GEHLEN'S CONFESSIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100010037-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 37
• Content Type: REPORT

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/Article; Hamburg, Der Spiegel, German, 29.N.ay. 1972,
pp 42, 459 48-;7
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In 4WA ItiS. edition of his memoirs the founder of .the
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ND, GEHLEN, revealed hitherto unknown details the
inner sanctum of the Bonn intelligence service. At the last
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oment he quoesewkwwst the most high#'explosive.parts.,
A bunch of English language galley-proofs have-alarmed
test Germany's leading government'spies. The Federal Intel-
? u-t~
igence Service (BND) finds itselfmask d by a man who up
to now had branded almost everya about the BND
s treason --, the founder of the BND and ex-General Rein
and GEHLEN.
"An intelligence service needs a certain amount of
aver if it is to be successful, and this will never change,"
EHLEN postulates in the German edition of his memoirs."The
ecret foreign intelligence service cannot and must not be
risible to the genera. public."
However, the galley-proofs for..,the British-American
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