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The roots of the BND – the West German Federal Intelligence Service – go back to the postwar years, when Wehrmacht General, ret., Reinhard Gehlen set up an intelligence agency with the help of the U.S. Army and the C.I.A. The apparatus he built up, however, defied all criteria of rational organization. He employed a range of dubious and unsuitable individuals and was even engaged in the black market. To make matters worse, he massively influenced the West German architecture of security behind the scenes, becoming a factor in domestic politics with no accountability to anyone. Thomas Wolf uses previously inaccessible documents to offer a precise picture of the staff and financing of the BND, depicting its activities at home and abroad until the end of the Adenauer era.
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Author Biography
Thomas Wolf, born in 1985, studied history, political science, sociology, philosophy and education at Dresden University of Technology, conducted seminars, e. g., at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Potsdam, since 2012 research assistant with the Independent Commission of Historians for the Investigation of the History of the Federal Intelligence Service.
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- Publisher Ch. Links Verlag
- Publication Date October 2018
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783962890223
- Publication Country or regionGermany
- FormatPaperback
- Pages568
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleDie Entstehung des BND
- Copyright Year2018
