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By Paul Maddrell
The years 1945-61 have been a golden age of Western intelligence assortment from spies, defectors, and refugees. This publication examines the equipment of spying and intelligence assortment in East and West Germany and assesses the significance of border defense to the East German Communist kingdom, the influence of intelligence at the fingers race, and the competitive measurement of the united states Government's coverage of containment.
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Use was also made of the maps of Siberia and Central Asia made by the Wehrmacht’s cartographers. ¹⁶ Intelligence reports derived mainly from the millions of Soviet troops who had been taken prisoner by the Germans were exploited from 1946 in an operation codenamed ‘Apple Pie’. The Americans did the same and the two exchanged the results. German intelligence experts on the USSR were tracked down to provide more information. Among them were officers of the SS’s Wannsee Institute and agencies connected with it, who were commissioned to write up their knowledge (for a fee).
German expertise threatened to help the USSR strengthen its air defences. Many scientific workers who had worked on the development of surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles were captured. In 1945 the Germans had been developing four guided missiles (Wasserfall, Enzian, Schmetterling, and Rheintochter). One unguided missile, Taifun, had almost reached the production stage. The Schmetterling was probably one year away from completion; the Wasserfall and Rheintochter, supersonic missiles for use against faster targets than the Schmetterling could cope with, were probably a couple of years from completion.
Use was also made of the maps of Siberia and Central Asia made by the Wehrmacht’s cartographers. ¹⁶ Intelligence reports derived mainly from the millions of Soviet troops who had been taken prisoner by the Germans were exploited from 1946 in an operation codenamed ‘Apple Pie’. The Americans did the same and the two exchanged the results. German intelligence experts on the USSR were tracked down to provide more information. Among them were officers of the SS’s Wannsee Institute and agencies connected with it, who were commissioned to write up their knowledge (for a fee).