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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), founded under the National Security Act of 1947, therefore began to set up so-called stay-behind networks, which would act in the interests of the Americans behind enemy lines in the event of a Soviet attack. Numerous former Nazis were recruited in Germany for this project.
CIA report on negotiations to establish the BND (1952) The predecessor of the BND was the German eastern military intelligence agency during World War II, the Abteilung Fremde Heere Ost or FHO Section in the General Staff, led by Wehrmacht Major General Reinhard Gehlen. Its main purpose was to collect information on the Red Army.
Defense (German: Abwehr): Army intelligence gathering service of Nazi Germany. Observation Service (B-Dienst, χB-Dienst, MND III) (German: Beobachtungsdienst): Naval intelligence service of Nazi Germany. Secret State Police (German: Geheime Staatspolizei): Secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe.
The Gehlen Organization or Gehlen Org (often referred to as The Org) was an intelligence agency established in June 1946 by U.S. occupation authorities in the United States zone of post-war occupied Germany, and consisted of former members of the 12th Department of the German Army General Staff (Foreign Armies East, or FHO).
Berlin Operations Base (a.k.a. Berlin Operating Base, B.O.B., or BOB) was the headquarters of the CIA (and its predecessor organizations) in West Berlin during the Cold War. Established by the OSS on 4 July 1945, BOB was originally located in a villa [ b ] at 19-21 Föhrenweg in the suburb of Dahlem in the Zehlendorf district, which had ...
The CX-52. Operation Rubicon (German: Operation Rubikon), until the late 1980s called Operation Thesaurus, was a secret operation by the West German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), lasting from 1970 to 1993 and 2018, respectively, to gather communication intelligence of encrypted government communications of other countries.
The German Intelligence Community is the collective of intelligence agencies in Germany.Germany has three federal intelligence services and 16 state intelligence services. . Because they do not form a single entity and because their responsibilities are split between multiple government ministries and even jurisdictions, this is an informal term for all government agencies and components with ...
Tim Weiner has claimed that during the Lebanese civil war that Christian leader Bashir Gemayel was on the CIA payroll and was a trusted source. [20] The 1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut killed several 8 CIA agents and in 2023 the CIA called it the "deadliest day in CIA history". [21] The role of the CIA in the 1985 Beirut car bombings has been ...