COMES IN FROM THE COLD FORMER NAZI HAS SPIED HIS LAST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300060001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 12, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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For 20 years, the West's spy network in Hitler went his way-to defeat-and Gehlen
Europe has been led by a faceless former went his-to the Americans.
Nazi general. The man, last photographed
before World War 11, is Reinhard Gehlen. Before he agreed to set up an intelligence
Next year he will retire, to a life of double network to serve the West, he demanded a'
guards outside his door day and night. free hand. He wanted a German staff, with
Gehien's staff and their families live be- money to come from the United States. He
hind a high electric fence in a forest near has often been criticized for using too many
Munich, in West Germany, The spy network former SS men In his organization. He says
has some 5,000 agents, with almost.$3 mil- the United States doesn't mind.
The Gehlen organization now has come
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on a year of his budget coming from the
United States. under the control of the West German gov-
He joined the West just as the war in ernment. Former ` Char cellor Konrad
With a pile of papers under Adenauer was one of Gehlen's strongest
Europe ended
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his arm, he knocked on the door of an supporters.
American patrol post and said quietly, "I am The mysterious general probably played
General Reinhard Gehlen.".For a time, no as significant a role as anyone In convincing
one cared. German generals were 'a dime a the US that Germany should be ,armed. He
do--en. Gehlen persistently said he had docu- has even influenced appointments In the.
rents the Americans would be very inter- West German army.
ested in. elf the Communists have a most hated
When intelligence finally got to Gehlen, list In Europe, the general with the big
they sat up in their chairs. He had a complet ears is probably number one. His Intel-
rundown on the Russians--plans, weapon ligence network, free of the bureaucracy
and all. that burdens the CIA, has been extremely
He had gathered the Information for effective. His enemies testify to that.
German attack ioii Russia wouldbo a mistake. 'A gdld'viiatbh=fria l e: But1ie 13rctoeelt: -`_
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