THE SECRET WAR FOR EUROPE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200480003-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2004
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 4, 1969
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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rations of ratan have failed to bring the wou
. human race closer to lasting peace, the would soon dc.vclop, he rn:lintained his.,
'ialts in i'astern Europe
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intelligence services based on the more ' and the Soviet Union, Grisly as the''
primitive instincts of distrust and en- Writ)' have ironically become the more cf- idea of using then-, may have seemed
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amongst the major powers in the atom-
is age." Thus Louis 1-Iagen, a British au_ strategy and kept watch on the uncas-,
omen img political forces in Germany.
well documented "dossier of espionage ?.
conducted since 1945 in a secret pout- postwar Europe, the Russians round
ical struggle over Germany. Gehlen's organization easy to in itrate
with double agents, primarily ex-Nazis
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The come in-frnnl -the-Cold have schooled us all in the vileness of 'like Heinz F'eitc. i elfe, similar to Brit-~
win's renowned traitor Kira Philby, for
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the cspionatZeagent
ran the Russian desk of. West
, kidnaping, blackmail and the theft of se- tell year.
I... Germany's cnniltel'intcliitienec SCI'V1Ce.~
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the stuff of which peace is made. ICU .,.,...
..I Lively negated the Gehlen organization's
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Abductions Inc. The Soviet Union!..'
end T ast Germany specialized in politi=
cal kidnaping. Otto John, head ot: tcr-
Illany'sITPV--aCOlillteres)iO11a~;eorgiUll-
~t ?,ratinn devoted to maintaining political
pi 1954? Walter Linsc, dead of Germanys
Teague of Free Jurists (UFJ)-one Of the.
i'{ dii policy, guiding and dirccl;ng anti-So
ducted in front. of A witness in :952. Uy
'b" l iuco 1-T-nn says. t'ecol?Clillf'' all iastonish-'
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Stalemate was The victory, garlic Russian exile groups in West Ger-,
particularly the Organization of.
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1945 ,h balance of al?nnlent. To stop them, a Russian ICG13
tamed through Inc growth, care tt,
feeding of espionage agencies. an Bandera and Lev Rebct, the edilot''.
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plores the development of espionage in both cases. Hired killers are not,
world's most art ractive pen-I
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agencies and re-examines Most of they 1 1
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the spies themselves. The result is a lit-',was blackmailed into "murder by the
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, chess j amt played on a European chess-'turned himself in to the Allies.
vel this skein Of spies and Spy-
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board with Mesh and blood pieces.takes pawn" is the most chillingly ire ing, Hagen interviewed many of his prin-
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