Gehlen was brought out of Germany in
Project
Paperclip,
subsequent to his meeting with Allen Dulles, a whole
Nazi intelligence unit was installed in the CIA. Thus
began the hideous mind control operations
Artichoke,
MKULTRA
and Operation Midnight Climax.
"It is quite an amazing event in history, to think that
Hitler's chief of intelligence, Reinhardt Gehlen, became a
U.S. Army general by act of Congress and his job was
intelligence for the United States. And almost no break in
service -- he was a German general right up to a certain day
and then all of a sudden he was an American general. But this
is all on the record and this is what he was doing. "
-
L. Fletcher Prouty, Colonel USAF - from a 1989 interview in
UNDERSTANDING SPECIAL OPERATIONS And Their Impact on The
Vietnam War Era, by David T. Ratcliffe
On
Gehlen and the origins of the Cold War:
Spy master Reinhardtt Gehlen, for example, created the
rationale for starting the Cold War out of whole cloth. As we
now know, had the Red Army actually been intending to
continue their drive westward, as Gehlen said they did, they
would not have been tearing up railroad track in front of
themselves. They relied heavily on rail to transport their
troops. Our leaders didn't know; they believed Gehlen, and
acted accordingly.
In the beginning:
Gehlen
had masterminded the Wehrmacht's intelligence gathering on
the eastern front and, in 1945, surrendered with his entire
archive to General Omar Bradley. When the Americans asked him
to summarise this vast hoard he tacked on a proposal for a
new organisation to conduct espionage against the Soviet
Union and its allies in central Europe, which he would run
and Washington would fund.
With Moscow repeatedly inquiring whether Gehlen had yet been
captured, the spymaster was quietly spirited to the US. Allen
Dulles, then with the Office of Strategic Services and later
head of the CIA, agreed to the plan and an autonomous Gehlen
Organisation sprang to life. It went down like a lead balloon
in London, where Guy Liddell of MI5 warned that it might turn
out to be the nucleus of a revived Abwehr.
The plan proceeded, however, and, with President Truman's
creation of the CIA in 1948, Critchfield was made the
agency's link with Gehlen. As he later acknowledged, he
quickly discovered that the German had recruited some pretty
unsavoury characters, many of whom had been senior officers
in the SS or Gestapo. Gehlen had briskly furnished them with
false papers so that they could carry on more or less where
they had left off.
In spite of this discovery, Critchfield decided that the new
enemy was more important than the old and recommended that
Washington continue giving its full support to the network.
The release of the Gehlen-related records follows CIA's
acknowledgement last September that the Agency had an
intelligence relationship with the Gehlen Organization during
the Cold War.
Allen Dulles is described as the chief architect of U.S.-Nazi
business and spy networks:
• spy at the U.S. embassy in Bern, Switzerland, collecting
political data for the State Department on Germany and the
Austro-Hungarian empire (1916-1918)
• member, U.S. staff, Versailles Peace Conference (1918-1922)
• head, State Department's Near East Affairs division
(1922-27)
• worked with brother John Foster Dulles, as lawyer and
international finance specialist for Sullivan & Cromwell,
a Wall Street law firm in New York (1927-1941). While there,
he worked with top Nazi industrialists and played a pivotal
role in promoting U.S.-Nazi corporate relations. Allen worked
with Prescott Bush (grandfather of President George Walker
Bush) and George Herbert Walker (Prescott's father-in-law)
who ran Union Banking Corporation for the Nazis. Allen was
legal counsel for Standard Oil and the Nazi's I. G. Farben,
co-owned by the Rockefellers. (Other U.S. millionaires allied
to the Nazis were: William Randolph Hearst Sr, Andrew Mellon
[Secretary of Treasury under Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover],
Irenee du Pont, Henry Ford and J.P. Morgan. Morgan, du Pont
and others were even involved in a Fascist plot to overthrow
the U.S. government in 1934.)
• President Roosevelt, realizing Dulles was a traitor, had
his New York "Office of Coordinator of Information"
wiretapped (1941-42). Some Dulles-linked firms, like Bush's
Union Banking Corp., were seized under the Trading with the
Enemy Act (1942)
• Berne station chief, Office of Strategic Services
(1942-1945). Roosevelt's plan to charge Dulles with treason
failed when Dulles was warned and covered his tracks (1944).
Roosevelt's plan died with him (1945).
• as OSS station chief in Berlin, Dulles negotiated the
agreement with General Reinhardt Gehlen to establish a Nazi
spy network within the OSS (1945).
• Dulles helped in the development of the CIA (1947), became
its deputy director (1951) [in the Truman Administration] and
its director (1953-1961). He oversaw numerous covert
operations, such as election rigging in Italy (1948), coups
in Iran (1953) and Guatemala (1954) and many other notorious
operations ...
• When Union Banking Corp. was liquidated, Prescott Bush and
George Herbert Walker received $1.5 million (1951)
• was fired by President Kennedy after the failed invasion of
Cuba at the Bay of Pigs (1961)
• as a member of the Warren Commission, he promoted the
theory that a "lone gunman" assassinated John F. Kennedy
(1963).
The CIA, at age 50 - 'Still Hiding Its Original Nazi Sin':
For U.S. policy-makers, the 50th anniversary of the founding
of the Central Intelligence Agency on Sept. 8 provides yet
another opportunity for congratulatory pronouncements about
'winning the Cold War.' But the American public would be
better served if U.S. officials marked the occasion by owning
up to the CIA's 'original sin,' which dates back to the spy
agency's earliest days: its covert use of a Nazi spy network
brimming with war criminals. ... Under CIA auspices, and
later as head of the West German secret service (BND), Gehlen
was able to influence U.S. policy toward the Soviet Bloc.
...Much of what he supplied exaggerated the Soviet threat and
whipped up fears about Russian military intentions. The Nazi
spymaster fostered paranoia in the West about a worldwide
communist conspiracy. Gehlen's strategy was based on a
rudimentary equation: the colder the Cold War got, the more
political space for Hitler's heirs.
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