Gehlen was chief of Hides

military espionage in Rpia .

co man as the war ended. He and

his friend and successor, 54-year-
old Lieutenant-General Gerhard
Wessel, were by then plan-

hout ning , the -switchover which

was to put them at the head of
their country's intelligence net-
work once Hitler was :gone.
Gehlen hid with his group

a shadow near Lake . Schlier in Bavaria

until the Americans arrived;
and then calmly , handed them
the plans of Germany's entire
By Antony Terry
military and spy network in
Saturday' Eastern Europe. ,.. .
›:$ :"THEiEGENDARY "man with- He accepted the /6ner.leane
a3 '' :: out :a Shadow is said that „offer of a job, with a ; budget of .
0. no ;photograph existt of him $3.5 million a 'year, -on thjce
which Is less than 20 years old conditions: that his 'espion
—Isretiring: General i Reinhard organisation' should 'never::
Gehlen, at 65," Is :‘leaving the used against Gerniany,t ,that it
Poit!-:of chief , of B N p, West should employ only Gertiiirt's,„:-
Germany's equivalent of M I 6, and that if should wdik-cfot:the
Americans only until West Ger-
reputedly the the' , largest : :and
technically the best-equipped many . again ,became:•._indepen-
dent. The Americans: agreed.
spy'' : organisation • joutside the
C I :A and. :R —
tiSsia'S • KG.-13:!.,::
-
Later, he set up hundreds
'-'-'• •:"Hitler'S.;fornier s expert-on the of ' phoney commercial firms
, Red:Ukrink has been Under a wherever he needed.nn espion-,
which has not age: bureau:, But-even- by the
been completely lifted: even by 1950s the Russians were'worm-
ihfs:diseoveiy of the date of the ing their Informers into 'the
outbreak of the Israeli-Egypt network,
war: five ,days , "beforei it hap- When the Americans handed
back . Gehlen and his spies to
-,• ' ,
the West Getniani:" he kept close
The cloud ..descended when it
ties With-, CIA I A ; :trid the
,WaitlikeoVered,Uiafilis:•`,Massive
OY Pentagon. But his reputation
£8 : service, num- '
beteCtoP4eyel.RusslarC,agents with the present Nest German
ameng,Fotm,:;•;3,000.'i,,emPloyiees, Charieellor. , :suffera tinder Dr
Kiesinger's'.'general Scepticism
spIe. informers and. iefficials. It
against anything 'he is told- by
hes4a1§0.70:kevet;•tecovered:frOm
. the " : spooks "./ until it Is con-
the.s1tir,of:f ai ling tO•46pOitt ; in
firmed,' and the, Socialists now
of the
-,-; in • the : Gin/eminent resent
Gehlen's refusal' to put them-on
his secret: . mailing list • when
they Were in !opposition..
Gehlen's recent Intelligence
- information: presents . ,li reso-
lutelY.gloomy .picture Of Soviet
Intentions. ,:, •:. :•
Russ an,§hatoffered4100,600.. to
The, dapper General Wessel,
who during his four-year stay In
captured : hint kforober of
;Washington, learnt.- how impor-
• • , attfliptgon his life have been
tant the ptihlic ArnaiteiC, of a,
thadt).,ittld•:!::: (the'• Iltuilians also
n a don al lAntetti gEttetx,, l',,taViie
•;'llttinti1001:1, : ; •, tOY • Itite' i.hitn from
tion can bei411441ilifig.itheteat
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'easily than „ la, rather self-
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