David Seiferheld
David Seiferheld was a senior US intelligence officer during World War Two.
Seiferheld was a New York textile executive.[1]
Prior to World War Two, Seiferheld helped Karl Frank raise funds for the German underground. He joined the Emergency Rescue Committee on its formation as treasurer, a role he retained when it merged into the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in 1942. From these positions he was able to maintain an extensive network of contacts among German anti-fascist exiles.[2]
Seiferheld was an early recruit to the Office of Strategic Services, becoming a senior counterintelligence official, and was close to its head, William Donovan.[2][3]
While in the OSS, he remained treasurer of the IRC, representing it in meetings with the National War Fund, and became secretary of the American Friends of German Freedom.[4][5]
External resources
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Notes
- ↑ R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.218.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.18.
- ↑ R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.217.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.19.
- ↑ R. Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America's First Intelligence Agency, University of California Press, 1972, p.219.
