GEHLEN REINS TIGHT IN BONN SPY UNIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700250026-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 26
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2005/01/05: CIA-RDP7
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Gehlen Reins Tight in Bonn, 5
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wooded estate in a fashionable Reich Security Head Office- isn .,ann1a 4,amQva._i? inar'tains south of
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Court testimony at Karlsruhe Gehlen staff formerly were in Gehlen preserved s n
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disclosed Felfe and a codefend- SS ranks (Blackshirts). pad lit-Drsssed his sups
,graph clearly owing his. le
10 dots by the preMsion of bta'unamtling face dates to, W` a
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.....,....y o ...aaw~. 7 a ??? '+ ?? ?Y undr S3 Control, General VW046 Slle lalwl cauaavo ilarr%au
trial since the war. far less than 1 percent" of the i d . his secrecy-shrouded organisg
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get or violent attacks after a l in stride. The Federal Chan-
U 4,, r....-t I ""Adm ? "iral' "Cn"a"-a"ris was execut. murder and torture as ?
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fit of perhaps 4,000 men. Re- corps, and the Federal Office -
Soviet Army front. Hla _u-nit
cently they have weathered an for the Protection of the Con- was associated with the mill- Indi(ation that H"J 1.'~~cS lh
stitution, w~hicha is a sort of tary intelligence sera Ice of. the ?v~ ` _ _ : ,
unprecedented ansln ht ut ; , ,
Gehlen, in the^ business for I istry s military screening ser- assigned to collect information outfit draws from'
These are the Defense Min- I I
American auspices when the telligenceorgan[zations. the espionage field in 1942 million in 1957 to t4.'m
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after its leader who set up the Mtinich. Some politidana 89y Since ?{t for General Gehlen - ha
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clamored for merging 81~i1]
shark .?'G, .,. ..,.L, LW ~8z toe oumt oe given a Bonn-