The General Was a Spy: the Truth about General Gehlen and His Spy Ring - Hohne, Heinz ; Hermann Zolling

The General Was a Spy: the Truth about General Gehlen and His Spy Ring by Hohne, Heinz ; Hermann Zolling

Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Published by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1972

Details the career of Reinhard Gehlen, Nazi Germany's wartime intelligence chief who transitioned to working for the CIA and eventually became the founding president of West Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND). The General Was a Spy documents Reinhard Gehlen’s transition from a top Nazi intelligence officer to the architect of West Germany's post-war spy apparatus, the BND, by leveraging American anti-Soviet interests. The text outlines how Gehlen's reliance on former SS and Gestapo personnel and subsequent infiltration by the Soviet KGB led to systemic failures and his eventual forced retirement in 1968. You can find more information about this historical account through in-depth analysis of postwar intelligence history.

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