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CIA report on negotiations to establish the BND (1952) The predecessor of the BND was the German eastern military intelligence agency during World War II, the Abteilung Fremde Heere Ost or FHO Section in the General Staff, led by Wehrmacht Major General Reinhard Gehlen. Its main purpose was to collect information on the Red Army.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), founded under the National Security Act of 1947, therefore began to set up so-called stay-behind networks, which would act in the interests of the Americans behind enemy lines in the event of a Soviet attack. Numerous former Nazis were recruited in Germany for this project.
Observation Service ( B-Dienst, χB-Dienst, MND III) (German: Beobachtungsdienst ): Naval intelligence service of Nazi Germany. Secret State Police ( Gestapo) (German: Geheime Staatspolizei ): Secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe. Secret Field Police (GFP) (German: Geheime Feldpolizei ): Secret military police of the Wehrmacht.
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency [a] Berlin Operations Base (a.k.a. Berlin Operating Base, B.O.B., or BOB) was the headquarters of the CIA (and its predecessor organizations) in West Berlin during the Cold War. Established by the OSS on 4 July 1945, BOB was originally located in a villa [b] at 19-21 Föhrenweg in the suburb of Dahlem in the ...
The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) dates from September 18, 1947, when President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 into law. A major impetus that has been cited over the years [citation needed] for the creation of the CIA was the unforeseen attack on Pearl Harbor, [ 1] but whatever Pearl Harbor's role, at ...
Reinhard Gehlen (3 April 1902 – 8 June 1979) was a German career intelligence officer who served the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, the U.S. intelligence community, and the NATO -affiliated Federal Republic of Germany during the Cold War. Born into a Lutheran family at Erfurt, Gehlen joined the Reichswehr, the truncated Army of the Weimar ...
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) / ˌ s iː. aɪ ˈ eɪ /, known informally as the Agency, [6] metonymously as Langley [7] and historically as the Company, [8] is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human ...
The German Intelligence Community is the collective of intelligence agencies in Germany.Germany has three federal intelligence services and 16 state intelligence services. . Because they do not form a single entity and because their responsibilities are split between multiple government ministries and even jurisdictions, this is an informal term for all government agencies and components with ...