soc.history.war.world-war-ii

"William Black" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> "Michael Kuettner" wrote in message
> news:ft86fg$jng$1@registered.motzarella.org...
>
>> The USA helped to form "Organisation Gehlen"
>> (the later BND) _because_ Gehlen had agents behind the
>> Iron Curtain.
>
> I was under the impression that the US dropped Gehlen some time after because
> it turned out that his agents weren't really his at all, but really working
> for the KGB, or whatever they were called that week...
>
Nope. See below.

> The BND was never the Gehlen Organisation.

Again, no.

> The Gahlen Organisation was a direct contractor to the US government, the BND
> is an organ of the German government.
>
OG was founded April 1st, 1946 by the US army.
It was first located in Oberursel (Taunus), then on Dec.6th, 1947 relocated to
Pullach near Muenchen.
On Juli 1st, 1949 the CIA took over.
On April 1st, 1956 OG was taken over by the BRD and renamed to BND;
and Gehlen became the first president of the BND.

The problem was, that the Soviets had moles in OG from the beginning....

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner