Word: org
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Third World Students Org. Chairwoman...
...Bavarian mountain meadow. Then he waited for the American troops. Whisked to Washington, the archenemy of only a few months before convinced his conquerors that they should appoint him (and those files) as their primary espionage source against the Soviet Union. The Gehlen Organization, or simply the "Org," set up in what had been an SS model housing development, outside of Munich. To a number of recruits-ex-SS men and Gestapo agents may have run as high as 30%-it was just like home...
...layout cost the United States $3,000,000. During the decade that Gehlen worked exclusively for the CIA, another $200 million in American money funded the Org. By 1948 the Org numbered 4,000 agents and supplied an estimated 70% of the U.S. Government's information on the Soviet military. Once Gehlen had the idea of putting 432 simultaneous wire taps on East Berlin phones. New Jersey Bell Telephone supplied the switch board, courtesy of the CIA, at a total cost...
...When the Org became the official espionage service of West Germany in 1956, Gehlen became a global caterer. He and the END - the Org's new name - discreetly contracted themselves out to Tanzania, Afghanistan and the Congo. The secret services of Israel and Egypt alike found occasion to use Gehlen's services...
British Author Cookridge and Germans Hohne and Zolling have compiled dossiers on Gehlen that might satisfy the Org itself. Cookridge, an old agent who makes a living out of spy chronicles like The Truth About Kim Philby, tends a bit to trade on man-in-the-shadows glamour...