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  • Donovan delivered more than he received from Fitin; he sent the Russian reports on oil terminals in Romania, the location of German spare parts depots, Abwehr spying on the Soviets in Turkey, gossip Dulles picked up on Hitler and Göring, along with a sampling of OSS toys, such as the suitcase radio, pistol silencers, pocket incendiaries, and a portable microfilm set with miniature camera for agents photographing documents in the field.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • Abwehr charts on the agency were riddled with errors.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • While most of this was exaggerated, the Japanese military had, in fact, been surveilling our interests in various locations, just as every nation did to its potential enemies; the foremost operation of this kind in America, for example, was that run by the Abwehr, the Wehrmact's intelligence arm.

    Robert Slayton: AMERICAN TRAGEDY Robert Slayton 2010

  • The Abwehr, Gestapo, and SD had complete dossiers on the Czech engineer and closely watched the Western Electrik office, his front company.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • The Abwehr closely tracked Spaniards on the OSS payroll.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • While most of this was exaggerated, the Japanese military had, in fact, been surveilling our interests in various locations, just as every nation did to its potential enemies; the foremost operation of this kind in America, for example, was that run by the Abwehr, the Wehrmact's intelligence arm.

    Robert Slayton: AMERICAN TRAGEDY Robert Slayton 2010

  • Joachim Fest writes that Abwehr Chief Wilhelm Canaris was able to resist Heydrich by obtaining "documents proving his adversary's Jewish antecedents ..."

    Furies 2009

  • English lessons could not be held as the necessary text books were withheld on the orders ofthe Abwehr officer.

    History of Stalag XVIII A 2010

  • He was subsequently recruited by Germany's military intelligence service, the Abwehr, which gave him the codename Walbach.

    MI5 files reveal details of British agent's wartime treachery 2012

  • In the summer of 1943, Moltke had traveled to Istanbul both as a Kreisau Circle emissary and as an Abwehr agent for Canaris, hoping to use his American connections to make contact with U.S. representatives.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

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