Reinhard Gehlen - Hitler's spymaster : from the Eastern Front in WW2 to Cold War CIA asset
Ridley, Norman (Writer on the Battle of Britain)2025
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Eleven years after Reinhard Gehlen, the head of Adolf Hitler's Eastern Front military intelligence unit, emerged from hiding to hand himself over to US forces, he had, with the help of the American CIA, created a legend for himself as founder and first president of the West German Secret Service. In this role he employed many of the same Wehrmacht and SS officers he had served with during the Second World War. All through the steady progression of his career before and during the Second World War, Gehlen had been far too industrious and committed to court the limelight. Then after the defeat of Germany, when he transferred his allegiance to the CIA and later became head of the Bundesnachrichtendienst, he became a man whom Hugh Trevor Roper's described as someone who 'always moved in the shadows'.
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Barnsley : Frontline Books, 2025.
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256 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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9781036113254 (hbk. :)
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English
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3368466
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