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“Brozinski's Swiss network is Peter Sager, who was in Bern. Fully behind Sager's effort to accumulate and analyze communist theory and practice, he wrote a report for the attention of the Federal Council and spoke in glowing terms of Sager a…”
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would chair the OSS committee that recommended the United States arrange to exploit Galen. In this assignment, Wisner came under the command of Alan Dulles in Bern. The Washington desk officer responsible for that area was none other than R…
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There was also a forged letter sent to UBS, which was interpreted as an assassination attempt against Birkenfeld that the DOJ and the CIA was involved in, as well as the CIA substation in the embassy of Bern, which is Alan Dulles' old stopp…
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but he was also surrounded by old friends. Crossing the border and settling in to Bern, B-E-R-N, the scenic Swiss capital where he had begun his espionage career a quarter century earlier as a junior member of the U.S. litigation during Wor…
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to an agreed upon location where he handed her over to two British agents. She disappeared forever. When Dulles returned to Bern in 1942 for the OSS, he set up his base of operations in his residence, the ground floor apartment of a handsom…
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was a bit of a charade. As soon as Dulles showed up in Bern, his arrival was reported in the leading newspapers, which announced him to the spies' great delight as the personal representative of President Roosevelt. This afforded him a stat…
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But Dulles insisted it had to be burnt, and he prevailed, of course. Donovan, who himself was a World War I combat hero and self-made Wall Street millionaire lawyer who had charmed FDR and outmaneuvered powerful rival J. Edgar Hoover to bui…
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Dulles also positioned himself in Bern because the Swiss capital was the center of wartime financial and political intrigue. Bern was an espionage bazaar, teaming with spies, double agents, informers, peddlers of secrets. Switzerland was a …
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Roosevelt also said, we mean no harm to the common people of the Axis nations, but we do mean to impose punishment and retribution on the leaders. Dulles considered the unconditional surrender declaration a disaster and was quick to let his…
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That became a notorious weekend retreat for pro-Nazi aristocracy. There is no getting around this unwelcome fact. Hitler was much more fashionable in the social settings that men like Dulles frequented in England as well as the U.S. Royal T…
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The State Department bureaucracy bottled up much of the information and didn't even allow it to get out, including messages from overseas that had been directed to Rabbi Weiss. This was the desperate situation as Dulles began monitoring Eur…
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was that he was compelled to use the services of the American litigation in Bern to dispatch a confidential cable to Weiss. The U.S. diplomats in Switzerland thought that he seemed to be in great agitation as he relayed the story. The U.S. …
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History would give Dulles one more chance to alert the world of the ongoing genocide. In Switzerland, he would hear directly from the men like Schultz and others who had risked their lives to save people in Germany. In Bern, the evil was no…
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But Dulles expressed little interest in Schultz's information, more intrigued by the politics and psychological mood of the German people and how they could be won over by the Allies. Dulles asked Schultz to write up a memo on the state of …
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During another meeting with Dulles in April of 44, Colby handed over a thick file of Nazi cables revealing the Hungarian Jews who had remained were about to be rounded up and deported to the labor camp, death camps in Germany. Dulles' repor…
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Communication from Bern to Washington were declassified decades later by the government. Scholars were able to decipher his wartime obsessions. Dulles' interest was absorbed by psychological warfare tricks, such as distributing counterfeit …
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why did Dulles choose not to emphasize or even report on what was going on to Washington? Whatever his reason, one historian said, his reluctance on this subject is among the most controversial and least understood aspect of his time in Ber…
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a man who shared his views and was well known for the power of persuasion. Dulles had another motive for backing the Marshall Plan. He and Frank Wisner would later use funds skimmed from the program to finance their anti-Soviet operations i…
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of much of the German war production because he was in the OSS in Bern, Switzerland, where the guy was bringing all of the information. He was bringing it to Dulles' office. So yes, he certainly was aware of it. The French guerrillas he was…
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In the last days of 1944, as Dulles was in Bern drafting his brief for the Smith brothers, Morgenthau was in Washington drawing up what amounted to a manifesto on Germany for Roosevelt. Three points seem basic to Morgenthau. Germany had the…
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that clears all the people in Germany that he wants cleared, irregardless of whether they were doing business with the Nazis. Everybody keeping up? It's so crazy. He had provided regular information and services to the OSS station in Bern t…
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Brozinski's Swiss network is Peter Sager, who was in Bern. Fully behind Sager's effort to accumulate and analyze communist theory and practice, he wrote a report for the attention of the Federal Council and spoke in glowing terms of Sager a…
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been encircled by Nazi forces, but he also was surrounded by old friends, meaning the actual Nazis." While Dulles had originally been slated to go to London on behalf of the OSS, he argued with Wild Bill Donovan that him being stationed in …