DULLES TELLS OF SECRET NAZI TALKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000300010066-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: June 25, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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WAS H ING ON S rA0
Of Secret
Nazi Talks
Dulles TeHs
JUN 2 5 1966
NEW YORK (AP) - Secre
details of negotiations with Naz
generals that led to the surren
der of nearly a million German
in Italy at the close of Worl
`War II are disclosed in a curren
magazine article by Allen W
Dulles, former U.S. intelligent
chief.
Office of Strategic Service
(OSS) in Switzerland during th
war. The OSS was succeede
lately by the Central Intelligenc
'Agency. Dulles became it
director, retiring in 1961.
Dulles writes in the July Issu
of Harper's, as excerpted fro
his forthcoming book, "Th
Secret Surrender;" that he too
the responsibility and initiativ
to respond to direct surrende
probes from Gen. Karl F. Wolff
commander of the German 'S
(Elite Guard) forces in Italy.
He said secrecy had to b
:maintained so the Allied govern
ments could disavow him if the .
negotiations backfired, because
a trap was being planned by the
Nazis to split Russia and he
Allies:
The surrender probes bega
coming at the end of Februar
1945, Dulles wrote, and culmi
nated, with' the surrender. o
almost 'a million' Germans
Dulles was chief of the U.S .'
CPYRGHT
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