
The Shadow Dossier — The West German Spy Chief Who Wasn't
In 1951, as West Germany rebuilt an intelligence service almost from nothing, a former SS intelligence officer named Heinz Felfe was recruited into the Gehlen Organization, the predecessor to West Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the BND. Felfe had genuine wartime counterintelligence experience, spoke fluent Russian, and rose quickly. By 1958 he headed the BND's counter-Soviet espionage section, the department specifically responsible for catching Soviet spies inside West Germany.
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