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_aStewart, Gordon _eautore |
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_aSpymaster : _bThe Memoirs of Gordon M. Stewart, CIA Station Chief in Cold War Germany / _cGordon Stewart; ed. by Thomas Boghardt. |
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_aMnchen ; _aWien : _bDe Gruyter Oldenbourg, _c[2024] |
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_tFrontmatter -- _tEndorsements -- _tAcknowledgement -- _tPreface -- _tContents -- _tGordon M. Stewart and the CIA in Cold War Germany -- _tOur Family -- _tFrom Corning to Karlsruhe: Memoirs of a CIA Original -- _tIntroduction -- _t1 Childhood in Corning -- _t2 Adolescence in Oak Park -- _t3 Visiting Student in Munich -- _t4 Student at the University of Rochester -- _t5 Visiting Student in Hamburg -- _t6 Work and Studies in Chicago -- _t7 The U.S. Army -- _t8 The Office of Strategic Services -- _t9 Victory in Europe -- _t10 The Strategic Services Unit -- _t11 Heidelberg -- _t12 Karlsruhe -- _t13 Cold War Intelligence -- _t14 Pastimes -- _t15 The CIA Settles In -- _t16 Station Chief in Frankfurt -- _tEpilogue -- _tAppendix -- _tEmail by Peter M. F. Sichel to Alexander Branger, 6 December 2020 -- _tTimeline -- _tFurther Reading |
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| 520 | _aGermany was the epicenter of the Cold War. Across the Iron Curtain, hundreds of thousands of soldiers faced each other, and if World War III were to break out, contemporaries feared, surely it would happen here. The country’s frontline status made it an El Dorado for spies, who gathered information on military targets, penetrated political parties, and trained partisans for stay-behind operations. For the Americans, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) came to take the lead in this silent – and sometimes not so silent – contest. In the heyday of the Cold War, the agency’s German station employed nearly two thousand officers – in addition to countless spies and informants. Ultimately, this covert empire reported to the CIA station chief in West Germany and his deputy. And for many years, either of those positions was held by Gordon Matthews Stewart. Gordon Stewart was well prepared for this assignment. He studied German history and literature during the 1930s and lived in Munich and Hamburg as a visiting student. Here, he personally witnessed the Nazi takeover, even catching a glimpse of Adolf Hitler at one of his notorious rallies. When the United States entered the war in 1941, the newly established Office of Strategic Services (OSS) recruited him as a specialist on German affairs. In the summer of 1945, he arrived in Germany with an OSS detachment. Eventually, the OSS morphed into the CIA, and Gordon Stewart would run the agency’s espionage organization in Germany for some twenty years. From CIA headquarters in Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Frankfurt, and eventually, Bonn, Mr. Stewart directed all intelligence operations in central Europe. Initially, he hunted down Nazi war criminals, but the Cold War compelled him to bend his efforts toward the Soviet bloc. During the 1950s, Mr. Stewart directed espionage operations against East Germany, organized the training of Ukrainian partisans at U.S. bases in Bavaria, and participated in a scheme to dig a tunnel into East Berlin to eavesdrop on Soviet and East German communications. He also recruited and handled sources inside the West German government, including the chief of the Bundesnachrichtendienst, Reinhard Gehlen; the highest-ranking West German military officer, General Adolf Heusinger; and top policy-makers of the Christian and social democratic parties. Mr. Stewart’s memoirs, introduced by renowned intelligence scholar Thomas Boghardt, offer not only a fascinating look inside the CIA’s largest overseas station; they also tell the story of a deeply conscientious and highly accomplished intelligence officer, whose experience, intellect, and moral compass shaped American policy toward Germany and Europe during the turbulent years of the early Cold War. | ||
| 530 | _aIssued also in print. | ||
| 538 | _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
| 546 | _aIn English. | ||
| 588 | 0 | _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Nov 2024) | |
| 650 | 4 | _aDeutschland. | |
| 650 | 4 | _aKalter Krieg. | |
| 650 | 4 | _aMilitärgeschichte. | |
| 650 | 4 | _aSpionage. | |
| 653 | _aCold War. | ||
| 653 | _aGermany. | ||
| 653 | _aespionage. | ||
| 653 | _aintelligence. | ||
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_aBoghardt, Thomas _eautore _ecuratore |
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_aMoseman, Suzanne S. _eautore |
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