reserved under International and Pan-American Copy’ Published in the United States by Random House, | d simultaneously in Canada by Random House Originally published in Great Britain by “ Limited, London.hus, although after | the war US Army Intelligence chiefs Western Europe. It was Dulles who guided through the almost insuperable difficulties of 1 ting him alike from the rivalry and hostility of th Intelligence, men like General George V. Strong General Arthur G. Trudeau, and from British and F petition. Finally, it was Dulles who eventually enabled G Become the head of the Federal German Intelligence Service in which for several years was to provide seventy per cent intelligence required by NATO’s Military Committee and its S Group. s Not long before Dulles wrote his CIA memorandum, the Lieutenant-General Reinhard Gehlen had put at the disposal former American enemies his unrivalled knowledge and experien the communist world, and ‘of the Soviet Union in partic in the cold war which had just began. Gehlen can hardly h at that stage of Dulles’ ideal formula sonsua i leadership. Yet he followed that formula to the letter. ‘Admittedly, it was easier for him than for Dulles to ap to such strict rules. Since his childhood, at his school, and as a cadet-ensign in the post-war ™ been conditioned to obey authority unquestio resented by his father, his teachers or his litar ‘when he began working for the Americans, loyal service for a quarter of a cen Weimar Republic and then idl little sympathy. Reared_ she ae