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INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE BAILEY
So startling and dramatic are these memoirs, the entire history of World War 11 will have to be rewritten because of them. Gehlen's revelations cannot fail to embarrass governments, cast doubt on famous leaders and causes, frighteningly underscore the fantastic power of espionage in world affairs.
7he Service is the memoir of General Rein-hard Gehlen, legendary spymaster-in-chief. Hitler's head of military espionage in Russia who, as the war ended, transferred his mammoth files and network of spies to the service of the United States, ultimately to become chief of the official West German intelligence agency.
In these pages Gehlen—whose intensely cultivated anonymity earned him the soubriquet "the man without a face"—now opens his personal records. His revelation that Martin Bormann, Hider's right-hand man, was a Soviet agent throughout the war has already inspired violent international controversy. Some of the... Tovább

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INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE BAILEY
So startling and dramatic are these memoirs, the entire history of World War 11 will have to be rewritten because of them. Gehlen's revelations cannot fail to embarrass governments, cast doubt on famous leaders and causes, frighteningly underscore the fantastic power of espionage in world affairs.
7he Service is the memoir of General Rein-hard Gehlen, legendary spymaster-in-chief. Hitler's head of military espionage in Russia who, as the war ended, transferred his mammoth files and network of spies to the service of the United States, ultimately to become chief of the official West German intelligence agency.
In these pages Gehlen—whose intensely cultivated anonymity earned him the soubriquet "the man without a face"—now opens his personal records. His revelation that Martin Bormann, Hider's right-hand man, was a Soviet agent throughout the war has already inspired violent international controversy. Some of the facts he details in this book are so momentous they have been banned from the German version. But the West German government's restrictions do not cross borders. Here, in the English edition, General Gehlen says what he has to say without censorship.
Gehlen's stunning disclosures extend into the postwar era. He shows how the American government botched the Bay of Pigs invasion, how the CIA was restrained from interfering with the anti-Communist coup Vissza