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Legacy of Ashes: The Secret History of the CIA | Tim Weiner | Ep. 167

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Reinhard Gehlmann was a Nazi. The Americans we thought we could develop him as an anti-Soviet force. He ran intelligence into the Soviet Union for the Third Reich. His network was completely penetrated by the Soviets. So we signed up a guy, a Nazi, who come to find out, to our sorrow, was penetrated by the USSR. Richard Helms had been a reporter, a newspaper reporter, for United Press in 1936; he scored an interview with Hitler at 23 years old.

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