Gehlen Germany's Master Spy Author:Charles Whiting Gehlen's memoirs are the sensation of Europe, the most important revelations by a German official since Albert Speer. Unlike Speer, Reinhard Gehlen did not go to prison-he went to work for the US Intelligence Agency, the CIA. A lifetime shrouded in secrecy is not easily studied or revealed. The General's memoirs prove that. However, Charles Whit... more »ing has clearly filled in many of the gaps, tracing Gehlen's early days as a German General Staff officer through his successful organization of a military spy system in the Soviet Union, to his post war years with the CIA and the founding of West Germany's own intelligence system. Through all, Gehlen remains the supreme analyst, the cautious sifter of the endless streams of information-the man who supplied most of what we knew of Russia in the post war decade, but most of all, the enigma: the master spy« less