Reinhard Gehlen, a general in Hitler’s military intelligence, kept all the files he’d accumulated in the war, and used them to cut a deal with American intelligence, and eventually vaulted his way into heading the German intelligence agency. Many of his agents and informants had been in the SS or other Nazi organizations and escaped prosecution. It was said that Gehlen had created a “state within the state.” There’s a documentary about him on TubiTV.
Yet another example of how these intelligence agencies have failed the American people since they began. It sickens me to no end that this country found it more important to coddle Nazi war criminals, claiming it was to gain intelligence on its so-called enemies, and all these years later, we still have no idea whether any of that "intelligence" these war criminals supposedly gathered, ever had a positive effect in the war against communism, or any other threats against this country. I've come to the conclusion that it was all a ruse, and a waste of time, because while we were fighting the commies in proxy wars overseas since Korea, the commies simply waltzed into this country, and took it over, without ever having to fire a shot. This country is so compromised, it will never recover.