Word: gehlen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anonymous Prussian. Mere mention of the name Gehlen is enough to make U.S. intelligence chiefs in Germany clam up and try to look blank. For years both Washington and Bonn refused to confirm that the organization existed. But since the Communists themselves took to blaming "Gehlen agents" for acts of sabotage throughout Eastern Europe, enough facts have leaked out to suggest that Büro Gehlen not only exists, but that it may be one of the best intelligence networks in the business...
...most heavily on professional intelligence outfits-the U.S.'s CIA, Britain's Military Intelligence, France's Deuxième Bureau, etc. Last week West Germany covertly confirmed what had long been widely suspected: Bonn, too, has its own apparatus of anti-Communist spies. Büro Gehlen, as the Germans call it, is now to become an official arm of the West German government...