Eugene Dolman person
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Claims (37)
Eugene Dolman wrote_memoirs_about
Adolf Hitler book_quoted
“Eugene Dolman undoubtedly came closer to the truth when he wrote in his memoirs that a fading Hitler, pumped full of drugs during his final meeting in the bunker, gave Wolf a vague sort of permission to establish contacts with the Americans…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 5:14
Eugene Dolman intermediary_for
Operation Sunrise book_quoted
“Carl Wolf's name still stirred too much unease in Washington. Moving to the next chapter, rat lines. Carl Wolf was not the only prominent SS officer who was greatly benefited from Dulles' sunrise. In the fall of 1945, former SS Colonel Euge…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 8:44
Eugene Dolman held_by
CIA book_quoted
“Mistress of Mussolini's. And he whiled his time by reading it. Dahlman was not an entirely free man. He was still a guest of U.S. intelligence officers. But even though he remained under close surveillance compared to his accommodations aft…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 9:47
Eugene Dolman transferred_to
Escona book_quoted
“Then he was transferred to a POW camp in Escona on a lake where the daily fare was even more objectionable. And the inmates were forced to sleep in tents that floated away in heavy downpours. Dolman later had the nerve to compare that camp …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 10:49
Eugene Dolman transferred_to
Rimini book_quoted
“Then he was transferred to a POW camp in Escona on a lake where the daily fare was even more objectionable. And the inmates were forced to sleep in tents that floated away in heavy downpours. Dolman later had the nerve to compare that camp …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 10:49
Eugene Dolman escaped_from
Rimini book_quoted
“And for those of you who remember our very first sessions, this is the camp that they put everybody in so they could escape, so they could be ratlined out of Italy, supposedly under the security of the UK. One night, Dolman found it remarka…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 11:22
Eugene Dolman sought_sanctuary_from
Alfredo Schuster book_quoted
“where he knew he could find sanctuary. Here, Dolman presented himself to a well-connected cardinal of the Catholic Church, Alfredo Schuster, in his palazzo adjoining an enormous Gothic cathedral. Dolman found, as one of the Rome's more eleg…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 11:55
Alfredo Schuster recruited
Eugene Dolman book_quoted
“cardinal was part of a Vatican elite that had collaborated with Mussolini's fascist regime. He was inclined to help Dolman now to avoid an embarrassing war crimes trial. Besides, Schuster thought that men like Dolman might still play a usef…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 12:58
James Jesus Angleton rescued
Eugene Dolman book_quoted
“of the OSS counterintelligence in Italy during the war and had stayed behind to use his wiles against the quote-unquote communist threat. After tracking down Dolman in Milan's asylum, Angleton sent a big U.S. Army Buick with a chauffeur to …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 14:27
Allen Dulles recruited
Eugene Dolman book_quoted
“as the Red Challenge. This included recruiting agents without concern for their fascist past. Dolman was high on their list as recruitment target. His continental sophistication and network of contacts, Dolman might prove a valuable espiona…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 18:25
James Jesus Angleton provided_identity_for
Eugene Dolman book_quoted
“While Dolman was unimpressed with Angleton's political lecture, he did appreciate the fake identity card the young spy gave him. The document, which identified him as an Italian employee of an American organization, afforded Dolman the conf…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 20:05
Eugene Dolman served_as_link_between
Adolf Hitler book_quoted
“to prepare Dolman for the life he began when he joined the SS, where he would rise to become the link between Hitler and Mussolini. Dolman had tried to make sense of why he had enlisted in Hitler's Nazi core. It wasn't a political ambition …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 24:35
Eugene Dolman served_as_link_between
Benito Mussolini book_quoted
“to prepare Dolman for the life he began when he joined the SS, where he would rise to become the link between Hitler and Mussolini. Dolman had tried to make sense of why he had enlisted in Hitler's Nazi core. It wasn't a political ambition …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 24:35
Eugene Dolman escorted
Reinhard Heydrich book_quoted
“Official Dolman, most dreaded escorting around Italy was Reinhard Heinrich, Himmler's top executioner. Now there was a man clearly meant to be murdered by someone or other, Dolman observed later. His demonic personality, a Lucifer with cold…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 27:09
Counterintelligence Corps tracked
Eugene Dolman book_quoted
“as one of the most disagreeable acquaintance he had ever met. In 1941, Roth had overseen the development and operation of the fleet of Black Raven vans, which were basically the mobile death camps. And the CIA, soon to be CIA, wanted to sav…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 29:55
Leo Pagnotta interrogated
Eugene Dolman book_quoted
“He'd be dropped off for a movie. As Dolman was sitting, waiting in the police station holding room, the door suddenly opened and Major Pagnotta walked in. The two men took an immediate dislike to each other. Dolman was predispositioned to l…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 31:31
Eugene Dolman contacted
James Jesus Angleton book_quoted
“American, Dolman thought. The situation appeared bleak for Dolman. His next stop would be Nuremberg, but he knew that he had an ace up his sleeve. Dolman took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Pagnotta. Please call this …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 32:02
Eugene Dolman carried_out_attack
Italy documented
“in Argentina and extradited to stand trial in Italy for his role in the massacre. Haas received a life sentence, but by then he was an old man. And because of that and his failing health, he didn't have to go to prison. Unsurprisingly, afte…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 34:25
Eugene Dolman member_of
U.S. Army documented
“in Argentina and extradited to stand trial in Italy for his role in the massacre. Haas received a life sentence, but by then he was an old man. And because of that and his failing health, he didn't have to go to prison. Unsurprisingly, afte…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 34:25
CIA covered_up
Eugene Dolman documented
“That's actually written down. At one point, CIA officials even raised the possibility that Dolman had sold himself to Moscow and was a Soviet double agent. Because when all else fails, that's their go-to. But in 1955, the CIA finally severe…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 1:01:47
Allen Dulles funded
Eugene Dolman documented
“promised to be dishy with actual Nazi documents that he claimed to be authentic, including some written by Hitler. The colonel was shaking down the CIA for money, for exclusive rights, to examine the documents. Dulles said the CIA knew that…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 53:40
Enrico Zucca covered_up
Eugene Dolman book_quoted
“He was famous for his role in raising Mussolini's body from the grave on Easter 1946 in preparation for the day when Mussolini would be reburied with full honors on Rome's Capitol Line Hill. The Abbey had less spectacular plans for Dolman. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 56:09
CIA recruited
Eugene Dolman documented
“intelligence reports on CIA agents that he leaked to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Senator Joseph McCarthy, and other people that didn't like the CIA. Dahlman kept in contact with American intelligence after the war. Grombach wrote in a con…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:11:18
Switzerland removed_from_power
Eugene Dolman documented
“The scandal in turn produced reports of Dolman's association with both the CIA and MI6. Dulles was somewhat abashed by the latest fiasco, Grombeck wrote, and left Germany in haste. So, he ends up working for the CIA. In time, the Swiss ende…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:12:40
Eugene Dolman recruited
Otto Skorzeny book_quoted
“The guy writing this book says he is still trying to determine if Skorzeny and Ebola ever actually met. There are at least three potential links between them. One was already discussed with Eugene Dolman, who befriended Ebola while he was i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 17:35
Eugene Dolman recruited
Otto Skorzeny book_quoted
“Timing of all of this suggests that they were all working together because they were. In 1952, Ebola's former SD patron, Eugene Dolman, would go to work for Otto Skorzeny in Madrid as well. During the same years, Skorzeny entered into his l…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 24:48
Office of Strategic Services transported
Eugene Dolman book_quoted
“Mistress of Mussolini's. And he whiled his time by reading it. Dahlman was not an entirely free man. He was still a guest of U.S. intelligence officers. But even though he remained under close surveillance compared to his accommodations aft…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 9:47
James Jesus Angleton reassigned
Eugene Dolman documented
“Gowan might have been Angleton's social superior with much better connections to Roosevelt and Truman administration, but in the end, it was Angleton who prevailed at the spy games. In May of 1947, after Dolman had spent several bleak month…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 41:43
George Price Hays covered_up
Eugene Dolman documented
“on D-Day was angered by the treatment that Dulles' Sunrise Nazis received. Hayes, who became a high commissioner in the U.S. occupation zone in Germany, pointed out in a November 1947 memo that it was the U.S. Army that was responsible for …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 43:39
Eugene Dolman spied_on
United States book_quoted
“In true Dolman fashion, he was also hiring himself out to the Nazi groups and reporting back to them about U.S. intelligence activities. As if this web of competing loyalties were not complicated enough, while Dolman was living in Madrid, b…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 1:00:48
James Jesus Angleton funded
Eugene Dolman book_quoted
“SS Eugene Winner, W-E-N-N-E-R, who had also played a part in Operation Sunrise Maneuvers. It soon dawned on Pagnotta's team that Angleton was operating a safe house, a stream of Nazi fugitives who were connected to Sunrise and other Dulles …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 36:27
CIA covered_up
Eugene Dolman host_asserted
“For abuse of his visitor status, no court ever tried Dolman for his role in any of the horrific activity that he was involved in. And on the basis of his memoir, he today enjoys the reputation of being a not-so-bad guy. Dolman's colleague a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:13:09
CIA recruited
Eugene Dolman book_quoted
“which he observed would condone their crimes without proper examination. Nonetheless, by 1947, many of the American military hierarchy shared the Dulles-Angleton view that this anti-communist monster that they were building had to be fed, a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 44:08
Eugene Dolman laundered_money_for
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“Sarah Gussa, a federal narcotics agent at the U.S. Embassy in Rome who had close ties to the CIA. Now, again, if you know anything about Operation Gladio, this makes perfect sense. Sarah Gussa had proved very useful to Angleton over the yea…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 59:30
Otto Skorzeny trafficked
Eugene Dolman book_quoted
“which is now where Otto Skorzeny is. In Madrid, Dolman came under the protection of Otto Skorzeny, who had put together a racket trading in arms and helping SS fugitives flee justice. They don't mention being a trainer for Operation Gladio …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 56:37
Eugene Dolman spied_on
CIA book_quoted
“In true Dolman fashion, he was also hiring himself out to the Nazi groups and reporting back to them about U.S. intelligence activities. As if this web of competing loyalties were not complicated enough, while Dolman was living in Madrid, b…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 1:00:48
Eugene Dolman member_of
West Germany host_asserted
“press, reports brought to light a series of scandals involving former Nazi officials who favored a Soviet-backed proposal for a neutral Germany. Dolman's role in the affair is not completely clear to this day, but it was certain that he had…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 1:12:16
Mentions (63)
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During this time, Farinacci routinely fed information to Colonel Eugene Dallman, D-O-L-L-M-A-N, the SD's top asset in Italy. Dallman would later go on to play a crucial role in Operation Sunrise, in which Allen Dulles negotiated the surrend…
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along with elements of the SS. Dolman would be involved in Skorzeny's network for some time. It would appear that Evola had befriended Dolman at some point with his association with Vernacci. There has been speculation that Evola was workin…
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Ellenade, and the Iron Guard in Romania. It wasn't until the final years of the war, however, that Evola's relationship with the SD appears to have blossomed. After Mussolini fell from power in 1943, Evola fled to Germany with the assistanc…
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The guy writing this book says he is still trying to determine if Skorzeny and Ebola ever actually met. There are at least three potential links between them. One was already discussed with Eugene Dolman, who befriended Ebola while he was i…
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This is by far the most tenuous. While Evola received early support from the Gentleman's Club, the author of this book was unable to confirm if Slott himself had a personal interest in Evola or his philosophy. It seems most likely that if t…
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Borghese and his men were under the direct command of Carl Wolff, W-O-L-F-F, who later spearheaded Operation Sunshine with Eugene Dahlman. The X-MUS would later also be used against the Allied forces in the South, as well as U.S. Army Range…
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Timing of all of this suggests that they were all working together because they were. In 1952, Ebola's former SD patron, Eugene Dolman, would go to work for Otto Skorzeny in Madrid as well. During the same years, Skorzeny entered into his l…
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Eugene Dolman undoubtedly came closer to the truth when he wrote in his memoirs that a fading Hitler, pumped full of drugs during his final meeting in the bunker, gave Wolf a vague sort of permission to establish contacts with the Americans…
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Carl Wolf's name still stirred too much unease in Washington. Moving to the next chapter, rat lines. Carl Wolf was not the only prominent SS officer who was greatly benefited from Dulles' sunrise. In the fall of 1945, former SS Colonel Euge…
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The apartment, which was located on a thoroughfare, was a horse-shaped street in the city's exclusive Heroli district. It contained few distractions for the bored dolmen. But he did discover an extensive literary collection of sadomasochist…
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Mistress of Mussolini's. And he whiled his time by reading it. Dahlman was not an entirely free man. He was still a guest of U.S. intelligence officers. But even though he remained under close surveillance compared to his accommodations aft…
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Strategic Services Unit, which is kind of the middle between the OSS and the CIA. The agency, let's see, spoiled by years of the best Italian cuisine, Dahlman found the rations given to him so distasteful that he considered mounting a hunge…
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Then he was transferred to a POW camp in Escona on a lake where the daily fare was even more objectionable. And the inmates were forced to sleep in tents that floated away in heavy downpours. Dolman later had the nerve to compare that camp …
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And for those of you who remember our very first sessions, this is the camp that they put everybody in so they could escape, so they could be ratlined out of Italy, supposedly under the security of the UK. One night, Dolman found it remarka…
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where he knew he could find sanctuary. Here, Dolman presented himself to a well-connected cardinal of the Catholic Church, Alfredo Schuster, in his palazzo adjoining an enormous Gothic cathedral. Dolman found, as one of the Rome's more eleg…
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cardinal was part of a Vatican elite that had collaborated with Mussolini's fascist regime. He was inclined to help Dolman now to avoid an embarrassing war crimes trial. Besides, Schuster thought that men like Dolman might still play a usef…
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conniving by nature, but not political, was uninterested in the cardinal's plot, but he was in no position to quibble. He allowed himself to be safely hidden away in a church-run asylum for wealthy drug addicts, where his fellow inmates inc…
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Dolman decided to sample some of the forbidden fruit that the screen siren kept stashed in her room, heroin. For a time, Dolman, who had much to forget about in his life, was plagued by detailed memories. Salvation came in the form of James…
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would call him El Greco Face. His colleagues called Angleton the cadaver. He smoked incessantly and had coughing fits. Angleton must have struck the colonel as yet another strung out soul, but Angleton's addiction was of a more ideological …
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bound to listen politely since Angleton had gone to the trouble of saving him from the drug-infested Cardinal Schuster's madhouse. But Dolman had heard it all before, from Hitler and his SS overlords, how Bolshevikism must be crushed for th…
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as the Red Challenge. This included recruiting agents without concern for their fascist past. Dolman was high on their list as recruitment target. His continental sophistication and network of contacts, Dolman might prove a valuable espiona…
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As Angleton sat with him in the safe house, the American opened a bottle of scotch that he had brought along with him. Dolman was filled with utter contempt for his guest. He was talking like a young university lecturer who dabbed in a bit …
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Archangel, who had fled from the European, like the Europeans that had fled on the Mayflower. That was the connotation that he was making. He would ridicule the way Dulles had misrepresented himself at their secret sunrise meetings in Switz…
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While Dolman was unimpressed with Angleton's political lecture, he did appreciate the fake identity card the young spy gave him. The document, which identified him as an Italian employee of an American organization, afforded Dolman the conf…
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Dolman decides he's going to an old jewelry store. They were not impressed with him at all because during the war, they had not only imprisoned Italians, but had exported all of the Italian Jewish people to Germany. And the store owner who …
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contempt, like he wished he was dead. He couldn't believe he was walking back in a store. And he says to him, oh my gosh, I thought you'd, I was afraid you'd be killed. And Dolman looked at him like, you didn't care if I'd be killed or not.…
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courtesy. It sickened him, he said. He immediately left the store. Dolman had a love affair with Italy. Dolman had arrived in Italy two decades earlier, long before the war, as a young graduate student in Renaissance history. The young Germ…
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He was also embraced by German diplomatic set in Rome who appreciated his nuanced grasp of the local language and his entree into the aristocratic circles of Rome. His bilingual skills were increasingly in demand as the two countries' fates…
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by the name of Donna Victoria, who was the reigning queen of Roman salons. She had soirees that everybody wanted to go to. In the past, they had even been frequented by Mussolini family members. In Naples, he was invited to a midnight enter…
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The duchess, he noted, had a simultaneously charming and inhuman mouth. He later learned the story of her deformity. She liked to prowl Naples rough waterfront bars for her handsome henchmen, replacing them in quick succession. However, one…
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to prepare Dolman for the life he began when he joined the SS, where he would rise to become the link between Hitler and Mussolini. Dolman had tried to make sense of why he had enlisted in Hitler's Nazi core. It wasn't a political ambition …
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USS uniform possibly. Vanity was always a factor for Dolman. Dolman was always up to date in the latest Rome gossip. He was at the Hitler side whenever Hitler descended on Italy. And he was there whenever Mussolini and his top ministers lef…
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in Argentina and extradited to stand trial in Italy for his role in the massacre. Haas received a life sentence, but by then he was an old man. And because of that and his failing health, he didn't have to go to prison. Unsurprisingly, afte…
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Dolman was a cooperative prisoner, readily revealing the address of his apartment. When Pagnotta's team raided the apartment, they narrowly missed catching Dolman's famous roommate, Walter Roth, who managed to flee Tabari on the Adriatic co…
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When Rolf died in 1984 at the age of 77 after successfully rebuffing years of extradition attempts, because, you know, we'll just kill the new president that would be the most likely to extradite him in the overthrow of the Chilean governme…
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who suffered similar fates. When I got to Rome in 1946 as a young officer, he later said, I didn't need to read about the Nazi terror. My family lived it. All in all, young Bill Gowan had a pedigree that Angleton clearly found both appealin…
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Gowan might have been Angleton's social superior with much better connections to Roosevelt and Truman administration, but in the end, it was Angleton who prevailed at the spy games. In May of 1947, after Dolman had spent several bleak month…
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where he was safe from the wrath of the Italian political enemies and prosecutors. The clever Angleton had Dolman smuggle out of his Roman cell on a stretcher. In Germany, Dolman was soon switched to even more agreeable accommodations in a …
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sets as the propagandist Axis Sally, and Otto Skorzeny. Otto Skorzeny. Imagine that. The people that you are recruiting to set up Operation Gladio just so happens to end up at the same place as the soon-to-be trainer for Operation Gladio, O…
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After the U.S. military released him from incarceration, Dolman was a completely free man. There was sharp disagreement over suspected war criminals like Dolman within the U.S. military command overseeing occupation. General George Price Ha…
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on D-Day was angered by the treatment that Dulles' Sunrise Nazis received. Hayes, who became a high commissioner in the U.S. occupation zone in Germany, pointed out in a November 1947 memo that it was the U.S. Army that was responsible for …
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which he observed would condone their crimes without proper examination. Nonetheless, by 1947, many of the American military hierarchy shared the Dulles-Angleton view that this anti-communist monster that they were building had to be fed, a…
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The young man knew too much about Angleton's stream polling on behalf of Dolman and other Nazi fugitives who had been harbored at his safe house. Angleton suspected that Gowan's counterintelligence unit might keep extensive files on the rat…
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In November 1947, as Dolman walked free, the U.S. military moved to shut down the Nazi hunting operation in Rome. That month, Bill Gowan hopped a train for Frankfurt, which was to be his new base of operations. By the time the slow-moving t…
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told Gowan that he was working on a hot scoop and that Gowan was at the center of it. Pearson was going to report that a fugitive from war crimes charges in Hungary, where he had worked as an anti-Semitic propagandist for a fascist Arrow Cr…
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Pearson claimed he had proof, documents that showed Gowan had worked closely with this guy, Farik Fata, on various covert missions. As he listened to Pearson, Gowan was so flabbergasted that he didn't know what to say. Pearson's exclusive s…
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There was some truth to Pearson's report. Gowan did indeed know who he was from his days in Rome when he had used the Hungarian as an informer to help track down Croatian fugitive Ante Pavelac. He was the fascist leader to the Ustasi moveme…
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had led a genocidal campaign in the Balkans during the war that was so extreme that he had to be constrained even by the Nazis. With the help of Vasta, Gowan had traced him to a villa atop a hill. He was under the protection of Croatian off…
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From his villa, he was able to sneak into nearby safe houses through a series of secret passages that were honeycombed throughout the area. Gowan was perfectly willing to rely on a lesser criminal to gain a bigger target. But he had had not…
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But following his release from U.S. military detention in 47, Eugene Dolman's espionage career became such a flamboyant mess that he inspired some of the most colorful memorandums ever produced by the U.S. intelligence bureaucracy. Reading …
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what they ever saw in him. The U.S. surveillance of Dolman began getting interesting in 1951 when he was located in a suite at a posh hotel overlooking a lake in Switzerland near the northern Italy border. By then, he was living the high li…
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promised to be dishy with actual Nazi documents that he claimed to be authentic, including some written by Hitler. The colonel was shaking down the CIA for money, for exclusive rights, to examine the documents. Dulles said the CIA knew that…
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By November of 1951, Dolman was reported to be in close contact with Donald Jones, which was an intriguing twist since Jones was the OSS daredevil whom Dulles had asked to rescue, Carl Wolfe, from the Italian partisans during the war. Jones…
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The two are now divided because of a quarrel presumed to have originated over a question of money or perhaps jealousy, since both were suspected of being sexual perverts, the memo said. The memo concluded that Dahlman's value as an agent or…
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He was also stuck in purgatory in Switzerland rather than enjoying his sweet life in Italy because U.S. agents had warned him they couldn't guarantee his safety. Dulles would soon find himself in Italy anyway, at least briefly. After he out…
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In desperation, Dolman appealed to his old fascist friends in the Italian church. So he's a homosexual. He's caught having sex with a man in Switzerland and they kick him out of the country. So where does he go? The Catholic church. He is s…
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He was famous for his role in raising Mussolini's body from the grave on Easter 1946 in preparation for the day when Mussolini would be reburied with full honors on Rome's Capitol Line Hill. The Abbey had less spectacular plans for Dolman. …
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and the rest of the Old Sunrise team seemed to prefer avoiding a public trial. German courts convicted Wolfe of complicity in the murder of 300,000 Jewish people and sentenced him to 15 years in prison, 15 years for 300,000. He served seven…
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intelligence reports on CIA agents that he leaked to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Senator Joseph McCarthy, and other people that didn't like the CIA. Dahlman kept in contact with American intelligence after the war. Grombach wrote in a con…
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press, reports brought to light a series of scandals involving former Nazi officials who favored a Soviet-backed proposal for a neutral Germany. Dolman's role in the affair is not completely clear to this day, but it was certain that he had…
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The scandal in turn produced reports of Dolman's association with both the CIA and MI6. Dulles was somewhat abashed by the latest fiasco, Grombeck wrote, and left Germany in haste. So, he ends up working for the CIA. In time, the Swiss ende…
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For abuse of his visitor status, no court ever tried Dolman for his role in any of the horrific activity that he was involved in. And on the basis of his memoir, he today enjoys the reputation of being a not-so-bad guy. Dolman's colleague a…
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For abuse of his visitor status, no court ever tried Dolman for his role in any of the horrific activity that he was involved in. And on the basis of his memoir, he today enjoys the reputation of being a not-so-bad guy. Dolman's colleague a…