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SUMMARY:Reinhard Gehlen\, British Intelligence\, and Communist Subversion\
 , c. 1945-62 - Christian Schlaepfer (St. Edmund's College)
DTSTART:20090428T163000Z
DTEND:20090428T180000Z
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CONTACT:Ilya Berkovich
DESCRIPTION:In 2008 the British Security Service (MI5) has released their 
 file on Reinhard Gehlen to the National Archives. Gehlen was one of the mo
 st interesting figures in the intelligence world of the Second World War a
 nd early Cold War. He was a general of the Nazi Wehrmacht and became chief
  of the German military intelligence on the eastern front in 1942. After t
 he war he was recruited by the Americans after the war and set up the so-c
 alled Gehlen Organisation - the predecessor of the West German Intelligenc
 e Agency BND in 1956 of which Gehlen remained head until 1968. The main ob
 jective of this paper\, however\, will not be to present Gehlen's career a
 s such\, but rather to examine the MI5 file itself and reflect on its valu
 e to the historian. It reveals information on methods used by Soviet intel
 ligence which were of great interest to the British intelligence services.
  The paper will use the information provided in the Gehlen file as a start
 ing point for a more detailed study of Communist subversion in the United 
 Kingdom and counter-subversive measures taken by post-war British governme
 nts and the intelligence community.
LOCATION:Drawing Room\, Fisher Building\, St. John's College
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