Reinhard Gehlen Quotes
A showdown between East and West is unavoidable. Every German is under the obligation of contributing his share, so that Germany is in a position to fulfill the missions incumbent on her for the defense of Western Christian Civilization.
Despite his immoral and unsavory past, the Americans decided to use him and many of his German WWII operatives who were involved with spying in Russia. See {635149}. Note that he still maintained a Nazi view of racial superiority and hostility against all cultures and nations that were not Christian and Western. Hitler and many of the other Nazis thought that America and England should have been allied with him in his mission to destroy the Eastern European Cultures including the Christian ones from the Eastern Orthodox tradition.
Reinhard Gehlen,1902 –1979, German Nazi General, WWII Head of German Military Intelligence, U. S. Intelligence Operative in the Cold War, Director of Intelligence for West Germany, 1952
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Gehlen’s war crimes and knowledge thereof were overlooked setting a precedent for even allowing German and Japanese major war criminals into the United States. In those days, most men of substance belonged to one or more private clubs which was a important element of their social and professional lives. People of unsavory character were not welcome at such clubs.
1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. The English leadership knew that Germany would likely be the threat to England and the rest of Europe.
Kennedy was then a Senator with an eye on the White House. No such missile gap existed, and when Kennedy was elected President, he had the problem of public expectation for a problem which did njot exist, but he had been instrumental in creating.
This quotation illustrates the derogatory and disrespectful attitude that many high level American officials then had towards Arab leaders. No one objected to or reprimanded Symmes for his use of the word “mongrels”. And he was the State Departments leading expert on the Middle East and Arab Cultures. In the photo, Symmes is the gentlemen on the right.
He was exactly right. See {642079} for a perfect example of this prediction.
Bush wanted to expand NATO to include Poland and Hungary. However the German and American governments had previously (before the collapse of the Soviet Union) given promises to the Russians that NATO would never be expanded Eastward from East Germany. See {32678}. Bush went ahead and violated those promises anyway using the excuse that the agreement had not been part of a treaty. That decision had implications for Russian attitudes towards the United States and Western Europe. The Russians repudiated their agreements in 2014 and invaded the Crimea and took it from Ukraine. The Russians however had broken promises many time whereas the United States reversals of promises, like this were few. Bush’s logic however was not in keeping with traditional American standards. We made a deal with Russia when they were a strong superpower who could easily damage many of our national interests. However, when they were weak, we no longer have to do anything we agreed to when they were strong. The great irony was that reacting against Westernization of Ukraine, Premier Putin, by seizing the Crimea and successfully supporting ethnic Russian separatists in Ukraine put Russia back on the map as a major power in the world who could act with impunity against the interests of the West, Europe, the United States and the NATO countries. Most Russians rejoiced that Russia was again an empire that could not be dictated to.
A few months later, that is exactly what Germany did. She was hoping that England would not enter the war despite her treaty obligations, but she was willing to risk the possibility. The Czar had a strong espionage and intelligence service active in Germany, but, like so many other intelligence failures, the intelligence operatives and analysts had military and economic facts but had little understanding of the German culture which propelled Germany to what to most other cultures was “irrational policy making.” People and nations often engage in irrational activities, even against their own self-interest.
- Born: March 3, 1902
- Died: June 8, 1979
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Reinhard Gehlen was a German lieutenant-general and intelligence officer. He was chief of the Wehrmacht Foreign Armies East military intelligence service on the eastern front during World War II, spymaster of the CIA-affiliated anti-Communist Gehlen Organisation (1946–56) and the founding president of the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) of West Germany (1956–68) during the Cold War.
