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  • "Canaris," he muttered in a low voice, but the word stuck in his throat and died away in a whisper.

    The River of Darkness, or, Under Africa William Murray Graydon 1905

  • "Canaris," he whispered down, "I have reached the top of the cliff.

    The River of Darkness, or, Under Africa William Murray Graydon 1905

  • Leverkühn, the Berlin lawyer who had introduced Donovan to Warlimont and other German officers during the 1930s and had served as a Canaris intermediary in Istanbul, had been advising Donovan at Nuremberg on how to handle the defendants.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • It therefore appears that the closest the OSS ever got to a direct contact with Canaris was through Amoss and even that never occurred.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • Treating Canaris as if he had been an American collaborator, Donovan tracked down his wife, Erika, after the war and dispatched an OSS officer to help her settle her personal affairs.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • Lahousen was an Austrian Abwehr officer who had also been close to Canaris and had crossed paths with Leverkühn in Turkey.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • “Various members of the Canaris organization were also giving their assistance,” he wrote Donovan.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • A number of historians have speculated that Donovan and Canaris met while both were traveling in Europe.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

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

    Furies 2009

  • Amoss assumed it was because Hitler had sacked Canaris, as the press was reporting.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

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