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Cold War Spies: General Reinhard Gehlen
By Putz Kross
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A not many years past, under a successful Emancipation of Data Act (FOIA) suit brought by a concerned essential, the CIA opened seam its then closed Cut War files on Gehlen and his postwar activities with say publicly CIA. Interpretation congressionally mandated Nazi Conflict Crimes Revealing Act brings to transpire the pioneer relationship 'tween the Gehlen Organization, which comprised innumerable Nazi battle criminals
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Gehlen Organization
Intelligence agency
The Gehlen Organization or Gehlen Org (often referred to as The Org) was an intelligence agency established in June 1946 by U.S. occupation authorities in the United States zone of post-war occupied Germany, and consisted of former members of the 12th Department of the German Army General Staff (Foreign Armies East, or FHO). It was headed by Reinhard Gehlen who had previously been a WehrmachtMajor General and head of the Nazi German military intelligence in the Eastern Front during World War II.
The agency was a precursor to the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND or Federal Intelligence Service) which was formed in 1956.
Establishment
[edit]After World War II, Reinhard Gehlen acted under the tutelage of US Army G-2 (intelligence), but he wished to establish an association with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In 1947, in alliance with the CIA, the military orientation of the organization turned increasingly toward political, economic and technical espionage against the Eastern bloc and the moniker "Pullach" became synonymous with secret service intrigues.[1]
According to one report, the Org was for many years "the only eyes and ears of the CIA on the ground in the Soviet Bloc nations" during the Cold War. Th
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CIA to Release Records on Cold War Spymaster German General Reinhard Gehlen
Press Release · Wednesday, September 20, 2000
Washington, DC
Nazi War Criminal Records Interagency Working Group
Today, citing the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, the Central Intelligence Agency filed an affidavit in U. S. District Court acknowledging an intelligence relationship with German General Reinhard Gehlen that it has kept secret for fifty years. The CIA's court filing today in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) appeal of researcher Carl Oglesby admitted the Gehlen relationship. The CIA stated that it has records related to Gehlen and pledged that it will process them for release in accordance with the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. The CIA cited a commitment to conform to the spirit of the Disclosure Act as the primary reason for its release decision at this time.
For the better part of two years, the Nazi War Criminal Records Interagency Working Group (IWG), established under the Act, has overseen the declassification and release of records of the U.S. Government related to war crimes and war criminals of World War II.
The CIA's announcement marks the first acknowledgement by that agency that it had any relationship with Gehlen and opens the way for declassifica