Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "WoodrowWilsonCenter" channel.

@garfieldfarkle I’ve been studying the OSS since the 1980s. There is a lot more defector literature and Russian archival information available now. NKVD recruited/turned the Germans at the end of the War. OSS loved them because they were area authorities with language and immersion/familiarity with the AORs of the Eastern European states. Russia had several moles within the Manhattan Project, and a lot of information has surfaced about how thoroughly that was penetrated and exploited. That all correlates with what Major Jordan exposed with Lend Lease’s transfer of enriched Uranium, Beryllium triggers, and 2/3 of material that was never reported publicly, and delivered to Stalin during the War. How much time have you spent in Russia?
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@garfieldfarkle I certainly haven't overlooked the OSS's official disbandment, but the personnel were still working, including Aaron Banks as one well-known example, who met with Ho Chi Minh and had his medic nurse him to health in Indochina. The post-War years between 1945 and 1947 had a lot of significant activity with former OSS types, while the NKVD was scrambling to reposition in the face of US checking of Russia's attempts to push more into Western Europe. One of the big games was identifying war criminals by Nuremberg standards, who were in the 4 main POW camp types run by Brits, French, Russians, and US. Germans who knew better tried to get captured by US, French, or Brits, while avoiding Russian captivity if possible. NKVD ran an extremely aggressive recruitment campaign during those years, and had a stick already in-place to assist them because anyone accused of war crimes was going to Nuremberg. This helped them with turning doubles. They got Gehlen, who had a very large network of Wermacht intel working for him. Why trickle up from the bottom if you can get the top-down? That was one NKVD strategy. They also pivoted off General Vaslov's Army penetration and exploitation from making him combat ineffective during the war, to using their key doubles to transfer over into BND and CIA. Lend Lease transfer of enriched Uranium, Beryllium triggers, and a laundry list of essential and exotic materials was documented by a Lend-Lease officer, who testified before Congress and wrote a book about it. Major George Jordan. Check his eye witness accounts out. He provided the list, which includes the other 66% of Lend-Lease articles that were never openly reported. Stalin built their first bomb with Lend-Lease materials and scientific data collected from within Manhattan Project. Detenté was one of the driving factors in that, along with treason and espionage.
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@garfieldfarkle During the interim years, Dulles and Donovan kept the former Wermacht intelligence people as assets, who then became critical people in Berlin Base and Langley when CIA was stood-up in 1947. They were exempted from being vetted via the usual methods, which is one of the main complaints Angleton voiced. Many of them wanted vengeance against the US and Britain for Dresden, even though they hated the Soviets about as much. Many were turned as triples, but not all. "The Family Jewels” was how extensively CIA was penetrated, and what they didn’t want aired out in the open. The embarrassment for Langley would have jeopardized the Agency, so they worked hard to keep a lid on how deeply and widely they were compromised so early on.
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CIA was mass-penetrated by at least 200 double agents/moles. The NKVD turned hundreds of Germans at the end of the war to be doubles in the new OSS, who then became key operators in Berlin Base and Langley in 1947. These were the guys Angleton was trying to expose, but was prevented from doing so by Donovan and Dulles.
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