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23. Lemnitzer had earlier been involved with Allen Dulles in Operation Sunrise

Sun Jul 5, 2015, 12:38 PM

Jul 2015

Operation Sunrise was an attempt by Allen Dulles in March 1945 to negotiate a separate surrender of German forces in northern Italy with SS General Karl Wolff while excluding both Hitler and the Russians. Wolff, a former banker and PR man who had been Himmler's chief of staff and was then made military governor of northern Italy after Mussolini's government collapsed, held talks first with Dulles and then a few days later with General Leminitzer.

(Russian objections to this apparent end-run around them caused the talks to fail, but the distrust it sowed may have helped lead to the Cold War.)

When the British charged Wolff with war crimes after the war, both Dulles and Lemnitzer intervened on his behalf. Wolff received a light sentence and was released in 1949. However, he was indicted again by the Germans in 1962, shortly after Dulles's resignation as head of the CIA, and was convicted in 1964. At that time, Lemnitzer -- who by then was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in Europe -- once again appealed for clemency in the case.

There's a lot to chew on in all this -- not only the Dulles-Lemnitzer connection but the question of whether they were still protecting Wolff in that crucial 1962-64 period, and if so why. Was it just old boys' club stuff, or was something more going on?

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