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Despite his penchant for secrecy, aliases and bulletproof cars, and his aversion to photographers and public appearances, his notoriety as a superspy has always made General Reinhard Gehlen a controversial figure. As head of German military intelligence on the Eastern Front during World War II, Gehlen so infuriated Hitler with his precise predictions of Soviet victories that der Führer ordered him sent to an insane asylum. Instead, he fled to the Bavarian Alps, and later made a deal with the invading Americans: 50 cases of secret data on the Red Army in return for U.S. financial and political...
...infiltrating the secret-police forces of Eastern European countries with double agents who were used to murder or blackmail local anti-Communist politicians. The CIA was not founded until 1947, but the U.S. fought back by employing the spy system of defeated Germany, directed by General Reinhard Gehlen. An aristocratic non-Nazi who had directed Eastern-front espionage for Hitler, Gehlen knew early that Germany would lose. Sensing that the cold war would soon develop, he maintained his network of agents in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Grisly as the idea of using them may have seemed...
Because of the fear and fluidity in postwar Europe, the Russians found Gehlen's organization easy to infiltrate with double agents, primarily ex-Nazis like Heinz Felfe. Felfe, similar to Britain's renowned traitor Kim Philby, for ten years ran the Russian desk of West Germany's counterintelligence service. Acting as a Russian agent, Felfe effectively negated the Gehlen organization's counterespionage efforts against Russia while keeping Russia informed on operational intentions of the END and the Allies. The exposure of Felfe's treachery in 1961 almost cost Gehlen...
...unravel this skein of spies and spying, Hagen interviewed many of his prin-cioals-including General Gehlen and Otto John-collecting much personal information never before known. His book brings the story of cold war espionage up to date. But the struggle goes on. No end game is yet in sight. Meanwhile, The Secret War for Europe makes an absorbing spy watcher's guide and rule book for espionage-chess...
...Gehlen turns over to his hand-picked successor, Lieut. General Gerhard Wessel, 54, an organization of 3,500 full-time employees that ranks after the CIA and Britain's MI-6 as the free world's most ubiquitous intelligence service. Though he will slip into retirement as furtively as he conducted his operations, Gehlen can take some pride in the fact that his reputation for omniscience has entered the German language. In response to an unanswerable question, a West German is likely to reply, "Das weiss nur der Gehlen" (Only Gehlen knows that...