#BND

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Heinz Felfe Heinz Felfe was a former SS officer and KGB double agent who joined the CIA-funded Gehlen Organization in 1951, rose to chief of counterintelligence for the BND, and was exposed in November 1961 after a decade compromising CIA-BND joint operations.
Reinhard Gehlen Reinhard Gehlen was the Wehrmacht's Eastern Front intelligence chief who surrendered to American forces in 1945, negotiated CIA funding of his organization and its Soviet-bloc networks, and directed the resulting Bundesnachrichtendienst from its 1956 founding until 1968.

Bundesnachrichtendienst The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) is West Germany's foreign intelligence service, established April 1, 1956, as successor to the CIA-funded Gehlen Organization, staffed with former Wehrmacht and SS personnel under first president Reinhard Gehlen, and penetrated by KGB double agent Heinz Felfe who led its counterintelligence division.

West Germany The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany, 1949-1990) was NATO's frontline Cold War state, base of the BND and Gehlen Organization, site of major CIA and Soviet intelligence operations and Red Army Faction terrorism, before reunification with East Germany on October 3, 1990.