Modern historians have consistently condemned the Abwehr, Germany's
military intelligence service, and its SS equivalent, the
Sicherheitsdienst (SD), as incompetent and even corrupt
organizations. However, newly declassified MI5, CIA and US
Counterintelligence Corps files shed a very different light on the
structure, control and capabilities of the German intelligence
machine in Europe, South America, the Mediterranean and the Middle
East. It is usually stated that, under Admiral Canaris, the Abwehr
neglected its main functions, its attention being focused more on
trying to bring down Hitler. Yet Canaris greatly expanded the
Abwehr from 150 personnel into a vast world-wide organisation which
achieved many notable successes against the Allies. Equally, the
SD's tentacles spread across the Occupied territories as the German
forces invaded country after country across Europe. In this
in-depth study of the Abwehr's rise to power, 1935 to 1943, its
activities in Russia, the Baltic States, Ukraine, Japan, China,
Manchuko and Mongolia are examined, as well as those in Thailand,
French Indo-China, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines, Iran,
Turkey, Afghanistan, and the Arab nations. In this period, the
Abwehr built a complex network of individual agents with
transmitters operating from commercial, diplomatic and consular
premises. Before, and in the early stages of the war, it later
became apparent, the Abwehr was controlling a number of agents in
Britain. Indeed, it was only after the war that the scale of the
Abwehr's activities became known, the organisation having of around
20,000 members. For the first time, the Abwehr's development and
the true extent of its operations have been laid bare, through
official files and even of restored documents previously redacted.
The long list of operations and activities of the Abwehr around the
world includes the efforts of an agent in the USA who was arrested
after a bizarre attempt to obtain a quantity of blank American
passports by impersonating a senior State Department official,
Edward Weston, an Under-Secretary of State. Also, former U.S.
Marine, Kurt Jahnke, who was recruited to collect information about
the American munitions production and send it on to Germany. These
are just two of the numerous and absorbing accounts in this
all-embracing study.
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