Reinhard gehlen cia factbook

Vol 16, No. 3.

Document Type: CREST · Collection: General CIA Records · Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST).

General Reinhard Gehlen is a professional military and intelligence officer.

General Reinhard Gehlen, former head of Nazi intelli- gence operations against the Soviets, was hired by the US Army and later by the CIA to operate ex-.

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General Reinhard Gehlen is a professional military and intelligence officer..

Washington D.C., February 4, 2005 - Today the National Security Archive posted the CIA's secret documentary history of the U.S government's relationship with General Reinhard Gehlen, the German army's intelligence chief for the Eastern Front during World War II.

At the end of the war, Gehlen established a close relationship with the U.S. and successfully maintained his intelligence network (it ultimately became the West German BND) even though he employed numerous former Nazis and known war criminals.

The use of Gehlen's group, according to the CIA history, Forging an Intelligence Partnership: CIA and the Origins of the BND, 1945-49, was a "double edged sword" that "boosted the Warsaw Pact's propaganda efforts" and "suffered devastating penetrations by the KGB." [See Volume 1: Introduction, p.

xxix]
The declassified "SECRET RelGER" two-volume history was compiled by CIA historian Kevin Ruffner and presented in 1999 by CIA Dep