GI G – Men – Stephen Harding (1)

In conversation with other prisoners and with the camp’s female SS guards, de Maublanc heard that a new course of instruction was being given at the large SS training facility located on the grounds of the sprawling camp. Trainees—both male and female—were being told of the attitude they should adopt toward advancing Allied forces. When the capitulation of local German units seemed imminent, the SS members were told to discard their uniforms and destroy any incriminating documents.

The Allied troops were to be told by the now disguised SS members that they had always been opposed to the Nazi regime, they were ardent admirers of democracy, and they wanted to help in building a new, democratic Germany. As Fred wrote in his original report, the training at Ravensbrück demonstrated the “lengths to which the SS [is] apparently willing to go to preserve [itself] as a new underground in Germany.”1 A copy of the report was given to Gordon Sheen, and in March 1945, the SHAEF CI chief suggested that interrogating suspected “underground” SS members would be an ideal additional mission for the ALU, though Fred responded that such a task would require far more than the five agents that currently comprised the unit.

Fortunately, additional G-men were finally on the way. IN RESPONSE TO THE WELCOME NEWS that additional agents would be coming to Europe, on May 8, Fred Ayer sent Hoover a message outlining a proposal for the unit’s future organization and operations. In accordance with the wishes of both the Bureau and the Army, Fred wrote, the majority of the ALU’s members should be moved forward into Germany with SHAEF. The command’s CI Branch would be headquartered in Frankfurt, rather than Wiesbaden, as originally planned, and the ALU would share office space with Gordon Sheen’s organization and the SHAEF CIC detachment.

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But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. —MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO OceanofPDF.com Contents Prologue 1. Hoover Casts a Net 2. Our Man in London 3.

A Pound of Flesh 4. Agents to Officers 5. City of Light 6. The Curious Case of W. Dawson 7. Renegades and Monuments Men 8. Volksdeutschers, Renegades Redux, and the Lost Sigaba 9. “Horizontal Collaborators,” Angry Generals, and a Momentous Day 10. New Blood, a Very Big Fish, and New Horizons 11. Spymasters, Still More Renegades, and Legats 12. Suspects, Victory, and Storm Clouds 13. Turf Wars … and a Legacy Afterword Appendix: After the War Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index OceanofPDF.com J Prologue UST BEFORE NOON ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1944, a twin-engine C-47 Skytrain cargo aircraft of the U.S.

Army Air Forces’ 27th Air Transport Group descended through an early fall rainstorm toward Le Bourget airport, nine miles northeast of Paris.

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