In 1945, a defeated German general surrendered to the US Army with a single promise: he had information America desperately needed. Reinhard Gehlen had spent years building Hitler’s intelligence…
On May 22, 1945, a former German general surrendered to American forces near Fischhausen on Lake Schliersee. He was not carrying a white flag of defeat, but an offer. Reinhard Gehlen, until recently the head of Hitler’s military intelligence section for the Eastern Front, claimed he had information the Americans needed. More importantly, he said, … Read more