Gehlen Organization
 Gehlen Organization    | |
|---|---|
| Successor | BND |
| Formation | June 1946 |
| Founder |  Reinhard Gehlen |
| Extinction | 1956 |
| Type |  intelligence agency |
| Interest of | Baymirza Hayit, Karl Lütgendorf, Peer de Silva |
Under the leadership of founder Reinhard Gehlen. "Anti-fascist" Dave Emory suggests that this group was welcomed by the CIA until reports suggested that they could not control it. He suggests that it became a highly significant deep state group, spawning what he has dubbed "The Underground Reich".[1]
Successor
- Full article: BND
- Full article: BND
The Federal Intelligence Service, the foreign intelligence agency of modern Germany, is the direct continuation of the Gehlen Organization.
Front companies
A 1955 CIA document described the extent of the organization's creation and use of front companies. It also infiltrated numerous agents in large companies during the post-war economic boom, or recruited their employees. The clandestine activity covered many industries: heavy industry (Rheinmetall-Borsig), insurance companies (Gerling), logistics (Kühne + Nagel) food manufacturers (Bahlsen), medical technology (Draeger), banks (Süddeutsche Boden-Kreditbank).[2]
In addition, there were dozens of institutions in which spooks were also placed, such as the Institute for Contemporary History, the Red Cross Bavaria, the German Esperanto Association, the Bavarian Spas Association, the office of the Protestant Bishop of Munich, the Order of Malta.[2]
Gehlen also set up a network of fake companies. Usually they consisted of only one room with a telephone, but also companies that actually participated in business life. His experts for psychological warfare worked at the Munich electrical company Barth & Söhnlein, specialists for [[Poland] and the Soviet Union were in the "Lichtbildverlag" publisher, their colleagues responsible for the Balkans were in the "Süddeutsche Industrieberatungen".[2]
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Svein Blindheim | “He told of his stay behind training in the early 1950s: Organization of resistance groups, sabotage, infiltration, methods of initiating violent unrest, etc. Throughout the course, the organization and execution of what was called the liberation exercises for a Warsaw Pact country took place. The country in question was Hungary. It was the uprising in Hungary in 1956 we rehearsed!...We were simply rehearsing the program of infiltration of organizations, the military apparatus, and police, which must have been the prelude and introduction to the uprising in Hungary in the autumn of 1956 ... I have never seen any reason to doubt the realism of this rehearsal, which went on for many weeks. In other words, it was the United States alone who infiltrated Hungary so strongly that the Russians intervened on October 31, 1956, or most likely it was a NATO project.” | Svein Blindheim | 1981 |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Privatization for Dummies – The Nuts & Bolts of The World's Biggest Scam | article | 21 March 2019 | Ronald Thomas West |
