A most striking example is that of Nazi Lieutenant General Reinhard Gehlen. In 1945 he surrendered to the US Army – having stolen secret documents (German Military Intelligence data – Agent Networks and other valuable information). As a result, Gehlen was given the task to set up a department that would deal purely with the ‘Russian question’. Thus, in 1946, GelenOrg appeared – the goal of which was to weaken the USSR as a State. Gehlen formed this anti-Soviet organisation exclusively from Nazi German Officers. As a result, hundreds of Wehrmacht – and SS Officers – were released from Military Prisons and Detention Camps. It was these Nazi German War Criminals who determined NATO’s military and political course.