The Folks at Fifty-Eight (50 page)

Name given to unified German forces 1935-45 (Did not include the SS).

Name given to units chartered by Himmler, for an ongoing guerrilla war under SS-Obergruppenführer Hans-Adolf Prützmann. The units were largely comprised of Hitler Youth. The majority surrendered, following an order from Grand Admiral Dönitz, but a handful of the more capable and experienced fighters refused to surrender and took to the mountains.

Russian. Head of Smersh 1942-46. Became Head of MGB. Infamous for torturing prisoners with his bare hands.

Princeton graduate, Wall Street Lawyer, former OSS member. CFR member. Senior State Department member, in Office of Occupied Territories. ‘Handler’ of Kube.

Yale graduate, former OSS member. Senior CIG member. Known as the ‘mother’ of Foreign Intelligence services in U.S.

Soviet spy/courier 1938-45, turned informer. Exposed two Soviet espionage cells in the U.S. The names she gave included no fewer than 37 Federal Government employees.

Mingrelian. Soviet Deputy Premier. Head of all security and espionage services for the Soviet Union 1938-53.

Georgian. MGB agent based in Leipzig.

Princeton graduate. Senior member of State Department’s Office of Occupied Territories.

Repressed socialite, wife of Alan.

Princeton dropout, son of Alan and Angela.

Yale graduate and State Department member. Member of wartime strategy team for invasion of mainland Europe (Operation Overlord).

Harvard graduate and Wall Street lawyer. Senior CFR member.

Russian. Former Red Army sniper and bodyguard to Beria. Former Smersh team member. For many years the NKVD and MGB’s top assassin.

German. Grand Admiral and Commander German Navy. After 1943, Hitler’s designated successor.

Head of the wartime OSS. Wall Street lawyer. Known as the ‘father’ of Foreign Intelligence Services in U.S. Only man to hold all four of America’s highest military decorations.

Princeton graduate. Wall Street lawyer and OSS member. Senior CFR member (Appointed CFR President in 1946). Later became the longest-serving Director of the CIA.

German SS-Gruppenführer. Succeeded Heydrich as Reichsprotektor and Reich Minister for Bohemia and Moravia. Audience of 5000 people for his public execution in Prague, 22
^nd
May 1946.

Former N.Y.C. Police Lieutenant, turned Private Investigator.

German. Former Wehrmacht Generalmajor and head of Eastern Front Intelligence Service 1944-45. Defected to the west in 1945 and ran a counter-intelligence service for U.S.

Belarusian cipher clerk, based in Soviet Embassy Ottawa. Defected September 1945. Provided the first documentary evidence of Soviet espionage activities against the west, and of spies in the Manhattan Project.

Princeton graduate. Former OSS member and Special Operations team leader. Senior State Department member. Later joined the CIA

Indiana graduate. Senior FBI agent, assigned to head the White House purge. Later joined the CIA.

German. SS-Obergruppenführer. Deputy Reichsprotektor Bohemia and Moravia. Hitler’s blue-eyed boy. The architect of The Final Solution (The Holocaust). Assassinated in Prague 1942.

Williamstown graduate. Former OSS member and OSO chief. Senior CIG member. Later Director of Intelligence.

German. Reichsführer-SS. Head of Waffen SS and Gestapo 1936-45.

First Director of the FBI 1935-72. Donovan’s main rival for control of Central Intelligence.

German. Gestapo Kriminaldirektor in Warsaw and Prague. Head of Bohemian and Moravian Intelligence service 1942-45. Defected 1946. Established Czechoslovakian and Polish counter-intelligence service for the U.S.

Russian. Physicist. Leader of the Soviet atomic bomb project, reporting to Beria. Tested the first device, a plutonium implosion bomb, on 29
^th
August 1949, ten years earlier than western intelligence forecasts.

Ukrainian. MGB agent based in Leipzig.

Georgian. MGB Agent, based in Vienna.

German. SS-Obergruppenführer Head of Section IV of Reich Security (Gestapo) 1939-45.

State Department and CFR factotum

State Department; later joined the CIA

Russian. Wife of Stanislav.

Russian. Survivor, Mauthausen Concentration Camp. Regional Head of MGB 1945-48.

Washington Socialite. Estranged wife of Gerald Hammond.

Russian. Commissar, assigned to the Dessau and Wittenberg areas of occupied Germany

Austrian fashion designer and wholesaler, living in Vienna.

German. Daughter of assassinated Nazi spymaster.

German. SS-Oberführer Head of Bohemian and Moravian Intelligence Service. Assassinated, Prague 1942.

Jewish. Holocaust survivor (Mauthausen) turned Nazi-hunter; worked with Wiesenthal in Linz.

Princeton graduate. Senior FBI agent assigned to the White House purge. Later joined the CIA.

Miami graduate. Former Rear-Admiral USNR and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence. The first Head of CIG, 1946.

Russian émigré and Soviet agent.

Switchboard Operator Camp King, Frankfurt.

Colonel. Officer in Charge debriefing section, Camp King 1945-47.

German. Oberleutnant. Former Luftwaffe parachute commander with the 1
^st
Fallshirm-Jäger-Division. Became leader of an Austrian Werwolf partisan unit.

Georgian. Born Ioseb Vissarionovich Jugashvilli. Soviet Premier and General Secretary of the Communist Party 1922- 53

Wealthy Washington socialite.

33
^rd
President of the U.S. Authorised the use of nuclear weapons against Japan. (Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 6/9 1945).

Lieutenant General U.S.A.F. Second Director of CIG 1946-1947 Considered a founding father of the U.S. Air Force.

Virginia State graduate. Wall Street lawyer, OSS member, and State Department chief. ‘Handler’ of Gehlen. Director of OPC (Office of Policy Coordination) which later became the espionage and counter intelligence branch of the CIA.

Lithuanian exile. Head of ATLI. Senior CFR member. Conduit for all significant European defections to U.S. 1943-57.

Wife of Conrad.