From Hitler's doorstep : the wartime intelligence reports of Allen Dulles, 1942-1945
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From Hitler's doorstep : the wartime intelligence reports of Allen Dulles, 1942-1945
Pennsylvania State University Press, c1996
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Chiefly a collection of telegrams from Allen Welsh Dulles, as head of the Bern Office of the OSS, to headquarters in Washington; based on the operational records of the OSS (Record Group 226) in the U.S. National Archives
Includes bibliographical notes (p. [563]-643), selected bibliography (p. [645]-652), and index
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For three years during World War II, future Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles commanded the OSS mission in Bern, Switzerland. From Hitler's Doorstep provides an annotated selection of his reports to Washington from 1942 to 1945.
Dulles was a leading source of Allied intelligence on Nazi Germany and the occupied nations. The messages presented in this volume were based on information received through agents and networks operating in France, Italy, Austria, Eastern Europe, and Germany itself. They deal with subjects ranging from enemy troop strength and military plans to political developments, support of resistance movements, secret weapons, psychological warfare, and peace feelers. The Dulles reports reveal his own vision of grand strategy and presage the postwar turmoil in Europe.
One of the largest collections of OSS records ever published, these telegrams and radiotelephone transmissions from the National Archives provide an exciting account of the course of the European war, offer insight on the development of American intelligence, and illuminate the origins of the Cold War. They will interest diplomatic and military historians as well as specialists on modern Europe. This volume is almost unique as document-based intelligence history and serves as a badly needed bridge between diplomatic history and intelligence studies.
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