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American intelligence's employment of former Nazis during the early Cold War : a revisionist history

Title: American intelligence's employment of former Nazis during the early Cold War : a revisionist history / John J. Carter ; with a preface by O.A. Robinson.
Author: Carter, John J.
Publication: Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2009.

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Description

v, 232 pages; 24 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Pt. I Introduction -- Ch. 1 Friends and Enemies -- Friends and Enemies -- Intelligence Communities at War's End -- Third Reich's Intelligence Community -- Intelligence Services of the Soviet Union -- American Intelligence Community -- Ch. 2 Fears and Suspicions -- Pt. II Old Enemies and New Friends -- Ch. 3 Operations to Identify and Recruit Scientists and Technicians -- Operation Alsos -- The First Step -- Operation Overcast/Paperclip -- A Second Step -- Ch. 4 Operations to Identify and Recruit Nazi Intelligence Officers -- Post War Decline of American Intelligence -- Demobilization of CIC -- Demise of the Office of Strategic Services -- Special Service Branch of the War Department -- CROWCASS and the Architecture of Nazi Recruitment -- Three Templates for Recruitment -- Ch. 5 Recruited Nazi Networks and Contractors: Two Vignettes -- Organization Gehlen -- Gehlen Resume -- Gehlen Team -- Klaus Barbie and the Petersen Network -- Ch. 6 Vignettes of Nazi Recruits: A Rogues Gallery -- Otto von Bolschwing -- Gustav Hilger -- Radislaw Ostrowsky and the Belarus Brigade -- Friedrich Buchardt -- Nikolai N. Poppe -- Hermann Baun -- Pt. III Unreliable Sources -- Ch. 7 Overestimating Nazi Foreign Intelligence -- Double-Cross Fiasco -- Failure on the Eastern Front -- Agent Operations Behind Soviet Lines -- German Intelligence's Performance against Soviet Counterintelligence -- Observations on German Successes against American Intelligence -- Ch. 8 Soviet Penetration and Disinformation -- Controlled Agents -- Heinz Felfe -- Emil Augsburg -- Heinrich Mueller and the Ghosts of Nazi Intelligence -- Controlled Networks -- Operation WIN -- Operation Fiend/Valuable -- Ch. 9 Underestimating the Culpability of Nazi Intelligence in War Crimes -- War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity -- Culpability within the Nazi Intelligence Community -- What American Intelligence Knew in 1945-1946? -- Ch. 10 Politicizing the Soviet Estimate -- Pt. IV Conclusions and Lessons -- Ch. 11 Conclusions: Causes and Consequences -- Causes -- Consequences -- Ch. 12 Lessons for the War on Terror -- Recruiting Under Stress -- Lessons about Sub-contracting Intelligence to former Adversaries -- Problems of Penetration -- Challenges of Managing Goal Displacement.

ISBN

9780773438781
0773438785

LCCN

2009031129

OCLC

ocn429025339
429025339
SCSB-1525726

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library