Reinhard Gehlen recounts his work in German military intelligence during the Second World War and the development of his postwar intelligence organisation. This paperback edition presents his memoirs in David Irving’s English translation.
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The Gehlen Memoirs offers a rare and riveting look inside the clandestine world of WWII and Cold War espionage, told by the man who lived it. General Reinhard Gehlen, the head of Nazi Germany’s military intelligence on the Eastern Front, didn’t vanish after 1945—he became one of the most critical assets in America’s postwar intelligence game.
Before fleeing Allied capture, Gehlen concealed a vast archive of intelligence documents deep in the Bavarian mountains. These secret files—recovered and revived under American guidance—laid the foundation for the Gehlen Organization, the shadowy intelligence agency that helped shape NATO's Cold War strategy.
In this explosive memoir, Gehlen reveals:
The untold story of Germany’s Eastern Front espionage network
The true motives behind Hitler’s wartime decisions
Revelations on top Allied spies, including Martin Bormann and ‘Cicero’
How U.S. intelligence quietly embraced Nazi operatives to fight Soviet power
Feared by communists, distrusted by allies, and hunted by enemies, Gehlen operated in the most dangerous corridors of 20th-century power.
This expanded English edition, richer than the German original, includes suppressed material and final insights never before published.
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