Disciples : the World War II missions of the CIA directors who fought for Wild Bill Donovan : Allen Dulles, Richard Helms, William Colby, William Casey

545 Pages·2015·20.26 MB·English

by  Waller

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THE WORLD WAR II MISSIONS OF
THE CIA DIRECTORS WHO
FOUGHT FOR WILD BILL
DONOVAN:
ALLEN DULLES,
RICHARD HELMS,
WILLIAM COLBY,
WILLIAM CASEY

CONTENTS
Cast of Characters
Epigraph
Prologue
PART ONE: PREPARATION
1. Allen Welsh Dulles
2. William Joseph Casey
3. Richard McGarrah Helms
4. William Egan Colby
5. War Clouds
PART TWO: WORLD WAR II
6. Washington
7. Jedburgh
8. Tradecraft
9. Switzerland
10. London
11. Milton Hall
12. D-Day
13. France
14. Breakers
15. Valkyrie
16. The Yonne Department
17. Fortress Germany
18. Norway
19. Assignment Europe
20. Casey’s Spies
21. To Germany
22. Sunrise
23. Flight of the Rype
24. Victory
PART THREE: COLD WAR
25. Home
26. Berlin
27. The Directors
Epilogue
Photographs
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Photo Credits
Selected Bibliography for Source Notes
Source Notes
Index
To Alex, Annabel, and Nathan
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Terence Airey. British Field Marshal Harold Alexander’s chief intelligence
officer and his representative in the “Sunrise” negotiations for a German
surrender in North Italy.
Harold R. L. G. Alexander. The British field marshal in command of Allied
forces in Italy.
Gerhard Van Arkel. An OSS officer who recruited spies among European labor
organizations in New York and later in London. He also worked for Allen Dulles
in Bern.
Mary Bancroft. She worked for Allen Dulles in Switzerland during World War II
and became his mistress.
Roger Bardet. A key aide to Henri Frager, leader of the Donkeyman French
Resistance network. Bardet betrayed Frager to the German Abwehr.
Ludwig Beck. A retired German general and former army chief of staff who was
a leader in the conspiracy to topple Adolf Hitler.
Hugo Bleicher. One of the Abwehr’s most skilled counterintelligence operatives
in France who infiltrated the Donkeyman Resistance network with informants
like Roger Bardet.
Alphonse Blonttrock. Radioman for the OSS spy team “Doctor” who went by
the alias Jean Denis.
David K. E. Bruce. The OSS station chief in London.
Wilhelm Canaris. The admiral in charge of the Abwehr. Canaris supported the
German plot to overthrow Hitler.
Franklin Canfield. The OSS officer in charge of recruiting and training the
Jedburgh commandos.
Sophia Kurz Casey. William Casey’s wife.
William Joseph Casey. The head of the OSS London station’s secretariat, then
the agency’s chief of secret intelligence for Europe. Casey was CIA director from
1981 to 1987.
Wally Castelbarco. An Italian countess and daughter of Arturo Toscanini. She
aided Italian partisans and had an affair with Allen Dulles.
Leo Cherne. The head of the Research Institute of America, where William
Casey worked as an analyst.
Colonel Chevrier. The code name for Adrien Sadoul, a French Resistance
commander in the Yonne Department.
Barbara Heinzen Colby. William Colby’s first wife.
Sally Shelton Colby. William Colby’s second wife.
William Egan Colby. An OSS Jedburgh commando who parachuted into France
and later led the NORSO team that infiltrated into Norway. Colby was CIA
director from 1973 to 1976.
Claude Dansey. The deputy chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
who oversaw its Swiss operations from London.
André Dewavrin. Charles de Gaulle’s intelligence chief who went by the code
name “Passy.”
Otto “Ole” Doering Jr. A senior Donovan aide who interviewed William Casey
for a job at the OSS.
William J. “Wild Bill” Donovan. The director of the World War II Office of
Strategic Services.
Allen Welsh Dulles. The OSS station chief in Bern, Switzerland, during World
War II and later CIA director from 1953 to 1961.
Clover Todd Dulles. Allen Dulles’s wife.
John Foster Dulles. Allen Dulles’s brother and secretary of state in the
Eisenhower administration.
Erich Fellgiebel. The chief of German army communications and a member of
the conspiracy plotting to oust Hitler.
François Flour. Radioman for the OSS spy team “Painter” who went by the alias
François Fouget.
Henri Frager. The leader of the Donkeyman Resistance network in France.
Frager was captured and killed by the Nazis.
Friedrich Fromm. The general who commanded Germany’s Replacement Army.
Gero von Schulze-Gaevernitz. An international financier and son of a Weimar
legislator who became a key World War II operative for Allen Dulles in Bern.
Hans Bernd Gisevius. An Abwehr officer who slipped information to Dulles and
became a conduit to German conspirators trying to oust Adolf Hitler.
Carl Goerdeler. A former Reich Prices Commissioner and Leipzig mayor, who
was part of the conspiracy to topple Hitler.
Arthur Goldberg. Goldberg worked for Allen Dulles organizing spying for the
OSS by European unions and later began an operation out of the London station
to infiltrate agents into Germany.
Ides van der Gracht. A lieutenant colonel who was Richard Helms’s boss in the
postwar Germany mission’s intelligence production division.
Franz Halder. The German general who succeeded Ludwig Beck as army chief of
staff and became a part of the conspiracy to topple Hitler.
Charles Hambro. The World War II chief of Great Britain’s Special Operations
Executive.
Georg Hansen. Hansen ran the Abwehr’s military intelligence functions after
Admiral Canaris was fired. Hansen also supported the German conspirators
plotting against Hitler.
Leland Harrison. The head of the U.S. legation in Bern during World War II.
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf. Berlin’s police chief and a member of the
conspiracy to topple Hitler.
Cynthia Helms. Richard Helms’s second wife.
Julia Helms. Richard Helms’s first wife.
Richard McGarrah Helms. William Casey’s assistant in London, chief of the
Berlin spy base just after the war, and CIA director from 1966 to 1973.
Max Egon Hohenlohe von Lagensberg. A Liechtenstein national and Heinrich
Himmler agent who tried to cultivate Dulles.
J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI director and William Donovan rival during World
War II.
Max Husmann. The head of a private school near Lucerne who served as an
intermediary in the “Sunrise” negotiations for the surrender of German forces in
North Italy.
Henry Hyde. An OSS officer who infiltrated agents into southern France and
later into Germany.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner. The SS general who was chief of the Reich Main Security
Office and the second most powerful man in the SS.
Milton Katz. William Casey’s deputy when Casey served as chief of secret
intelligence for Europe.
Albert Kesselring. The field marshal who commanded German occupation
forces in North Italy.
Ernst Kocherthaler. The German intermediary who introduced Fritz Kolbe to
the Americans in Bern.