Interview · moment 7 of 20
CIA Collusion With Nazis and Reinhard Gehlen
from Slumbering Herds of Cattle · #12
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4 minGuest
Talbot details Dulles's secret WWII meetings with Nazi officials via Switzerland, the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act revealing this collusion, and how Dulles installed former Nazi intelligence chief Reinhard Gehlen as West Germany's spymaster, including the anecdote about Gehlen at a World Series game.
- 17:20US intelligence officials like Alan Dulles collaborated extensively with Hitler's regime during World War II.
- 18:07Allen Dulles went to Switzerland as an OSS operative and met with Hitler and Himmler's representatives rather than enforce Roosevelt's unconditional surrender policy.
- 18:51Dulles didn't want to deal directly with Hitler but was open to dealing with other top Nazi leaders including Göring and Himmler.
- 19:41The Dulles law firm Sullivan and Cromwell represented major German economic institutions and helped rebuild them after World War I.
- 20:02Sullivan and Cromwell continued representing Nazi collaborators' interests even during the war and found ways to circumvent laws preventing corporations from dealing with the enemy.
Alan DullesAdolf HitlerHermann GöringThird ReichHeinrich HimmlerBill ClintonSullivan and CromwellWorld War IIFranklin RooseveltCarl Wolf