Editing Great Patriotic War (section)

== Nazis defect to CIA ==
In December 1942, with the Soviets winning at Stalingrad, Hitler ordered the Nazis to begin peace negotiations with the Western Allies, seeking to shut down the Western Front and unite with the West against the Soviets.<ref name=":5" />

British agent Dick Ellis had set up the OSS (precursor of the CIA) within FDR's Cabinet, and its director was Allen Dulles, who represented US banks and often dealt with fascist Germany and Italy. Dulles was willing to make a deal with the Nazis, but FDR shut it down. Behind FDR's back, several Nazis reached out to Dulles. <ref name=":5" /> FDR died in April 1945, and his successor President Truman had no problem with the CIA using Nazis.

In May 1945, with the Soviets on the doorstep, Hitler gave his last speech, saying that Germany must remain "defensive" in the West, and "a powerful counter-offensive" would begin in the East. Around this time, Nazi troops were ordered not to shoot at Americans or Englishmen.<ref name=":5" />

Reinhart Gehlen, a leader of the Gestapo on the Eastern Front, also called "Hitler's Super Spy", fled to Bavaria to "surrender" to the US. They appointed him leader of the Gehlen Organization, which received at least $48,000,000 from the US government. Gehlen had about 5,000 contacts, mainly in Eastern Europe (behind the "Iron Curtain"). <ref name=":9" /> (Aptheker, p. 108)

Gehlen told his CIA handler that 28% of his organization were Nazi Party members. (In reality, it could have been more.)<ref name=":5" /> 

The Gehlen Organization worked extensively with the underground Nazi group "Schnez Army", consisting of up to 40,000 veterans of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS. They had an agreement to share intelligence.<ref name=":5" />

The Waffen-SS, SD, and Reich Main Security Office were transformed into the Nazi underground HIAG (Hilfegemeinschaft auf Gegenseitigkeit), numbering about 120,000 Waffen-SS veterans. The CIA worked with HIAG, protecting its chief's identity.<ref name=":5" />

Gehlen and the CIA also used the Association of German Youth (Bund Deutsche Jugend) to indoctrinate youth for Nazism and "against any kind of planned economy". <ref name=":9" /> (Aptheker, p. 109)<blockquote>The picture in Germany immediately after the war would be somewhat as follows: at the top a few “decent, neutral” statesmen who, at first sight, seem to have no connection with the Nazis. Behind and around them a great number of men who seem willing, even eager, to collaborate with the [Allied Military Government] and the occupying authorities in order to retain their positions. Behind them innumerable front organizations and Nazi cells biding their time, waiting, lying low. And finally, at least during the first period of occupation, the relatively small group or groups of those who wage active resistance, the guerrillas and partisans.

- Curt Riess, The Nazis Go Underground, pp. 184-185<ref name=":5" /></blockquote>Nazi Adolf Heusinger was appointed leader of NATO. Nazi Klaus Barbie became a secret CIA agent.

In 1956, the Gehlen Organization was transformed into the West German secret police, the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), remaining under Reinhart Gehlen's leadership until 1968. 

The Schnez Army joined the Christian Democrats and Kautskyites of West Germany. <ref name=":5" /> 

Gehlen's agents were involved in the [[Hungarian Uprising of 1956]], according to the NY World Telegram and Sun.<ref name=":9" /> (Aptheker, p. 110)