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Article Selection- Gehlen Organization -General Reinhard Gehlen- German chief intelligence officer during World War II

-Worked in cooperation with the U.S. after the war to establish a covert organization for CIA operatives to spy in the Soviet Union during the Cold War

-Organization was named the Gehlen Organization after General Gehlen

-much controversy over the organization as a result of many of its members being former Nazi Party members hired by Gehlen

-Organization was responsible for much of the espionage against the eastern bloc communist states in central and eastern Europe

Sources-

Feinstein, Tamara. The CIA and Nazi War Criminals. February 4, 2005. Accessed May 31, 2019. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB146/index.htm.

Ben Redjeb, Badis. 2019. “The Gehlen Organization, Nazis, and the Middle East.” Journal of Intelligence History 18 (2): 220–32. doi:10.1080/16161262.2019.1592956.

Searle, Alaric. 2002. “'Vopo'-General Vincenz Müller and Western Intelligence, 1948-54: Cic, the Gehlen Organization and Two Cold War Covert Operations.” Intelligence & National Security 17 (2): 27–50.