Talk:Gehlen Organization

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Awareness of Gehlen Org Members Who Were Nazis

I know the CIA knew, but did the President of the United States know? I hate to sound cynical, but the CIA has been known to keep things even from the President AVKent882 (talk) 00:36, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Org

Is the use of "Org" appropriate to Wikipedia?--Gaarmyvet (talk) 14:38, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It sounds bad to me from the Wiki point of veiw, but it seems to have been commonly used at the time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.148.113.216 (talk) 16:10, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Penetration of Gehlen Organisation

Gehlen was completely penetrated by DDR intelligence. The number 2 in the Gehlen Organisation was found to be an East German spy. The British dislike of Gehlen was due to the staffing of it with (ex?)-Nazis. On a practical security level if nothing else, they could by definition be open to pressure as many of them were potential war crime defendants. The Soviets knew this too, so they researched them, found out which SS units they had been in, who they had murdered etc. and used that information. This has been written about in various books. Many Gehlen agents simply stopped working for the Gestapo or SS-SD at the end of the War and then went straight back to work again against the Soviet Union - in theory at any rate. The Gehlen agent selection process was a gift for the Stasi and KGB.

None of this in this article. It needs a complete re-write. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.140.143.146 (talk) 19:09, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

POV

This article reads not so much as an apology for the group as an outright defense/justification of it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.18.4.90 (talk) 13:15, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

REPLY

Yes, you are correct; the right-wing boosterism is obvious. I shall correct the pov-pushing.

Chas. Caltrop (talk) 17:54, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Russian/Ukrainian/Polish/German place-names.

Today's English mainstream media uses "Kharkiv" and nothing else; almost everybody else in English speaking countries never heard of the city anyway....)

Well, I beg to differ, Yulia_Romero, at least in this context -that of WWII, and the Cold War. For this article, the old spelling will line up better with sources, which lessens the number of tendentious search results. Anmccaff (talk) 22:05, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

NSA files

It looks like there's a fair bit of declassified info from the NSA:

http://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB146/index.htm

Now whether this is a modified limited hangout or not is anyone's guess.

Kortoso (talk) 16:14, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]