#WWII
3 entries tagged WWII.
People (2)
- Kim Philby Kim Philby (1912-1988) was the most damaging member of the Cambridge Five, a KGB agent who penetrated MI6 to its anti-Soviet section chief and CIA liaison, betraying Western intelligence operations for over two decades before defecting to Moscow in 1963.
- 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.
Programs (1)
- Operation Paperclip Operation Paperclip was the postwar U.S. program that recruited over 1,600 German and Austrian scientists from the defeated Third Reich, falsifying Nazi party records to enable their employment, with key recruits Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph later directing major NASA programs.