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THE SECRET SURRENDER, by Allen Dulles. The organized surrender of 1,000,000 German and Italian troops a week before V-E day is ably recounted by former CIA Chief Dulles, who was its chief engineer and certainly knows a good spy story.
From that point on, Operation Sunrise reads like an exercise in frustration. The Russians, informed of the negotiations-against Dulles' better judgment-churlishly insisted that it was all really a plot to keep them out of the peace arrangements; at one point, Truman called the whole operation off to...
Easy Start. Dulles passes no moral judgment on SS General Wolff, agreeing with the assessment of Gero Gaever-nitz, one of Dulles' aides in Bern: "Wolff began to see the light in 1943, and tried not to extricate himself but to extricate the nation out of its tragic situation...
Private Line. Later that same year, Dulles' people began to pick up fascinating intelligence in the form of peace feelers from Nazi leaders assigned to northern Italy. As the tide turned against the Nazis, these overtures grew in number, so Dulles decided to pave a channel of communications for...
By March 1945, this private conduit had admitted an astonishing emissary onto Swiss soil: Nazi General Karl Wolff, commander of the SS (Hitler's elite Schutzstaffel) in northern Italy. Like many of his fellow generals, Wolff had lost faith in a Führer whose paranoia refused to see...