soc.history.war.world-war-ii

SENECA@argo.rhein-neckar.de wrote:

>> Gisevius had some contacts with Allen Dulles in Switzerland, but
>> Dulles of course was not parachuted anywhere - he operated from
>> the U.S. Embassy in Zurich.
>
>And Gisevius was propably not parachuted back from Switzerland. That
>Gisevius was `parachuted back to Germany` was mentioned by a former OSS
>man. I was surprised to hear it.

And well you might be, because
it is completely untrue.

Gisevius was an Abwehr agent and
vice-consul of the German consulate
in Zurich.

He traveled openly around Germany,
and to and from Switzerland.

He was never "an OSS agent", never
visited Allied territory, and certainly
was not "parachuted back to Germany".
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