HST 540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Counterintelligence Corps, List Of Intelligence Agencies Of France, Israel Defense Forces
26 Nov 2017
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Module 7: a world divided: intelligence in the cold. Introduction: the post-second world war settlement, the advent of the cold war, & the emergence of the new states led to the establishment of new secret services across the global landscape. New alliances: soviet union & the us became the leading superpowers of the new world order that emerged by the late 1940s. In the fall of 1944 gehlen has realized that the. Nazis would be defeated & began planning a strategic surrender to the allies: his bargaining chip was a microfilmed copy of the. In 1945 gehlen & his senior aides surrendered to the american army counter intelligence corps. France: from free french to dgse: french secret services had to be recreated anew, the free french (the anti vichy french resistance movement) which cooperated with the allies throughout the war, had developed their own intelligence mechanisms. In 1946 these wartime operations were consulate into the external documentation counter-
