ALLEN DULLES AND NAZI SECRETS DULLES COUP ON SECRET DOCUMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200150159-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1999
• Sequence Number: 159
• Publication Date: February 6, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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* ALLEN W. LLES, DRIOit, CENTRAL
was head of the U. S. Of-
fice of War Information in
Bern.
The stranger, said a
friend had acvss in Berlin
to almost ali foreign min-
istry dispatches and wished
to .make them available to
the Allies_hecaUSe he hated
Adolf Hitler and the other
Nazi masters of Germany.
Mayer, all skeptic, never-
theless called Dulles.
When the t),SS apnt
arrived, the two Americans
quizzed the strapger at
Jength.
? A femrminutes befoie midnight' Aug. 23, 1945, Allen Envqofe
Dulles clirnbcd 4.slePs to the apartmen't of a bachelor The former Geiman drew
friend and colleage 'Oerald M.
Mayer, in Bern, Switzer- from his pocket an enve-
land. 4 lope and took out three
dispatches in berman.
They purported to be mes-
sages from Nazi ambassa-
dors in France, Turkey and
Czechoslovakia to Foreign
Minister Joachim von Rib-
bentrop. ,
Dulles told the stranger
candidly that he ,suspected
he was an agent 1:irovoca-
teur who would either. (1)
let the Americans have the
paperi AT then denounce
them to Swiss Police as
spies or (2) let them radio
the, contents of the papers
to Washington and then
monitor the broadcast as a
methcid of breaking the
U. S. code.
The stranger admitted
the justice of the accusa-
tion, but implored the two
men to meet again that
night with his friend, the
man, from Berlin who got
the documents.
Dulls, then 50, a tall
man With somewhat
stooped shoulders and who
woi pectacts and usually
sr"k all'egy Pipe, was
a fan iailigure to Swiss Secret Dispatches ?
police Oi he was head of Il
Th_A '.... ie S
t tates, in
i -
the ' n Office of brief, been offered
St condens ens and, in some
cases, miact texts of top-
Bernlii.nop Yan-
secret dispatches flowing
kee at city of in code hetween the Ger-
/
wartime ,spi . man foreign ministry in
Spies beitk the Axis Berlin and some 50 Nazi
embassiel and legations
4m
and the estern deoCra-
0. attered over the world.
cies were tolerated inneu-
tral Switerland, but this Therealso were promises
that th(Jransfer of these
night 15ulles7took special
documents could continue
precautions to make sure indefinite/y, opening up the
he would not be followed. . possibility that the Allies
could know every major
A tew. ()Ars e ore C
had heap sleorified by an Axis move before it was
made.
unexpected offer of secret
documents from a stranger. , The ,circumstances were
It could be a trap--or it airo9Se too simple to be
cola be,,ple greatest in-, zwited, The clandestine aPPeret-
.,. . ,?
!,,e114ence treasure or the- ' ?nified Prussian . ment was kept at, mid-
, , , Dig
-war- night in Mayer's apart-
4 That morning a tall, dig- ment -
OD, tly face of it, the 1 'filled Prussian, who said When Dulles .walked in,
proposition had been in- ? lie had fled the Nazi re- he found Mayer, the tall
credible, -even for - a man .?.., _._
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the bizarre and the a short, stocky man who
?- .country, had walked- into wore a black leather jacket
shadowy.
the office of Mayer, who
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thwarted. Finally a. courier friendly with the regurar
Suspicions . was decorated twice, for
- - After the war, Dulles
4?.44.4?, Atpok sick and he was per Berlin - Bern dfplomatic '
seeivt negotiations lead-
Mayer passed arbuild Thad t rry the diplo- courier, told him he had a
matic pouch to Bern as a girl friend in Switzerland trIgIto the German surren-
der in Italy in late April
and -asked him to mailher, ,
? lr, * fioci for helping to pin-point
letters u afrivai * Ploin the German buzz-bomb
ru?prpt, rcollor launching sites on the Ger-
i' "girl....friend",- was man coast.
D*Ii,ea..ancle,Most highly Small Group
secret german foreign dis-
patcles. came to him Because of post-war in-
Ngrthe ofainary mails. telligence ramifications, the
herhatiusly the courier secret Of the Kappa papers
never suspetted. was kept within a small
group.,
'y'zliktoe about a year later, Not until 1950 was any-
George' Wood came to thing written about it and
Switzerland hipiself, bring- then, since Dulles declined
ing ofteli iirefaise to confirm the story, few
e diplomatic
, believed the yarn.
The entire file of Kappa
papers, still in government
en
Sone o e information hands, covers thousands of
German foreign dispatches.
was' i d out via
highballs, but 'thourrill
drafty, the itmogPliere replaCernent cour?ef 4
heavy with suspiefOn.
After preliminary sparring, ii?w'fiAilik otrAkt
the short, stocky German papers Without beinelp.."
beckoned Dulles and Mayer prehended?
to a table. . It was his job, he *d;
He brae:?4111'red swastika ' to brief the dispatc ' 44 for
seal an , a ,, pr.* brown Dr. Ritter since,
envelope 440' poured out too vo uminous.,1 e
the cnntenis? * There. were head man to study in de-
no less than 186 doett.: .?.?
meitts, some mere notel, "'A-
but others erbat te 'Dulles and the two Ger-
.. nt ,,,,Preign... Offlie in!rus, left the apartment'
patelms?,44.444 ' parately after hours of bpttom of
Dulles, whet 'sok ik. -fie courier frOM`Ber- dispatch
read Gettife" wi Oa returned to .his. hotel.
ease, riffled' thre
pipers,. reidifigi Two Things ?
' graph"' here and niiiother '' Dulles did two things at
there. '' " -''' once '
Aside from a little ex-
?Wederf4. Pre an OSS pense money, Dulles and
Theo r men a Un-
fair' e d agetit in Stockholm, alerted his men never paid George
. S4POOR ,He radioed? Vilashington
tilalmost dawn of Alpo. - by Dulles, transmitted the Wood a cent for his efforts,
' 1', egt the secret OSS trans- papers to Washington.
in Bern for an ex- Some of the h'Igest Ger- when, he slipped over the
check of every man "secrets .243-44-45 --border into Switzerland
?, place and relative were known to the Allies with a final packet of docu-
ces I supplied by the courier. "within days, thanks to the ments just before the Nazi
then spent hours pp papers. '
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References
What Dulles wanted par-
ticularlyA vyas r
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man froth Ber in Si
them in abundance...4
He also wp
own life in detail,
He ;said lii
ASIStaq. to
the German a
chlef inith?
Over R.14 er s des passed
a duplicate, nth eery
O embassytl-,disPatch, hut of
every' one Which, concerned
the arrnP;TeNkraitime a
high percentage.
He said that for almost
two years he had tried to
although he was feted
ditiethe documents. As a sample, 'George
y were-weeks old and, Wood epee sent thp corn-
his amazement, they Plete Japanese fleet order
of battle. This became a
1.chcordcled exactly many
collapse.
Still in Germany
George Wood still lives
in Germany under his real
ri.a.nae. Dulles has seen him
,41, mato moves the Germans 4?11t4 CJIA.,tc? U. S. navy in many times since the war.
ter, tegigerige officers in con- ?
son ' Pad made since,.
- _firming the fact that they Some day, if the two men
office. In (hie time, back cam
. 4, , had broken a key Japanese could collaborate and join
the AS report from Wish- ? ? ? . memories of The operation,
cope i the Pacific.
ALLEN DIJLLES
ington. Every fact ehecked. . I , it would make one of the
Only then did Dulles place e Wood dispatches re- most fascinating and fac-
the dispatches on the air ? venie.d,that'Franco was se- tual acCounts in the history
to Washington in code, , crptly shipping tungsten to of international espionage.
Germany, told which Ger-
He Kis convinced nolys,being a
also is still alive,
4? cities Were being a businessman who lives
this was no code-breaking ., itzed 'by bombing and,
trap. st impatanfof ill.,Ane. , in (i'maiii,s,,,,Zrn,w and Geneva.eleneva.
en. Dwight ElsenhoWees pu re-
officers an accurate break- turned to law4ractice in
down of the German forces Neiii Ir resident Tru-
tirlt -.P
which would oppose them man appointed him deputy
In Normandy after the D- directo of the Central In-
Day landings. tellige dtrlICIA1 in.
165r. IWO ritater Pres-
_
WIN!! the small corn- Ident, , - ?Eisan ?wee made him
r in Washington, the CIA director as Dulles'
Kappa papers were a brother, the late John ins-
tremendotis hit. ter, was made secretary of
Roosevelt ii;ted' ,state. President Kennedy,'
a few days after his elec-
President R o o s e v e It, tion, asked Dulles to re-
elated and intrigued by the mairrn-itrtettgente `chief.
secret treasure, was briefed He is still on thelob.)
on each new batch and
often ?tad them himself.. The next article in this
Many of the papers en- series, which will appear
Code Names
For the next 20 months,
until the Third Reich crum-
bled in flames, Dulles re-
ceived a steady flow of
documents from Berlin.
The little Allied benefac-
tor tiVrtleldr
name, "Gen*. 'Ant,
Dulles gem 'Code iambs to
each batch of new mes-
sages.
The first were "Alpha,"
the second "Beta" and so
on through the Greek, al-
phabet. OSS officers later
referred to the whole in-
telligence coup as the
"Kappa papers."
abled him to keep a few the day after tomorrow,
ease 200r6MW/W1.1e1A-RDP7G10009/3R400f2d09150459-8 will tell of the wartime ex-
Shipments,came to Du14 ally, Sir Winston Churchill, periences of Pierre Sa-
les regularly every month, who was fed by the veteran linger.