CIA activities in Germany

CIA activities in Germany

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Germany 1945

Clandestine intelligence collection

The former head of German intelligence for the Eastern Front, Reinhard Gehlen, approached US intelligence, in which the CIA did not yet exist. Gehlen offered to continue his operations against the Soviet Union. Gehlen, who had played a minor part in the 20 July Plot to kill Hitler, was not considered a political Nazi. In 1945-6, he went to work with US and allied organizations, forming the Gehlen Organisation to penetrate the Iron Curtain. In this way, KGB agents that had penetrated the German spy services entered into US service. Gehlen also informed the US of certain Office of Strategic Services personnel who worked for the USSR. The CIA recruited Nazi scientists, many of whom were war criminals to work on the US Army /CIA MKULTRA Operation based at Fort Detrick, Maryland. .[1] [2]

Germany 1953

See Operation Gold.

Germany 1956

Clandestine intelligence collection

The Organisation moved to German control, as the core Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND or Federal Intelligence Service).

Germany 1990

Clandestine intelligence collection and counterintelligence

CIA acquired the Rosenholz files, containing the list of foreign spies of the Stasi, in the former German Democratic Republic.[1]

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