Image from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | Hitler's spy Gehlen worked with American military intelligence to establish an anti-Soviet clandestine army that would operate throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltics and inside Russian territory. The Gehlen Organization, as it became known, was Washington's "eyes and ears" on the Soviet Union.
One of Gehlen's closest American associates at the time was John Foster Dulles, who led the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Europe during the war. Dulles shared Gehlen's rabid anti-communist views. Justifying the American collaboration with this senior Third Reich officer, Dulles said: "He's on our side, and that's all that matters." The OSS would soon evolve into the Central Intelligence Agency and Dulles became its director. |