Reinhard Gehlen

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Reinhard Gehlen was a German General who served as chief of Foreign Armies East (Russian Theater G-2) from early 1942 until the end of the World War Two. After the war, his intelligence network, the Gehlen Orgainsation, was retained by the US Army], and subsequently the CIA. it subsequently formed the core of Germany's postwar intelligence organisation, the BND, which he headed until 1968.[1]

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  1. [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol16no3/html/v16i3a06p_0001.htm The Service: The Memoirs of General Reinhard Gehlen by Reinhard Gehlen. Book review by Anonymous ], Studies in Intelligence, CIA, released 2 July 1996.