05-06-2014, 08:03 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Anthony - thank you very much for this thread.
Plenty of excellent material and insightful analysis from Carl Oglesby.
Quote:Behold the span of this concatenation. First in the time of Trotsky there is General Vlassov and his anti-Bolshevist army and spy ring. The Vlassov apparatus is then at a certain later point assimilated to the Gehlen apparatus. Then just as the White Russian spies jumped to the Nazis when their own army went down, so now the German Nazi and Russian Czarist spies together jumped to the American army as the Wehrmacht was falling. Vlassov first became a department of Gehlen, then Gehlen became a department of Allen Dulles.
As important as this passage is, my judgement is that Oglesby's interpretation of Gehlen Org, the White Russians and the WASPs of the OSS reaches second base rather than scoring a home run....
Carl spent decades via FOIA attempting to obtain the Gehlen Org. records. He was finally successful in the late 90's. Boxes of records on his own FBI file and Gehlen filled the spare bedroom at his then Camb. apartment. They were ultimately donated, along with Carl's other works and records, to the liab. at U- Mass. Amherst (MA).
Some enterprising person in the MA area should do some research there.
Dawn
Great seeing so much of this downloaded here. Brilliant book.