heere Ost (FHO), the General Staff’s Eastern Front Intelligence Service of the Wehrmacht.
[29]The
Wehrmacht was the unified armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1946.....
Gehlen’s foreign service, the FHO, was absorbed into
Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler’s Reichssicherheitshauptamt (
RSHA) SS-command headquarter offices. In RSHA,
Gehlen’s overseer and superior was Himmler’s Personal Staffer,
Brigadeführer SS(
Wicked) Walter Schellenberg."
reinhard gehlen In Search of Black Assassins
As Franklin Roosevelt had entered a "marriage" with Joseph Stalin, we had no assets able to infiltrate the Soviet government. The Nazis did.....Reinhard Gehlen.
2. " You see, before the war, we had no intelligence service-not areal one, anyway...
our intelligence operation inside the Soviet Union consisted of a couple of guys from Harvard and a teletype machine. When
we suddenly found ourselves nose to nose with the Russian bogeyman, we didn’t know shit about him. His strengths, his weaknesses, his intentions. And what’s more, we didn’t know how to find out. That another war was imminent was a foregone conclusion. And what did we have? Fuck all. No networks, no agents. Nothing. We were lost, wandering in the desert. We needed help. ...
General Reinhard Gehlen, head of the German General Staff’s Foreign Armies East branch, Hitler’s chief spy on the Russian front.
“Gehlen was the answer to our prayers. The man had spent a career spying on the Soviet Union, and now he was going to show us the way. We brought him into this country.... . He told us what we wanted to hear.
Stalinism was an evil unparalleled in human history. Stalin intended to subvert the countries of western Europe from within and then move against them militarily. Stalin had global ambitions.
Be not afraid, Gehlen told us. I have networks, I have sleepers and stay-behind cells. I know everything there is to know about Stalin and his henchmen. Together, we will crush him.”
Daniel Silva, from the novel "Death in Vienna"
3. "
Gehlen Organization or
Gehlen Org was an intelligence agency established in June 1946 by U.S. occupation authorities in the
United States Zone of Germany, and consisted of
former members of the 12th Department of the German Army General Staff (Foreign Armies East, or FHO). It carries the name of
Wehrmacht Major general Reinhard Gehlen, head of the German
military intelligence in the
Eastern Front during
World War II....
...The Org was for many years the only eyes and ears of the CIA on the ground in the Soviet Bloc nations during the Cold War.The CIA kept close tabs on the Gehlen group: the Org supplied the manpower while the CIA supplied the material needs for clandestine operations, including funding, cars and airplanes.
Every German POW returning from Soviet captivity to
West Germany between 1947 and 1955 was interviewed by Org agents. Those returnees who were forced to work in Soviet industries and construction and were willing to participate, represented an incomparable source of information, a post-war, up-to-date picture of the Soviet empire as it evolved.
[2]"
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Gehlen Organization - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Gehlen eventually went back to Germany to head their Federal Intelligence Service.
You really should take notes on my posts....they are an education.