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Hundreds of German [[Wehrmacht]] and [[SS]] officers were released from internment camps to join Gehlen's headquarters in the Spessart Mountains in central Germany. When the staff grew to 3,000, the Bureau Gehlen moved to a twenty-five-acre compound near Pullach, south of [[Munich]], operating under the name of the South German Industrial Development Organization. In the early fifties it was estimated that the organization employed up to 4,000 intelligence specialists in Germany, mainly former Wehrmacht and SS officers, and that more than 4,000 V-men (undercover agents) were active throughout the [[Soviet]]-bloc countries.

Hundreds of German [[Wehrmacht]] and [[SS]] officers were released from internment camps to join Gehlen's headquarters in the Spessart Mountains in central Germany. When the staff grew to 3,000, the Bureau Gehlen moved to a twenty-five-acre compound near Pullach, south of [[Munich]], operating under the name of the South German Industrial Development Organization. In the early fifties it was estimated that the organization employed up to 4,000 intelligence specialists in Germany, mainly former Wehrmacht and SS officers, and that more than 4,000 V-men (undercover agents) were active throughout the [[Soviet]]-bloc countries.

Under Operation Sunrise, some 5,000 anti-communist Eastern European and [[Ukrainian]] personnel were trained for operational missions at a camp at Oberammergau in 1946, under the command of General Sikes and SS General Burckhardt. This and related initiatives supported the insurgency in [[Ukraine]], which were not entirely suppressed until 1956. Operation Rusty encompassed gathering positive and counterintelligence information concerning the activities and organizations of an Intelligence Service and activities of various dissident German organizations. The operation involved close coordination and cooperation with foreign and other US intelligence organizations.

Under Operation Sunrise, some 5,000 anti-communist Eastern European and [[Ukrainian]] personnel were trained for operational missions at a camp at Oberammergau in 1946, under the command of General Sikes and SS General Burckhardt. This and related initiatives supported the insurgency in [[Ukraine]], which was not entirely suppressed until 1956.  

 

Operation Rusty encompassed gathering positive and counterintelligence information concerning the activities and organizations of an Intelligence Service and activities of various dissident German organizations. The operation involved close coordination and cooperation with foreign and other US intelligence organizations.

In 1948 contact was established with a supposedly anti-Communist Polish underground organization known as WIN. The group provided evidence of actions conducted against Soviet troops, and provided secret documents to Western intelligence. WIN was provided with [[money]], [[weapon]]s, equipment and intelligence data. But by 1952 people entering [[Poland]] to help WIN were disappearing and its information was becoming less reliable. Late that year the underground was suddenly disbanded and a radio broadcast by the Polish Communist government demonstrated, in detail, that WIN had been created by the Soviet secret police and had received Soviet help in deceiving [[the West]]. The documents provided had been [[disinformation]], the program had been financed with [[Western alliance|Western]] money, and the episode had distracted from other efforts to undermine the Polish communist government while it was consolidating power.

In 1948 contact was established with a supposedly anti-Communist Polish underground organization known as WIN. The group provided evidence of actions conducted against Soviet troops, and provided secret documents to Western intelligence. WIN was provided with [[money]], [[weapon]]s, equipment and intelligence data. But by 1952 people entering [[Poland]] to help WIN were disappearing and its information was becoming less reliable. Late that year the underground was suddenly disbanded and a radio broadcast by the Polish Communist government demonstrated, in detail, that WIN had been created by the Soviet secret police and had received Soviet help in deceiving [[the West]]. The documents provided had been [[disinformation]], the program had been financed with [[Western alliance|Western]] money, and the episode had distracted from other efforts to undermine the Polish communist government while it was consolidating power.