After WWII, the U.S. Department of Defense secretly imported many of the top German Nazi and Italian Fascist scientists and spies into the United States via South America and the Vatican. The code name for this operation was Project PAPERCLIP. [4] One of the more prominent finds for the U.S. was German General Reinhard Gehlen. Hitler@s Chief of Intelligence against
Russia. Upon arriving in
Washington D.C. in 1945, Gehlen met extensively with President Truman, General William Bwild Bill? Donovan, Director of the Office of Strategic Services(OSS) and Allen Dulles, who would later become the stalwart head of the CIA. The objective of their brainstorming sessions was to reorganize the nominal American intelligence operation, transforming it into a highly-efficient covert organization.
The culmination of their
efforts produced the Central Intelligence Group in 1946, renamed the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) in 1947.
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