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THE RATLINES 145also succeeded Averell Harriman as U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union.Smith was to become an early member of the secretive Bilderberg Groupinitially headed by former SS officer Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.Gehlen’s self-serving proposal was accepted by Sibert’s military superiors,who did not know of the globalists’ control over the Soviet Unionand, therefore, were easily frightened by Gehlen’s description of this militarilyambitious “evil empire.” Under the proposal, Gehlen would operateinde pendently and as an equal, offering the Americans only the informationthey requested or he decided to share, but never in any way conflictingwith the interests of his Fatherland. In other words, virtuallyeverything the United States learned about Soviet aims and capabilities atthe end of World War II came from an anticommunist underground filteredthrough a Nazi organization with connections to the internationalfinancial elite.Carl Oglesby, author of The Yankee and Cowboy War, wrote that by1948, following the formation of the CIA, “Gehlen had grown tight withDulles and his organization and become in effect the CIA’s department ofRus sian and East Eu ro pe an affairs. Soon after the formation of NATO[in 1949], [the Gehlen organization] became the official NATO intelligenceorganization.” It has been made public in recent years that the Gehlenorganization received an aggregate of $200 million in CIA fundsfrom Allen Dulles.Much of Gehlen’s intelligence proved questionable, although this wasnot known at the time, since the Rus sians had tight control over informationbehind the Iron Curtain. “Gehlen flooded the Americans with ‘authentic’documents provided by the Byeorus sians,” noted Loftus. “Becausethe information pertained to Soviet activity in areas where verificationwas impossible, the Americans had no choice but to view Gehlen’s informationas genuine. In reality, most of the secret intelligence that Gehlenfurnished came from recently arrived émigrés, Soviet newspapers, andmail from Belarus and the Ukraine.”Gehlen went on to an illustrious career in spy craft. In 1946, he returnedto Germany and began forming an intelligence organization thatevolved into the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), or federal intelligenceservice, in West Germany. His cadre of 350 former comrades grew to more