Cookridge,E.H. Gehlen: Spy of the Century. 1972
Cookridge, E.H. Gehlen: Spy of the Century. New York: Random House, 1972.
(Originally published in London by Hodder and Stoughton.) 402 pages.
As Nazi Germany was collapsing, General Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler's chief
of eastern front intelligence, buried his files and waited to be captured.
He felt certain that access to his files was an offer the Americans couldn't
refuse. He was right, of course, partly because the Cold War was already
being planned, and partly because Gehlen's scientific collection and analysis
methods were very effective. He and his staff cut a deal with the CIA and
the Pentagon to absorb his networks and his expertise. As part of the deal,
Gehlen transferred his organization (the "Gehlen Org") to West Germany in
1955. He directed the BND until his retirement in 1968, and died in 1979.
British journalist E.H. Cookridge has broad experience with both
European politics and espionage reporting. For this book he obtained access
to previously-classified documents of Gehlen's activities over 25 years. Of
the 24 chapters, nine concern Gehlen as a loyal Nazi, one chapter describes
the deal with the Americans in 1945-1946, and 14 follow Gehlen's career in
West Germany. The Cold War years saw a lively game of espionage between
Gehlen and his East German counterparts; each side had moles planted on the
other. The East kept complaining about all the ex-Nazis on Gehlen's staff;
in this book Cookridge shows convincingly that "this was not in fact far
from the truth." (page 271)
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