From Hitler's Doorstep: The Wartime Intelligence Reports of Allen Dulles, 1942-1945Neal H. Petersen Penn State Press, 2010 M11 1 For three years during World War II, future Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles commanded the OSS mission in Bern, Switzerland. From Hitler's Doorstep provides an annotated selection of his reports to Washington from 1942 to 1945. Dulles was a leading source of Allied intelligence on Nazi Germany and the occupied nations. The messages presented in this volume were based on information received through agents and networks operating in France, Italy, Austria, Eastern Europe, and Germany itself. They deal with subjects ranging from enemy troop strength and military plans to political developments, support of resistance movements, secret weapons, psychological warfare, and peace feelers. The Dulles reports reveal his own vision of grand strategy and presage the postwar turmoil in Europe. One of the largest collections of OSS records ever published, these telegrams and radiotelephone transmissions from the National Archives provide an exciting account of the course of the European war, offer insight on the development of American intelligence, and illuminate the origins of the Cold War. They will interest diplomatic and military historians as well as specialists on modern Europe. This volume is almost unique as document-based intelligence history and serves as a badly needed bridge between diplomatic history and intelligence studies. |
Contents
November 1942August 1943 | 21 |
September 1943January 1944 | 117 |
FebruaryJune | 211 |
The Failed July 20 Plot Against Hitler the Liberation of Western | 319 |
JanuaryMay 1945 | 423 |
Epilogue | 523 |
OSS Code Number Identifications | 543 |
Certain Persons Residing in or Visiting Switzerland 19421945 | 551 |
Notes | 563 |
Selected Bibliography | 645 |
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