PART 12:THE CIA COVENANT: NAZI'S IN WASHINGTON:MULLER JOURNALS

The CIA Covenant 

Nazis in Washington

Muller's Journal's

by Gregory Douglas

Thursday, 5. April, 1951

As expected, the Rosenbergs get death! The other one (Morton Sobell, ed.) got 30 years in prison. The lawyers will now get busy but the end is preordained. As an example to others is what is said here and it has a chilling effect on the very liberal segment of American politics. There are still very many in this country, very quiet now of course, who view Soviet Russia as the hope of the world. They are not happy with the brutalities of Stalin but still admire communism as an "equalizing" system that is kind to cripples (such as themselves of course). 

It is expected that MacArthur is going to be replaced within the week. Here, he is viewed as either a dangerous man or insane. Or perhaps both. We know about his plots against Roosevelt and now we see him trying to inflict his will on Truman. There is no question that MacArthur would have dropped atomic bombs on China...and perhaps Russia...if he had them. The CIA hates him because he blocked any attempt on their part to open offices in Japan.

Hiss finally went to jail at the end of last month. He will be locked up for five years and be a left wing martyr for the rest of his life.

McCarthy is getting his knife into the liberal community and people are being accused and fired right and left. He will eventually either run his course or run for the Presidency. He has a very serious alcoholic problem and a terrible temper so higher office will be denied him. Besides, the party leadership decides who will be the candidate and never the voters.

Wednesday, 11. April, 1951.

MacArthur was fired today in a dramatic way. He has his people in Washington and got the news that he was finished. Truman has his people in Tokyo and found out that MacArthur was going to dramatically resign...and attack Truman in the process. Truman struck first and issued a statement just ahead of MacArthur.

A thoroughly expected but still unnerving public response. This is being written late at night and the papers as well as the radio news indicates a great wave of popular outrage directed against Truman. There are those who want the President to recant but he will not and MacArthur is finished. The drama has to go through the last act but the President has won this battle at least. Ridgeway is the Imperator-elect and is certainly doing a competent job in Korea.

Now that M. is out, the CIA want immediately to move into the Asian area where they can have ripe pickings, they hope, and make more international mischief. They already have their fingers in the European and Near East cake and now they are licking their lips in anticipation of meddling in Asia as well. Well, no doubt there will be more destabilized governments, more assassinations and certainly more money for their private accounts in Switzerland.  

I reminded one of my associates, not in jest, that now the CIA could get into the opium business and this one only nodded and said, "By God, I hadn't thought of that."

Soon we will all have our opium pipes courtesy of Allen Dulles and his academic clowns. And I am sure that this will happen with this nest of thieves.

The involvement by the CIA with Southeast Asian drugs has become well known in the years following the end of the war in Vietnam. Books have been written on the subject...when publishers can be found that are not susceptible to CIA pressure...but the degree and extent of this extracurricular financing is yet to be fully disclosed. 

Sunday, 15. April, 1951.

Heard from Philby about his dear friend Burgess. The latter was caught by the police speeding. He was taking a trip with a young homosexual, we know what for, and got caught. P. tells me, with great happiness, that Burgess will be sent home at once. 

He must have bitten someone in the Embassy but at least Philby doesn't have to put up with him. I will mention this to Harvey who apparently doesn't know about his frantic wife and her assignations with me. I have had to be nice to her to keep her quiet. I would have written "to keep her mouth shut" but that would spoil so much fun.

We have agreed that there would be no more love bites and certainly no more scratching or she would have to find solace with a Negro handyman.

Tuesday, 17. April, 1951

Very interesting reading today! My friend who is responsible for distributing the highest level secret documents to the bonzen (bosses, ed.) has given me, and I have made a complete copy of, a secret file about using the Chinese under Chaing to invade the mainland territory! This is called "Operation Paper" and has been in effect since February of this year. My copy was one of two, one for the files and the other for Smith.

When Chaing was being chased out of China, one of his top men, General Li Mi, moved south and managed to keep his command intact and moved south into Indo China and from there into Burma, where he assembled a force of three to four thousand men from the former Nationalist Army, the 97th and 193rd divisions. Here, they are enlarging their units, training them with guns supplied by both the CIA and the French. We are sending weapons through Sea Supply in Florida. The French are supplying them Japanese weapons captured at the end of the war. Also, several units of the Japanese Kempetai (the dreaded Japanese Secret Military Police, ed.) have joined these people and one of their colonels has come over here to act as liaison with Washington. I have met this man, a Colonel Saito (which I do not believe is his real name) and as he was with their army in Manchuria and is considered to be their top expert on the Soviets in Siberia, we had a most interesting series of conversations. More on him later.  

The plan is to use these men to physically invade China in large-scale commando raids, destroying as much infrastructure as possible, taking hostages (which will be killed after being tortured) and generally spreading terror in the countryside.

It is also planned to use CAT (Civil Air Transport, an airline wholly owned by the CIA, ed.) to move troops from Taiwan if these incursions prove to be useful. There is also a plan to develop bacteria that will attack and destroy the rice crops of China and thereby devastate both her faltering economy and cause starvation amongst her population. This is called Operation Kuan-Yin which is rather grotesque because it is the name of the Chinese goddess of mercy!

Saito, a real samurai type, is a first-class military man with a genuinely incredible knowledge of the Soviet Union and is fascinating to talk with. He knew General Ishii and spoke to me of the bacteriology factories in Manchuria. We both know that the U.S. is working frantically on developing various poisons and diseases to use on the Russians and Chinese if they should launch attacks on this country. Now that MacArthur is out, the plan is to proceed with these very deadly and clandestine operations, operations that MacArthur had blocked. Most conventional military men do not think along these lines.

It is interesting to note that M. wanted to use Chaing's men in Korea but was strictly forbidden to do so for fear of starting a major war in Asia. Now that he is out of control, the CIA is promoting this.

I mentioned the drugs to Saito who laughed and said that now the Chinese plan to make opium growing official so that they can raise capital by selling their products in the United States. Wars were fought over opium in the last century; the British to import it into China (for their usual profit of course) and the Chinese to keep it out because of the terrible damage it can do. The Chinese lost that war and eventually became a nation of dope addicts for which they can thank England.

Saito is very fond of a Japanese game called go that he plays endlessly with one of his staff that accompanied him here. Also, he in an avid practicer of kendo which is old-fashioned Japanese sword fighting, performed with armor and dummy swords made out of bamboo. He wants me to attend a small exhibition next week and kept telling me that I ought to study Zen, a Japanese religious regimen that is designed to allow its practitioner to perform physical acts, such as archery or sword craft, in a natural way and without thinking about it. Reflexive and spontaneous, under control. He has given me a book that I will read over the weekend.

Amazing when one thinks of it. I was the head of the terrible Gestapo and Saito was a senior leader of the Japanese equivalent and now we are both in Washington being very well paid by our former enemies to plan savage attacks on America's former warmest ally, Josef Stalin!

We both see the irony in this concept but others do not so we will permit them their self-delusions and take the money to the bank.

The British are in for more economic trouble. Because they insist on maintaining the trappings of a great power, they are insisting that it is better to spend billions of pounds on a stupid rearmament program than on public services so their people will still have rationed food (if that's what they call the swill in England). The government has pushed up taxes on almost everything and the public will suffer accordingly.

This is utter stupidity because what would England do with a new army? Invade America (which she would love to do but she tried it twice and was thrashed for her pains) or her old enemy, France? There is nothing to invade in Germany and Russia is far too powerful. Perhaps she can invade Norway and seize all the sardine factories or Denmark and terrify the cows. Their once magnificent Navy is either at the bottom of the sea or has been melted down to make piss pots so they can concentrate on their army and hope to terrify Ireland or Iceland. Such idiots!

Friday, 20. April, 1951

Another Fuhrer birthday to be celebrated (in private). Bunny is busy being pregnant and so the staff and I got together for a nice lunch followed by a round of toasts. I broke my rule and had a very fine champagne to honor the occasion.

Much satiric comment here and at the White House about MacArthur's big speech to Congress yesterday. Thank God he is out of the way. If he was planning to take advantage of the upsurge of public interest in him, he is far too early. When the convention assembles, he will be very cold coffee indeed. All in all, however, a very good speaker and he makes a good presence.

The anti-communist activities have spread to Hollywood, a cesspit of left-wing activity and many are being exposed and attacked. I told McCarthy the other day that he and MacArthur ought to run for the Presidency. They could draw cards to see who was going to lead the ticket. He actually believed me and began to preen like a parrot, an alcoholic one. He insulted Truman and then blamed it on the alcohol. Drunks blame everything on the alcohol including their inadequacies, impotence, chronic flatulence and skin rashes. McCarthy looks like the kind of man you would hire to clean your furnace or put down fertilizer on the lawn. Still, worse have gotten into the White House and there may be worse to come. 

Congressman Nixon from California ran into me the other day in the lobby of the University Club. A friendly chat and I commented on the proximity of the Soviet Embassy to the building. He is obviously a very ambitions young man so I have invited him and his wife to come down to visit. His wife is a very attractive blonde woman who, according to Nixon, is of German background. We also talked about Hiss and Chambers and will no doubt continue the conversation later under less crowded conditions.

An entertaining thought: I might invite Viktor down when the Nixon's come. It might be an entertaining day...at least for me!

Sunday, 22. April, 1951

A long and very interesting talk today. Viktor and his wife came down, leaving the children with a governess, and we had a pleasant lunch with Bunny and Arno also at the table. Afterwards, the two ladies went off somewhere and the three of us went out onto the terrace for a pleasant afternoon talk.

This turned on the CIA, its motives and more especially, its overall effectiveness in its job. This agency was set up to keep an uninformed President current with world affairs. It has not done this. What it has done is to attempt, sometimes with success, to influence the President to support its own goals.

And what are these goals? Quite frankly, like the SD in Germany, they have their world-view and because they have it, it must be a correct view and the President must be made to support it.

And what is this world-view? Nothing at all. They have no real knowledge of anything outside inter-office politics and their social life. For example, I know of very few CIA leaders who understand one word of Russian or who have even the slightest idea of the history of that country and the dynamics of the communist movement that now runs it. They have no real knowledge of Stalin who to them is nothing but a shadow puppet with which to frighten the President and his advisors, as well as the American public, into believing that the CIA and that agency alone is capable of protecting this country against the military adventures of Josef Stalin.

For another example, somewhat more distant but nevertheless very indicative, (Allen W. ed.) Dulles was the OSS chief in Switzerland during the war. I have direct knowledge of his activities, have read through many of his reports from the period and had the opportunity of talking to him. He is thoroughly ignorant of what he was supposed to be dealing with, is not proficient in German, was hoodwinked by a number of my people and in general was worth at least a battalion to me.

Now, he poses as a master spy who defeated Hitler! 

These people (the CIA, ed.) have a great deal in common. They are all members of the Establishment who know each other or have mutual friends or family connections. Most of them went to Yale, Harvard or Princeton, were members of exclusive student clubs and inter-married with each other's cousins, sisters or whatever.

They do not understand their putative enemy and never will. It is true that many are very intelligent but there is a great canyon between education and intelligence.

They actually have no agenda other than to achieve supreme power where they can implement their ill-planned schemes that sound to both Viktor and myself like Karl May novels (Karl May was a 19th century German writer who wrote about American cowboys and Indians and was very popular in Germany. Although exciting reading, May had no real knowledge of his subjects. ed). 

The men of the NKVD, as witness Viktor, are very often quite fluent in English, very clever and possess a great understanding of the American psyche. There is no question that the CIA has never penetrated their ranks but there is also no doubt that the NKVD has penetrated theirs. Many OSS men were very pro-communist and worked closely with the Soviet intelligence during the war and a significant number of these OSS men went directly into the new CIA. 

What the young Harvard men like is the sense of intellectual power. Although it would be beneficial to everyone if the United States and Russia were to downplay their animosities, it is not to the liking of these Young Turks to permit this.

Stalin, after all, views America as a nation that once supported him wholeheartedly and now seeks to destroy him. Stalin needs money and trade to help him rebuild his country but that is something he will never get here. Stalin sees America as trying to destroy him and being Stalin, fights back. He does this with probing attacks or simulated attacks as witness the Berlin blockade and the current war in Korea.

There is no doubt Stalin egged on the Chinese and North Koreans to carry out a proxy war for him. He is an expert at testing people. If they resist, he will back down as long as he can save face in the process.

This country has now been drawn into a war that is not popular and a war that eventually will destroy Truman's reputation. Stalin was pleased with Roosevelt, although he viewed him personally with great contempt, because R. gave him what he wanted without presenting any kind of a bill. Truman immediately began to discuss the bill when he became President by default and Stalin can never forgive him for that. 

I am supposed to be an expert on anti-Soviet counterintelligence but I find the people I work with under the assumption that I am an expert on Soviet political intentions! I am in and out of my office but always there is someone who wants to ask me some idiotic questions about oil production at Baku or the latest Soviet tank model!

I cannot possibly answer these stupid questions and it's like using a surgeon's scalpel to cut wood with. No one, except the President, bothers to read my papers and since I have no interest in attending their drunken dinners and mindless attendance at school football games, they are more or less leaving me alone.

Never mind. Thanks to my new connections, I am making a fortune on the stock market and have cut back on the art business. Some day, some horse-faced idiot will come forward and screech that this or that painting was stolen from his grandmother's house. Then there will be trouble with the auction houses or the galleries and I will have to get Arno to pay the owners a visit at home and shut them up. Or more to the point, as Arno says, visit the squealer and send him down to see Charon with his penis instead of a coin in his mouth. For a well-educated and pleasant young man, Arno can be very unpleasant at times. He even frightens Viktor once in a while but Viktor likes his intelligence and probably thinks Arno is having him on.

He is not. 

Arno wants to get married to Heini's lovely sister and I think it would be a good idea. She will have to come down here to live because Arno has no interest in going to Iowa and living in a farm community. I did tell him that he could make a good living killing hogs with his knife but he would rather take extra classes at Georgetown.

All in all, it was a pleasant afternoon and we shall have to do it again.

Tuesday, 24. April, 1951.

Truman has now swung over to the right and is going to permit the discharge of governmental employees if their loyalty is in question. It's about time they started to clean out these Augean stables. Since these pogroms have begun (actually before I got here) thousands have resigned and about three hundred have been fired. Hoover is chasing after perverts and they are quaking in their boots over at State.

We are going to get to get together in the near future with some of the Chrysler family who live in the neighborhood and Bunny knows through school. Also, we are having some friends of Bunny's down who are descended from the Ramsay family that founded Alexandria as well.

I find the old aristocratic families much better to take than the crass, pseudo- intellectuals of the government services.

An interesting sidelight from Bunny. 

Back in the 1860s, there was a businessman and banker named Levi Z. Leiter. He was a Jew and involved in all kinds of businesses, including a clothing business in Chicago. (Field and Leiter, later Marshall Field and Co., ed.) Part of the family lived in Washington and cut a swath in local society. One of them was direct ancestor of Winston Churchill! Now one can see why Churchill hates the Germans so much. Roosevelt had the same sort of background. His ancestors were Sephardics from Spain named Campo Rosso (or 'Field of Roses') who fled to Germany after Ferdinand and Isabella took over Spain and forced all the Jews to convert. In Germany, near Aachen, the Campo Rossos became 'Rosenfelds.' In the early 17th century, one of them, an Isaac Rosenfeld, was burnt by an ecclesiastical court for breaking into a church and profaning the Host. The rest of the family fled to Haarlem in the Netherlands and changed their name once more to 'Rosenvelt' which, again, means the same thing. One of them came to America, changed his name and his religion and produced two Presidents!

Again, one understands Roosevelt's animosity towards the Germans. However, in spite of his background, he personally hated Jews and did everything he could to keep them from coming into this country when we were trying to chase them out of Germany.

This self-hatred is well known and has produced a great deal of sorrow in the world.

The war in Korea marches on. Behn is having a private dinner at the Metropolitan Club for a few influential friends and I have been invited. Clark Clifford is sniffing around me, trying to break into various circles I am connected with but so far, I have managed to elude his wiles. I do not like nor trust the man although Truman thinks that the sun shines out of his asshole (as Angleton said last week). 

Wednesday, April 25 1951

Robert came by my office today with an aide who brought several boxes of intercepted Soviet documents. These are from the TICOM (Target Intelligence Committee, ed.) This comes to me because I have had dealings with (Dr. Erich, ed.) Hüttenhain in the past. He has been the best insofar as the decryption of Soviet messages are concerned. Now, we are using German machines to spy on not only the Russians but our delightful allies as well! This department here is full of Germans...a mixed bag of Abwehr, SD, Gestapo and Reichspost plus some Luftwaffe boys. Most of the SS people are on the “automatic arrest” and “forbidden entry” level but no one pays any attention to that here and, thank God, the Jews have shut up now that we are charging many of them with being Soviet spies. If we did not do this, they would wail and howl about “evil Nazis” running around Washington. As Smith said, ‘Better to have professional German intelligence people here than that damned pack of communist Jews that Roosevelt shoved off on us!’

TICOM material is vital to us now and I am highly entertained when the Americans discovered that we were breaking many of their codes. Of course now there is much talk about the Enigma (German military encryption machine, ed.) victories. Of course we knew that they had the capacity to break this. We knew they had broken the Japanese code machine patterns and we tried to warn them but they wouldn't believe us. When Hitler planned the Ardennes attack in December of 1944, Hitler gave specific orders that no messages concerning this attack were to be processed through Enigma and we took the Amis completely by surprise. Now we know what Comrade Josef and DeGaulle are saying, not to mention the highest level governmental and military British message traffic!

One of the fellows I lunch with regularly was with the Einsatzkommando and was a specialist in Soviet bandit groups. He was the overseer of a radio interception unit for the SD and took part in many an action against the bandits. They took only a few prisoners and executed the rest. Since the leadership of these groups and many of the members were Jews, I shudder to think what Hollywood would do with all this! Still, we are in the midst of a de facto war with the Soviets and since the Jews run that murderous state, they can’t complain if they get fried. And they couldn’t complain earlier when we wiped out their bandit groups. Of course they couldn’t because we wiped them off the map. The friendly Poles liked to chase such rodents into barns and then burn them down but we are more correct and only hung them up in the trees or shot them.

We have a Pole here, one Juliuz Kowalski, who works in the clandestine services and who is the worst enemy of the Jews I have ever seen. I try to keep away from him as much as possible because he sounds worse than Streicher!

We see that Comrade Josef is not happy about the Zionists in Prague giving all the weapons to Israel and the end of the Slansky murder gang will no doubt improve the standard of living in Prague.

I will have Robert bring me these intercepts as often as he can and will analyze them as soon as I can. 

Having trouble with one of my teeth and will have to go to a dentist. We have one on the payroll as the bosses are worried that someone might say something indiscreet while under the gas. 

The ‘Robert’ mentioned in Muller’s journals was Robert Trumbull Crowley, a very early member of the CIA and later the Deputy Director of Clandestine Activities. He basically “ran” Muller, who was technically an employee of the U.S. Army, while Muller was resident in the United States. Muller’s other control was Colonel James Critchfield who also ran the Pullach-based Gehlen Organization for the CIA from 1948 through 1955, and controlled Muller while he was living in Switzerland.

Friday, 27, April, 1951.

The CIA has been buying up the leadership of the trade unions in both Italy and France (England is a lost cause for us) and Angleton is turning his Sicilian Mafia friends loose on those people in Italy that are blocking our progress. They have killed six so far but Togliatti has managed to escape. Angleton's stories about life with the Mafia are quite interesting indeed and we all know that he has a hand in the Cuban casinos and makes money with it. I often wonder what the casino bosses thought when they found their two monkeys dead in that Havana alley. If Arno was up to his usual tricks, no doubt they were terrified. Behn says the Mafia is a fact of life and one should simply learn to live with them. Hoover is afraid of them because they have "gotten something" on him, so his pursuit of them is desultory at best. The Colonel, on the other hand, hates perverts and communists, makes no distinction between an ultra-left wing sympathizer and practicing agent. The former are deluded idiots who ought to be stripped naked and paraded through the streets but the professionals one should deal with differently.

I have never met one that could not be turned. That is, if they are truly professional. The ideological ones like the Rosenbergs should be sent off to the galleys or thrown into the river encased in concrete. One can say this about the Mafia: they are all businessmen and hate the communists with a passion.

That makes them useful allies indeed...at times...but dangerous ones. If they do you a favor, they wish to have it repaid with interest.

Next week or thereabouts I have to go to New York. I will get together with Behn at the Knickerbocker, go to the Metropolitan, check out several antique galleries, one of whom sold a Kandinsky for me and with whom I have a credit. Maybe I can get something by a real artist. Also, to see (Francis, Cardinal, ed. ) Spellman for a private interview regarding McCarthy's rampages in Hollywood. I am told the Holy Father (Pius XII, ed.) is delighted that we are finally putting our house in order. Maybe I can get a nice Papal decoration out of them for all my help and certainly because of my support in certain delicate matters. Catholics are not particularly welcome in the upper branches of the CIA, all of whom are Episcopalians or Zen Buddhists, so I am their man on the inside.

I have about used up all my various false identifications and will have to get more. It is a nuisance not to be able to be a fixed person but that is the way it goes. 

"What a great scandal" I am told, if someone should discover who I really am.

Firstly, no one would admit knowing me; everyone would deny knowing me and all would point and demand justice for having tricked them so cleverly! But they won't do this at all because I have enough serious information on each and every one of them to terrorize them if I have to. I terrorized Wisner who no doubt wets his pants each time I come into his office. The CIA now goes to enormous lengths to protect me but mostly for their own safety, not mine! I do not own my car; have three driver's licenses, one for Maryland, and one for Washington and one in Virginia, all with different names! And six passports, five American Social Security numbers, a pilot's license, four permits for concealed weapons and so on. My home here is in another name, my home in Washington was rented by the Government, and my home in Colorado is in yet another name. Behn knows who I am and has assisted me in joining a number of very exclusive clubs...three under three different names! Of course I cheat terribly on my income taxes and no one is going to catch me on that issue either.

And six checking accounts, three savings accounts, ten safe deposit boxes all in American banks, two checking accounts and two safe boxes in a Canadian bank, real estate in Canada, the United States and Spain, all under different names. I have a record of all this important nonsense so that if anything happens to me, Bunny can reclaim my assets.

I have been discreetly selling off those paintings and other works of art that might make serious problems if found. My Titian is still with me but I sold the Signorelli to Behn for a fraction of its price. Of course it was officially burnt up in the Zoo Flak tower in 1945 but they never found a trace of it and if it showed up in his hands, even the weak puppet government in Bohn could probably get it back and it would embarrass Behn.

He knows enough to keep it hidden but he does admire it. I told him I was aiming for a Papal decoration and he thought it interesting. He collects decorations and has several rather fancy ones. You ought to see him when he is all dressed up. Looks like a minor potentate from a Balkan country.

I am going to give the Rothschild chess set, which is rather ugly but very valuable, to Viktor for Christmas. I got it free from the CIA in Switzerland and my own set is very simple and I have had it for many years. These gold, jewel-encrusted things have intrinsic value but are in such bad taste. Of course the Rothschilds never had much taste in fine art (although they do produce wonderful wines) anyway, just a lot of money. I am certain the set is not "Gothic" but early Weininger (a Viennese goldsmith who forged artwork in the nineteenth century, ed.) but it is still a very valuable set and should make Viktor happy.

Viktor and I were laughing about our "aliases" the other day and he said if I took him out into genteel society, please to tell him which name I was using this time!

Bunny, who knows all about this, calls me the 'Great Scandal' but my reply is that I have lost weight and my stomach is as flat as a washboard and one could grate oranges on it. The bite marks have gone away and I have now resumed the nuptial bed again. 

Sunday, 29. April, 1951

My birthday today and Bunny, who has been having problems associated with the pregnancy, had a surprise for me. The staff and a few friends were down in the afternoon and we had a very pleasant musical afternoon. Bunny played Bach's Musical Offering knowing how much I love it and this was followed by a very good baritone singing a number of songs, including 'Che faro senza Euridice?' from Gluck's "Orpheo" which is another of my favorites. In the early evening, we had white sausages from Munich and a keg of good German beer that were flown in as supercargo on an Army plane. The staff and I enjoyed the German feast more than the French one we had for lunch and everyone sang songs and in all, I had a very pleasant time.

Long conversation with Bunny after the guests left. She tried to apologize for her moods but I stopped her and said that I certainly understood these things and expressed my concern for her...for our first child. All in all, she is very level headed which is one of the reasons I married her. She suggested that we celebrate the Chief's birthday (April 20th, Hitler's birthday, ed.) and mine on a day in between and somehow the subject of a cousin of hers came up. It seems he was born the day before Christmas and the family decided to save money by giving him one set of presents. When he got older and married, he told his wife and her family that he was born in July! 

Thursday, 3. May, 1951.

I have the opportunity to go to Europe! This time, partially on business where I am to get together with Krichbaum and others and partially on pleasure. I will wish to attend several music performances, Salzburg, Beyreuth, Ansbach and so on. An opportunity to revisit Munich, see a few relatives and old friends and then back again in August. I will have my usual protection and my papers will indicate I am with U.S. Army intelligence. Either that or a minor diplomat but I want no connection with the State Department so it will probably be the Army. Bunny will go, of course, if the timing is right and her pregnancy is not too far advanced. The child will be born sometime in September so if we go in July, Bunny will be seven months along which is on the borderline as far as I am concerned but she seems not to worry about it. We shall see.

It will be interesting to go back. I read a novel recently by Thomas Wolfe, a very great American writer, now dead, entitled "You Can't Go Home Again." Perhaps one actually can. This is merely sentimentality but we are all guilty of that once in awhile!

There have been a series of meetings at the CIA concerning its expansion into the academic field. All very tentative but certainly projected to be executed as soon as the structures are approved.

The CIA now feels that it wants to get as much insight...and control...in important areas as it can. It wants domestic surveillance (which puts it in conflict with Hoover's FBI) communications overviews (such as the telephone system, the telegraph system and eventually, the mails), the development of new technology that might be of use to it such as radar, new aircraft, advanced weapons systems and so on. Also on the agenda is a plan whereby foreign students, studying in the U.S., can be observed and if it is decided they might be useful, means by which they could be recruited to serve the CIA. I would say, "to serve the United States and its interests" but the CIA is not the United States but a country-within-acountry. It has no loyalty to the U.S. but only to itself and its own goals.

If these goals conflict with those of the nation, the CIA rules (in its own mind).

Students who might be considered as future leaders or important political or military figures (VMI students and so on) in other countries, are to be "turned", either with bribes or better, by being caught in embarrassing sexual acts and blackmailed.

As Dulles says, "A bought man ought to stay bought and a file on his bad acts is always a means to be certain he stays bought."

No one here anticipates any problems with the schools (MIT is slated to begin the drive because of the technology produced by it and the type of students who attend it) and I am told that academics have to be beaten off with clubs, so eager are they to get CIA money.

Most of these professors are a sorry lot. They don't make much money, are susceptible to bribery, like to be flattered and have a surprisingly low sense of professional ethics. Plagiarism is rampant in the higher education bastions and most professors engage in endless jealous warfare with each other over grants, titles and publications (which their students produce for them).

Not even in Germany, but certainly in Russia, was such infiltration planned or even attempted on such a bold, Neronic scale. 

In the communications fields, they want absolute control so that they can intercept messages from every American governmental department, all foreign diplomatic traffic, all military traffic and the ability to listen to every telephone conversation in the United States!

"Tapping" telephones is something the Gestapo perfected and two of my best communications men have been assisting the CIA in setting up various programs. Colonel Behn has been involved in this, giving official access to his ITT units.

This is interesting to me and I am reading the material at home (I am not supposed to know what it going on!) and watching this country move from the remnants of a democracy to an embryonic fascist state. Better that than communist!

The Center of International Studies, paid for and controlled entirely by the CIA, was set up at MIT in 1951 and other such entities followed at major, and some minor, universities and colleges across the country. Most universities terminated their working arrangements with the CIA but not before an entire generation of willing academics sold their services to the CIA. An inspection of an existing list of academics who worked for the CIA reads like a Who's Who of the academic world.

By 1971, both the CIA and FBI were heavily engaged in domestic surveillance programs in the United States. These programs grew to be so pervasive and oppressive that in 1971, FBI director Hoover, alarmed at the degree and extent of illegal surveillance, balked at extending the cooperation of his agency any further and was instrumental in causing these enormous internal spy operations to collapse, at least insofar as CIA participation was concerned. Without Hoover's FBI to assist them, the CIA programs began to wither and die and even James Angleton's program to open, read and copy first class mail, a serious felony, was exposed and Angleton fired in 1976.

The domestic surveillance programs now in place are conducted by more than one agency and, in theory at least, are all-inclusive.

Every citizen of the United States is supposed to possess a Social Security card and the number on this card is the key used to unlock all the areas where sensitive personal information on all citizens is stored. The computer has simplified not only record keeping but also surveillance activities. Everything pertaining to a citizen is kept in computer files and the government, and some private agencies who work with the government, have unlimited and unrestricted access to these computer files.

Birth and death records, highly personal and often potentially embarrassing medical files, bank accounts, criminal files, credit card records that indicate travel and purchases, tax records, ownership of cars, planes, boats and real estate, credit bureau reports, Social Security and other official agency material and dozens of other records that are the sum and total of the population of the United States are all quickly available to interested officialdom through the offices of the computer systems.

It is no longer possible to fly commercially domestically without producing photo identification and all of this data is made available to various agencies via the computer.

Even the television set in the living room (or often more interestingly, the bedroom) can be used as a surveillance device. It is a well-known fact that the functions of the AM and FM units found in all television set can be reversed and the set can be used as a transmitter, even when it is turned off. 

None of this is done in a secret location in Washington but is accomplished at the subject's local cable head. It should be noted that this wonderfully Orwellian program only works if the victim is connected to a television cable system, one of the best reasons for using a satellite disk. Contrary to rumor, the set can only be used for audio transmission, not visual, so bedroom activities can only be heard, not seen.

Not even the fax machine is secure because the technology exists, and is used, to have copies of faxed documents sent directly into a federal office at the same time they are being printed out at the recipient's home or office.

While it is quite true that the American public are constantly subject to observations like ants in a glass ant farm, they should comfort themselves with the knowledge that this is for their own welfare and certainly not a manifestation of a burgeoning police state.

Friday, 25. May, 1951.

Much uproar in Germany these days. The Adenauer puppet government has been terribly insulted by (General Otto Ernst, ed. ) Remer, head of the SRP (Socialist Reichs Party, ed) who has been jailed for four months for calling Adenauer a tool of America. Of course the new government there is a backside kissing mass of toadies and sycophants most of whom had been in concentration camps for defeatism or treason or God knows what kinds of law breaking (many § 175ers), (German laws against homosexuality, ed.) or other night monsters. Hitler was right when he had me shoot as many of these cretins as I could before the end. It didn't prevent the survivors from crawling up to the Americans and licking their boots. Of course over there no one forgives Remer who stopped the putsch against Hitler and was directly responsible for shooting the sainted Stauffenberg.

Well, Remer shot him and I dumped him down the Klo (water closet, ed.) but the smell lingers on. No doubt they will be naming streets after the creep now that his pinheaded friends are in power. With the support of the Amis, note.

Thayer and two of his friends; one a geneticist from the Ukraine and another someone with an unpronounceable name from Hungary had a private meeting last week with several of us. Very interesting and sounded like the old days.

There is a plan being worked on by a sub-group, with Thayer involved, to do "active research" into breeding superior peoples! It sounds like the nonsense I used to encounter in the 30s and 40s. Thayer is having problems about his two mistresses that he brought back with him from Vienna. The wife has a father in high places and his domestic life is not pleasant.

Back to the Nordic breeding farms again. They managed to get their hands on the Mengele reports and are sending someone down to Paraguay to interview the good doctor about any suggestions he might have relative to such a program here. The plan is to set up a CIA-funded department of genetic research connected with Harvard and continue the M. experiments but without killing twins this time. The Gregor Mendel Society would have a grand time trying to improve all the mongrels that I have to work with on a daily basis!

Bunny is now very pregnant and very difficult to deal with. We have sudden hysterical outbursts, rampant self-pity with touches of paranoia and general manifestations of very bad humor. Physical relations are simply not possible during the pregnancy and I am sleeping in another room. She has these fits and then feels very badly and when she is apologizing, I am very supportive. It is hard to be supportive when she is shrieking that I am having an affair (which I am not...at least at the present time) and so on.

It is necessary for me to spend a good deal of time at home to allay her suspicions and I think she is beginning to come around.

It will be impossible for me to take her to Europe, that's for certain. I bribed her doctor to tell her that she may not travel and she went for it so I will have more freedom when I go back. This is coming soon! This July and early August. I have a pile of brochures on various concerts, etc. but I keep them away from Bunny who wants to go to Europe but knows she cannot. The baby is due in early September and it would be cutting it a bit fine to take her and then have to have her give birth on the boat.

My affair with Libby H. has cooled off but is not entirely over. Her fat husband is still furious with Philby but is friendly enough with me these days. Libby hasn't told him yet but what will she do when I dump her? She is getting to be a terrible bore what with her constant demands for very strenuous sex. She does talk a good bit and Bill tells her quite a lot that he shouldn't. I have told her not to keep pushing him about P. but she claims she will never forgive him because of some dreadful caricature Burgess did of her.

Women are both insecure and vain and in this combination is contained a terrible amount of vindictive malice. They should be disposable so that when we have finished with them, we could do what I did to Stauffenberg and flush them down the drain! 

Viktor wants to get together with me next week to discuss what he has found out about the disks. I want him to talk to Behn too so something can be arraigned. I will be going to New York so V. and I can go to Broad Street and meet with Behn at his office. 

Some "astonishing" developments, Viktor says, but not on the telephone.

It is known that the CIA taps the phones of all their employees and I cannot control what they do in the telephone offices. In the house or on a nearby telephone pole of course but I am careful what I say. 

Harvey's animosity towards Philby eventually exposed him as a Soviet spy. The CIA worked very closely with British Intelligence and was well informed about affairs in London. A highly confidential report that has emerged from the files of a former CIA agent, went into some detail about the BurgessMacLean defection and it now appears quite certain that they were tricked into fleeing by very high level British bureaucrats who were themselves either active homosexuals, Soviet sources or both. MacLean had suffered a serious mental breakdown after his period of service in Washington and Burgess was always a perpetual menace so the brace of them were told that their exposure was only a matter of days away and this resulted in the headlong flight to the safety of Moscow. Following this disaster, the British government went to great lengths to stonewall any American investigations, still fearful that many serving bureaucrats would be exposed for their various lapses into treason and buggery.

It was Muller's favorite observation, never repeated in the Anglophile confines of the CIA buildings, that the British were best defined as "polymorph and perverse" and in support of his thesis, he often regaled his close associates with terrible and cruel anecdotes that he gleaned from secret CIA and FBI reports he had copies of.

Thursday, 7. June, 1951.

I have worked out a tentative but relatively firm itinerary for my trip to Europe.

To fly to Germany on an Army special plane on 20 July, then to Munich for personal business, and then. Tannhäuser at the Prinz Regenten in Munich on the 28. Lorenz will sing T. and (Dietrich, ed.) Fischer-Dieskau, Wolfram. Box seats at DM 20 each.

There will be a descent on some of the better galleries on the Brienner Street followed by a drive to Bayreuth on 5 August (Sunday) for a performance of Meistersinger. This will be the exact same performance, cast and all, that performed for Hitler. The season will open with Beethoven's 9th but I will miss that.

Then we drive down to Salzburg (Hotel Stein) for the Mozart Festival. I am told the autobahn bridge on the way to the city is still out but otherwise a speedy journey is expected. On Friday, 10. August, Zauberflöte with (Erich, ed.) Kunz singing Papagano and, most especially, Furtwängler conducting!The last time I heard him was in Berlin under completely different circumstances! On Saturday, the 11, to the Stiftskirche St. Peter for the Mozart C-moll mass, Paumgartner conducting. 

A meeting at Bad Reichenhall with Willi who has a stack of papers for me concerning the Gehlen circus and then to Frankfurt and a plane back.

Twenty-five days or so and I think Bunny will survive my absence. The doctor tells me that early September is the most probable date for the birth so I will be back in plenty of time. I have traded several Russian scores to a collector for a Bach work, which I will give to Bunny when I get back.

It was suggested that I not go into the office this week because (Hans Bernd, ed. ) Gisevius will be there to see his dear friend Dulles! I mentioned this to Viktor who told me that G. is now working for Dulles, again (he was in Bern during the war), and is privy to a number of secrets, all of which he quickly passes to the Soviets! So like Gisevius to work for two people at the same time. He was originally Gestapo, was tossed out before I took over for making trouble for everyone, worked for the anti-Hitler people, went to Bern and worked for the OSS, got caught in Berlin and was examined by me and then went back to Switzerland and sent us reports on Dulles. At the same time, he also worked for the Russians and apparently still does. I have no intention of mentioning his name, especially since he knows me by sight. Let Dulles have his "trustworthy sources." I wonder how many NKVD men are now in the CIA? More than a few I would wager.

Also, Dulles' mistress had an affair with G. in Switzerland that turned out to be quite messy in the end.

Pohl was hanged today. He was quite a decent man and certainly not guilty of any war crimes. There has been quite a search by the CIC and others to find a large file P. had concerning American firms that worked with us right up until the last weeks of the war. A reward of a hundred thousand dollars has been offered but so far, no luck. If I found these, I would certainly strengthen my hand here vis a vis the louts who might consider making trouble for me. Ohlendorf also died and the press release indicated that he was convicted of executing 90,000 civilians in Russia. I suppose now we will read that they were all Jews, not Soviet partisans, and someone will add another zero to the total.

As I recall the figures on his action, 9,000 partisans and partisan supporters were exterminated in severe fighting but the victor writes the history in the end. I suppose an extra zero won't be noticed. I had a note from Willi (Krichbaum, ed.) a few months ago in which he made rather cynical mention of the "newly discovered" figures about the deportations from Budapest in 1944-1945 that he had a hand in both as my agent and as head of the GFP. It doesn't seem to be talked about that the Hungarian government begged us to ship off all their Jews. I know the actual figures from my head (I should check these out in my files before I go to Germany just for entertainment) and about thirty thousand were shipped to Auschwitz. Now, I understand this number has magically grown to three hundred thousand! By the time the creative writers have finished, we will have put fifty million to death by throwing them into enormous bonfires complete with the Berlin Symphony playing the "Good Friday" music (from Wagner's "Parsifal", ed.) in the background!

And there is Willi whose GFP killed more Jews than anyone, now working for the CIA as a major personage! Well, they have me too and so much for that.

I heard a former refugee, now a university professor, solemnly assuring a small group of people that three million German Jews were slaughtered by the Gestapo during the war. Since there were only about five hundred thousand Jews in all of Germany, this must have been quite a feat. I suppose the good doctor gets a nice lecture fee for all this creativity. I encountered this man, who weeps on schedule, and told him that as a Swiss historian, I understood that German Girl Scouts were responsible for the actual killing, all of which was done on the Alexander Platz (in Berlin, ed.) with pinking shears while Hitler stood by smiling and throwing flowers at the energetic girls. I probably shouldn't have said this because this stupid carp (he looks like one in profile) will incorporate this into his next lecture.

He made a passing reference to German atrocities perpetrated against the Belgians during the course of the 1914 war. Germans were accused of making the Belgians slaves, of torturing and beating them to death and most interestingly, in cutting off their hands! The carp ought to study more real history instead of copying the propaganda from that period. It never seems to fail that the guilty always blame their criminal actions on others. I suppose it makes them feel better about what they have done.

The King of Belgium, Leopold, ran the Congo as his own private company and extracted huge amounts of money from that sorry land. This was not money for the state but for himself and in amassing his enormous personal fortune, Leopold instituted and encouraged terrible actions in Africa. Millions of quite innocent blacks were beaten and tortured to death, their heads and hands hacked off by Belgian colonial police, women raped, children impaled and villages burnt to the ground. At least two millions died and although these monstrous atrocities became well-known thanks to outraged newspapermen and the clergy, it took years to do anything about it and from what I hear, ruthless exploitation is still in progress in the Congo but this time under the control of the Belgian government, not the Crown.

And at the same time, of course, the British and Americans were performing other similar acts throughout their colonial possessions.

Like Beria, Leopold liked very young girls but unlike Beria, Leopold did not torture them to death but made them Belgian nobility and gave them castles...paid for by the state. 

Gisevius (1904-1974) served all men badly, worked for all and was loyal to none. After the war, he was a witness at Nuremberg and then went to live in the United States and later, in Switzerland. Another shining light of the Resistance was a man named Karl Herbert Frahm. Frahm fled Germany in 1933 and went to live in Norway where he began to work for MI6. During the Spanish Civil War, Frahm went to Spain as a member of the Communist German Thaelmann Brigade. Later he worked, simultaneously, for the KGB and CIA. From 1949 through 1957, Frahm was a member of the Bundestag and in 1957, became mayor of West Berlin. He is much better known as Willy Brandt, later German Chancellor and head of the Social Democratic party of West Germany.  

The Pohl file, or a copy of it, ended up in the hands of SS General Globocnik and was hidden by him in Carinthia, Austria, at the end of the war. Pohl was head of the SS Economics Office and the SS had extensive financial connections with American business interests via Switzerland during the war. If Pohl had these files, he might have gained a pardon from McCloy, the American High Commissioner in Germany who pardoned many others on less important grounds. 

The GFP or Geheime Feld Polizei, was a group of Gestapo and SD men attached to the German High Command whose job it was to perform counterintelligence activities for that august body. The GFP, under the command of SS Colonel Krichbaum, also engaged in anti-partisan activities in Russia with devastating results. As the CIA's chief recruiter for the Gehlen Organization, Krichbaum was able to stuff that group with many of his former associates. 

The Congo atrocities are well documented but reference to them is rarely if ever found in standard historical works. 

During the First World War, British and American official propagandists merely replaced the Belgians with Germans and repeated the well-proven accusations against the former but crediting them to the Germans.

The stories of raped nuns, bayoneted babies and lopped off hands faded away after the war and led, in good part, to the establishment of what is known as the Revisionist School of British and American historical writings. 

However, sufficient time has not yet elapsed to permit any historian to attack the similar propaganda engendered by the Second World War. 

Sunday, 10. June, 1951.

Great consternation here about the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean who apparently fled to Moscow sometime after 26 May! I say "apparently" because both vanished from England on that date. Some suspect that they went off to the continent for a lover's holiday but others have stronger suspicions that they have gone over to the Soviets. Philby is in a state about this because the Burgess business points directly to him and Harvey is shouting to all and sundry that he had indeed told everyone so. Of course he seemed to have missed a good deal but then he is usually so drunk I am constantly amazed that he doesn't take one of the dozens of pistols he keeps in his office and start a shooting afternoon in the office!

He has discovered that someone is putting horns on him and is alternately ranting about what he will do to the traducer of his family honor and moaning about how his wife had betrayed him. I have kept a discreet distance from H. these days but have my spies watching him so that my name doesn't come into it. It was probably not a good idea to respond to Libby's importunings but then that is all over now and so what?

The Burgess matter is something else. Philby had told me about MacLean who was in a position to know everything about the U.S. actions in Korea and has obviously passed on his information to Moscow Center. Viktor and I discussed this and V. (who did not know about M & B) said that both of them were highly intelligent but very unstable people and that I, of all people, could not blame Russia for using their talents.

I said of course not and added that both of these men were alcoholics and obviously homosexual so I was not surprised. The latter feel put upon and made the butt of nasty jokes by normal men and in the end, take their revenge because they are rejected by society and mocked by them. The only way to prevent this is to make homosexuality acceptable by everyone and the stigma vanishes. Still, it is doubtful if this will happen at any time in the near future and certainly, the churches would be opposed to such goings on.

Sillitoe, head of British Intelligence, is due here tomorrow and will no doubt come up with all kinds of excuses and then decide how to prevent this from happening. It is my opinion that these two lost lambs were only part of a much larger ring of spies, all of whom are still in place. Hoover is to talk to S. but I have talked with the Colonel and pointed out that the U.S. simply cannot trust the British at all!!!! That does not go down well with the CIA who just love the British and tell them everything. East Coast snobbism in action, certainly.

I will be having lunch at the club with Philby on Wednesday or Thursday and we can discuss this then. He has proven to be of some considerable value to me and I don't want him exposed at this point. Harvey is still going on about him and it would not be wise for me to interfere. There is no point gained in getting Harvey to become annoyed with me, especially considering the wife. We shall see.

Saturday, 16. June, 1951

From Hoover I learn that a considerable number of top communists are to be arrested within the week. Most are Russian Jews with a Negro or two thrown in for balance. These are the names, just for the record, and so we can check to see what we might have on them from my files:

Israel Amter
Marion Bachrach
Isidore Begun (Russian)
Alex Bittelman (Bittlemacher) (Russian)
George Charney (Russian)
Elizabeth Flynn 
Betty Gannett (Yawschewski) (Polish)
Simon Gerson (Gershoeski)
Viktor Jerome 
(Issac Roman) (Polish) 
Claudia Scholnick
Albert Lannon (Vetere)
Jakob Mindel (Russian)
Pettis Perry
Alexi Trachtenberg (Russian) 
Laslo Toth (Hungarian)
William Weinstone (Weinstein) (Russian)

Earlier this evening, dinner with Bunny and one of her college friends. The conversation turned to Dulles and much fun was had by all. The friend knows the Dulles wife and Bunny has met Dulles at a social function and finds both of them appallingly stupid. After the friend, Marion, left about eight, Bunny and I had a drink and I told her a great deal about Dulles. 

Dulles has a mistress, Mary Bancroft. She is about fifty now (Bancroft was born in 1903, ed.) and they have had an ongoing affair for ten years. Bancroft was married to a very stupid Swiss and as an American fluent in German; she was pressured into joining the O.S.S through her social friends. She had lived in Switzerland since 1934-35 and was slightly crazy. Her psychiatrist was (Carl, ed.) Jung who was very much to the left, politically, and hated Germans. Bancroft was recruited as an agent by a man named (Donald, ed.) Mayer who acted as a recruiter and head pimp for Dulles. He introduced Bancroft to Dulles in late 1942 and they began an affair. At that time, the great man was living alone on the Herrengasse in Bern and her husband was often gone on business. 

The interesting part of all this is that the woman told absolutely everything to Jung. When we found out about this liaison, we had a former White Russian pose as a Soviet agent and approach Jung. The latter was very responsive and so everything Dulles told Bancroft went to Jung and from Jung to me! Marvelous how indiscreet people are when screwing. Eventually, we knew everything that the O.S.S was doing; all of their contacts and all of their activities. We were reading their reports to Washington long before Washington got them. Whenever a drop of O.S.S agents into German territory was set up, we knew about it well in advance and bagged every single one of them. Some we turned and did a playback so that in the end, Dulles was totally confused. We turned Kolbe, whom Dulles now says was his greatest agent and God knows how many others fell into our net.

When the wife finally came to Switzerland, Dulles immediately told her about Bancroft and the three had quite a ménage à trois going. My impression of Dulles as a very stupid and self-important man has never changed. His reports to Washington were so filled with gross errors that we never bothered to shut him up. He did manage to supply us with some interesting material on the 20th July business. Someone told Dulles that Kronthal was a homosexual and Dulles had no idea at all what that constituted! Perhaps they put on a tableaux for him. One of our spies told me that Dulles left his shoes on during sex. There is a man who is totally dominated by women. Both Bancroft and his wife, Daisy (Clover, ed.) tells him what to do and when to do it.

Who knows? Maybe both of them put on leather underwear while beating him with whips. I told some of these anecdotes to Viktor who was fascinated by them. He, in turn, told me about Beria but then I already know about his nasty activities with little girls and boys. Rapes them and afterwards kills them and buries them in his garden.

Good fertilizer in the end. Another "great Georgian," and a close worker with the other great one who reputedly likes men. (Stalin, ed.) When these people become famous or powerful, you would be amazed at how terrible they become. If Beria had stayed on his farm, he would probably confine himself to having sex with goats but now that he runs the terror apparatus in Russia, he can do as he pleases. This is a good argument for having laws and policemen but what are we to do when the guardians themselves are bestial and corrupt?

Dulles is not bestial; just stupid.

Later: Lunch at the club with Philby on Wednesday. I told him that I could do nothing about Harvey and to exercise some care. Libby has most certainly not cooled off and still likes to dance the mattress polka with me whenever she can. Tells me that the husband is too fat and too small to do her any good and as he is drunk most of the time, he is completely useless. He waddles around the house, drunk, naked and with a large gun strapped around his flabby midsection. The head doctors tell us that a man with a small penis loves to carry a big gun. Well, one can fire and the other can't! Still, she is good for the circulation now that she stops biting me, and I learn about the Fat One's activities. I told Hoover that I was having an affair with the wife (he absolutely hates Harvey!) and passed on some tid-bits to keep him happy. All is not well between husband and wife and perhaps they will leave for other mates. The wife thinks I will divorce my wife and marry her! Women love to delude themselves about men. An afternoon's thumping in Gretna Green does not equate marriage.

Monday, 18. June, 1951

I have dug out some material for Hoover on the people I listed recently. Three of them are in my files. I don't know what good this will do because the American courts keep dismissing the charges against these assholes but one tries.

I came across a most interesting file this morning and will try to abstract some of it for my records. It seems that in 1948 when the Jews were desperately attempting to get Truman to recognize their state in Palestine, a politician (Teddy Kolleck, later mayor of Jerusalem, ed.) offered to have the Zionist world intelligence organ work for the Americans and British in return for recognition! There was a very interesting set of lists in the file setting forth the extent of this world intelligence agency. They are located today in Russia, England, Sweden, Holland, France, Italy, of course the Near East and also in the United States! All the information they gather goes straight to Israel and, from what I find in the notes, also most of it straight to Moscow (except for material on Russia which does not go anywhere.) This offer was turned down immediately by both Truman, Military Intelligence and the CIA because all of them dislike the Jews and do not trust them at all. They have as an example the large, overwhelmingly large, number of Zionists engaged in espionage here during the war for Russia. They also have the terrible, bloody behavior of the Zionist groups in Palestine between 1944 and 1948, replete with assassinations, torture, bank robbery, train derailments, murder of unarmed Arab civilians, atrocities committed against their own people for lack of support and money, extortion, explosive outrages and so on. Truman, after he discovered the murder plot of the Stern Gang, said he would never use the Zionists under any circumstances. Now, we have to watch Angleton who is very friendly with them and has a Jewish mother. Dulles has the East Coast establishment contempt for Jews but others in the CIA do not. Many here are very much left and for that reason, were high in the O.S.S which was stuffed full of communists and communist sympathizers.

Today an overheard comment by Dulles about Wallenberg. I have learned that Dulles was a friend of Marcus Wallenberg, the uncle of the one we shot. Dulles gave Raoul (who had been educated in this country) a job with the OSS. We did not know this background but I most certainly did know that young Wallenberg worked for the OSS because we had penetrated their Swiss operation and knew everything they did.

I did not know until later that young Wallenberg also worked for the Russians but it was certainly prudent for me to have had him shot. Viktor now says that his people will be blamed for this. Of course they will. Dulles has set a campaign going towards this very end. It would never occur to him that his precious operation in Switzerland was as full of holes as their cheese and is using Wallenberg as disinformation against Stalin.

I am getting ready for my trip and now, Bunny wants to go too! I have told her repeatedly, as has her doctor, that it is simply not a good idea considering the advanced state of her pregnancy. Sophie was not pleasant when she was pregnant and neither is Bunny. One day they are at your throat and the next, at your feet. She is simply not going and that is the end of the matter. Weeping and breaking china gets nowhere with me but I try to be patient with her. I am certain she thinks I am taking a whole harem of large- breasted women with me but that is not true. Business and pleasure but not the pleasure of the mattress but of seeing old friends and going to some fine concerts. Dulles has been screwing Toscannini's daughter and someone thought that he was actually a cultured man but from his conversations, I doubt if he knows anything more than popular ballads. I once heard him singing, off key, a terrible song about blacks called "Nigger Doodle Dandy" which apparently was popular after the American Civil War. There are no blacks in the CIA and Dulles doesn't like women agents either.

He is involved with an elitist group called the Council for Foreign Relations that sit around in a fancy club in New York, get drunk and pretend to run the country. The convicted Hiss is still a member. There are no women permitted in that establishment either.

Thursday, 21. June 1951

An extremely funny, and very typical American, incident here. Hoover told me about a senior staff member in the CIA whom he discovered was involved with a weird cult in California and whom H. suspected had been embezzling CIA funds.

Of course high-level embezzlement is nothing strange to me. Congress has repeatedly given the CIA enormous sums of money for "secret operations," money that does not have to be accounted for. Naturally, these tweed-wearing Harvard and Yale men have no problem stuffing their pockets with this money but, of course, this is limited to the higher officials. The lower ones have to find other means of enriching themselves.

So, this California cult, was first conceived by a manic writer of what they call "science fiction." (Stories about mythical creatures from the planet Gorba in the Corn Flakes Galaxy). His name is (L. Ron. ed) Hubbard and the basic thesis of his strange cult is that anyone can go back in their life, even to the moment of birth, and discover all kinds of strange things that explain why they wet their beds, beat their wives, have sexual encounters with elderly sheep and so on. Hoover said the founder is a "complete maniac" with a penchant for young women and a history of practicing some kind of demonology in secret meetings of like-minded fools.

According to H., this Hubbard has tried to get rid of his perceived enemies by telling the FBI that they (the enemies) are "all Communists" who should be immediately arrested. Hoover gave me a file on this man, more or less as a joke, and I spent several hours really laughing. Even Bunny, who is now very moody, screamed with laughter, especially since she knows a society lady in Washington who paid money to get "clear" or free from her inhibitions. According to Bunny, this feeble-minded woman now believes that she was jumped on by a heavy dog while in utero and this explains her aversion to dogs. She also enthusiastically told Bunny, and her other friends, that the Dianetic program instantly cleared up her bad complexion and stopped her chronic farting! I can attest to both faults and I will not allow the woman in the house. She is guilty of visual pollution, her face looking like a dish of fresh mulberries covered with cream, and the stench in the house after her wind-passing beggars description! Windows have to be opened and I am sure the paint on the ceiling suffers accordingly.

Bunny assures me that her face is still bespotted, though covered with a thick paste of makeup, and she has apparently learned how to fart more quietly. I think she still burns holes in upholstered chairs but her friends now profess to admire her perfect complexion (which Bunny tells me looks like a mummer's mask) and pretend that the farts smell like 4711 Cologne water.

And this Hubbard fellow is making enormous amounts of money with his instant psychiatry and is said to spend it on drink and young women. I have never been to California and if this weird cult is any example of its citizens, I prefer not to.

The CIA man who has been looting to pay for these trips back in time to when he was swimming around in his father's testicles will be dealt with in house. After all, Angleton who takes with both hands and his feet, cannot have such adverse publicity.

Maybe they can pair him off with Wisner and send them to England. They think all Americans are completely mad and without taste so why not send Wisner and sticky- fingers over to London to confirm their worst fears? 

Saturday, 23. June, 1951

Bunny is getting enormous now and her good days are being overwhelmed by the bad ones. I spend more time in my office than I used to but the weekends are not bad because most of my dear friends are off sailing on their little boats or getting drunk in dank bars somewhere in the District.

While they booze, I visit with their wives and certainly with Bunny in no condition for sexual romps, I visit far more often. I have managed to finally get rid of the Harvey woman who has now taken up with an Italian from their Embassy. When this goes far enough, I will let her fat, cowboy husband find out. Nice pictures should cheer him up and perhaps take his mind off of Philby.

I have been reading over a very secret file, certainly not intended for my eyes, that deals with the CIA’s activities in China over the past few years. Of course they hate Mao, not because he is a communist but because he has stopped the drug trade in China.

The CIA has now discovered the real secret of the economic power and success of the former British Empire. The trade that made England rich did not come from saffron, tin and rubber but only from opium! Yes, the British raised opium in India and sold it throughout the rest of the Orient, excluding Japan. 

When the Chinese Emperor objected to 7,000 tons (!) of opium being shoved off every year on his country recognized its terrible effect upon the population, he tried to stop it by force. As they always do when faced with a weaker opponent, the British attacked China and forced them to continue to buy enormous amounts of their opium.

This terrible plague spread into Burma and Indo-China (where it was entirely controlled by the French government) but not into Japan. Japan was, and is, a small series of easily controlled islands and the British decided that country would be capable of fighting off their proverbial gunboats and left them fairly much alone.

England made billions of pounds annually through their cultivation and sale of opium throughout Asia and they fought to defend their terrible monopoly with everything they had. Shanghai was the drug capital of the world, great fortunes were made by such men as Stamford Raffles, the Jardin firm and the Sassoon family not to mention the billions of bribe money that flowed into the Bank of England during this time...from the eighteen fifties right up through the nineteen twenties.

As much as I dislike communists, I must say privately that Mao is certainly far better for the Chinese people than the British drug lords and their insidious poison.

Why, even Roosevelt’s maternal grandfather made a fortune dealing in illegal opium and used his boats to smuggle both huge amounts of drugs and illegal Chinese workers into the United States. What French writer stated that behind every great fortune lay a great crime? Balzac? I will have to look this up later. At any rate, it’s absolutely true.

The aristocratic Roosevelts who produced two presidents, stemmed from expelled, Shephardic Jews and made their money dealing in smuggled drugs!

In this report that I have been reading, I see that my dear friends here rescued a Chinese general, Ma Pufang, who had a lock on opium dealing in his part of China and who was an ally of Chiang (who was also a major drug dealer!). General Ma’s troops had been defeated by Mao and the CIA, who worked with him and often assisted him in the matter of not only protecting his drug business but actually became eager participants in it, flew him out of China with two million dollars of gold bars when Mao got too close for comfort.

This they did and they flew him and his precious cargo to Switzerland where the CIA opened a private bank account for him. Every cent of this money came from drug dealing but then the CIA not only knew this but were considered in every way to be Ma’s partners in crime.

Now, I have been reading over a very long and I must say, well-reasoned, paper advocating that the CIA actively engage in the opium (and of course heroin) trade. The reasoning is that we can take over from the British who are now totally defunct in this area and reap huge rewards. Not only will the Agency get vast sums of private and unreportable money to assist their world anarchy programs but, and this is even more disgusting, our sainted leaders can stuff their private purses with untold billions that will rival their current thefts from Congressional appropriations.

At this rate, Dulles, Wisner, Angleton and all the others, will end up with more money...and power of course.... than the American government (which they desperately wish to become.)

I personally find this to be repulsive, criminal behavior but I can do nothing about it at all other than to avoid touching it at all costs. I note from this report that the CIA is now actively running drugs into Cuba through their offices there cunningly disguised as a chemical company. It is useless to point out to these feeble-minded louts that many Americans go to Cuba and it will only be a matter of time before this wave spreads into the United States.

This is precisely the reason why I was, and still am, bitterly opposed to the use of the criminal germ warfare programs so eagerly advocated by the lunatic Wisner. It will all come back here to roost with the chickens as Robert says in his American way.

Monday, 25. June 1951

My dictating machine needs to be upgraded. These used to be small daily entries but are now growing out of all proportions. Pages have to be typed, corrected and filed and there is a space problem. The safe is getting filled up. Rumors have been reaching me via my friendly informants that Angleton is now being blackmailed and for what? He is a practicing homosexual as I have known for some time and one of his lovers has been demanding money from him! How wonderful! In Germany, I would have shortened both of them by a head but not in Washington these days. So, what will happen? The lover threatens to make public certain of Angleton’s nastier actions in the Agency (and some of them are really terrible, believe me) if he doesn’t pay up.

Not that James Jesus doesn’t have money. He has personally embezzled more Congressional secret funds than Dulles and the others put together. I suspect that the boyfriend will fall off a bridge one of these days.

Have entertained some of the senior personnel from the Vint Hill facility (the CIA’s Monitoring Station Number 1, also called the Vint Hill Farms Station. This was located near Müller’s home at Warrenton, Virginia. Another neighbor was Samuel Cummings, head of the CIA’s weapons procurement division. ed.)  

There is a plan to set up some kind of an experimental station here and I have been asked to allow them to use some of the more remote acreage for it. Very private and I understand that it deals with some kind of medical experimentation. Bunny objects to this but we have been assured that none of the CIA and Army personnel will enter by the front drive and will not intrude on the residential buildings.

I believe from what I have been told that certain “sensitive” experiments will be carried on there. The buildings will be some kind of caravan temporary types and will be taken away later. The idea is that privacy is vital. I have no problem but if any of the horses start to die of strange diseases, there will be serious trouble. 

Wednesday 27. June 1951

Notes on a conversation with (Walter Bedell ed.) Smith. Dulles has been working on him to establish a closer relationship with Israeli intelligence, the Shin Bet. D. claims that the Jews have a well developed intelligence network in Eastern Europe and that the CIA could benefit from this projected association. Angleton will act as the contact with the Israelis. As I pointed out to Smith, this association is fraught with real danger. As reasons, I gave him: Jews always in the past were loyal to Soviet Russia. They saw this country as supportive of their people. Stalin has used the Jews to a remarkable degree. . Most of the early Bolsheviks were Jewish, Lenin was half Jewish and the entire revolution was led by Jews. Stalin is a Georgian and does not like Jews but uses them the way Roosevelt did. I pointed out that much of this dual allegiance has now been transferred to the new state of Israel. There are many Jews in the new government there that are sympathetic to Moscow by background and that we ought to be extremely cautious in proceeding with this. If these internationalists, to use one of Stalin’s pet phrases, get too deeply connected with us here, God knows how many of our secrets will go not only to Tel Aviv but Moscow Central as well.

Dulles is not a competent intelligence man. He is a society lawyer with no real understanding of the intelligence field. He acts wise, is good humored and very well connected with the east coast society but outside of that, I personally would never have hired him. He pretends to be wise but is not. I do not trust pipe smokers. If they have no sensible answer to a question, they fiddle with their pipes and gain time for what passes for a wise answer.

Angleton is an intelligent...no, an intellectual man, but again not suited to the intelligence trade. He is very emotional, highly suspicious of everyone and to make things worse, a secret homosexual. Of course he thinks he is being secret about it but I certainly know because I make things like that my business. The Harvey woman also knows about this and has great contempt for him and his pretty young college students and fellow poets. If he were open about his perversions, it would not be as bad but as he is in cover, he becomes susceptible to blackmail. What if the Israelis, who are certainly very clever, ascertain Angleton’s socially unacceptable preferences? Will they supply him with handsome young Jewish men and thereby gain more than support from him?

I was once walking in a corridor with Angleton when some personage passed us and smiled and said some social pleasantry to him. Afterwards, he looked very serious and said to me, ’What did he mean by that do you think? I know he hates me so why was he friendly? They may be out to replace me!’ He is so filled with his own cleverness and so guilty about his sexual preferences, that like Dulles (who is entirely heterosexual) I would not hire him either.

Tuesday, 10. July, 1951
Packing for Europe. Bunny is doing well enough, very unhappy that she is not going with me but resigned to remaining here in the last stages of her pregnancy. The CIA has installed its special communications units on the very edge of the property. Everything is fenced as I am told. Too much trouble to go out and look at things but perhaps I will before I go.

The weather could be better. I hate these humid summers with rain, thunderstorms and then oppressive heat. I told Bunny she should go to Colorado for a few weeks but she wants to stay close to home. This is her first child and she is very nervous.

I suppose she says that to make me feel guilty about my trip but I am not though I do put a good face on it by being properly solicitous with her. Have all the tickets now and am looking forward to seeing Munich again!

Friday, 12. July, 1951

Such a damned outrage! This is very hard to put down but I really ought to just for reference and also for relieving me of the pressure. I went out for a ride this morning, in spite of the weather. I thought it would be my last before I went on the trip and I do enjoy the rides now. I have gotten used to the horse and he to me. So early this morning, I went out riding and worked my way across the property to the area where the CIA unit was installed.

I smelt it before I got to it and so did the horse. A very unhappy horse and later, a very unhappy Heini! The stench was terrible as I approached the fenced-in trailers with their antenna stuck up on top of two of the trailers. There was a path leading down the hillside but the horse balked so I had to dismount and lead him down the path. I wanted to see what smelt so bad and I found out very quickly. In a small clearing were two human bodies, very much decayed and bloated. There were two men wearing some kind of blue shirts and pants and badly infested with maggots. They appeared to be black men but given the advanced state of corruption, it was not a certainty.

I remounted at the top of the path and rode over to the fenced area but no one was in sight. By this time, I was becoming very angry and went back home at a good canter and later a gallop. Phone calls to the CIA people. There are dead human bodies on my land! What is going on there? Silly, placating answers. Not good enough for me. Get rid of these things or I will call the local police and mortician at once! No, no, sir, do not do that! was the response. They would send someone right out to clean it up. I was please not to call anyone. It was (the usual shit) a matter of national security! National security indeed! Two dead blacks and how did they get there?

I want Bunny to know nothing about this. She came in when I was shouting at the CIA fool so I had to pretend it was something else. Oh yes, they came almost at once in a station wagon and drove in at the gate and then out to the charnel house. Another car came with two smooth-faced young men who wanted to talk to me privately. Into the library and later Bunny said she could hear me shouting one floor up through three closed doors! Angry is not the word to use, believe me.

What have these swine done now? It seems that the CIA is interested in mind control and were “practicing” on “willing” subjects. They wanted to see if some new radio system would have any effect on humans so they obtained several “volunteers” from a Virginia jail and experimented on them. They used radio microwaves in varying degrees of intensity on these poor fellows and literally roasted them alive! The bodies were tossed down the hill and it had been planned to bury them quietly on my farm!

There was a change of personnel and someone forgot the dead blacks!

When I asked these two sleek weasels about this, the reply was so awful I could not believe it! It seems that the CIA has no problem roasting people alive as long as they are convicted black criminals! Isn’t that a wonderful attitude? One of the CIA people said, in such an offhanded way as to infuriate me that no one cared about blacks because they were scarcely human!

It took an enormous amount of self-control on my part to keep me from picking up a poker from the fireplace and doing great damage to these two worms. I threw both of them out and ordered them to not only remove the bodies but their experimental station as well. I told them that if I heard one more word of this insane behavior I would personally take it to the President first and the newspapers second. 

White faces and many apologies. They crawled out and I had a very stiff drink to calm down again. The station wagon left, the driver had a white mask over his face and the other one threw up on the driveway as the car bumped along!

Fortunately, Bunny saw, smelt or heard nothing and I had to go up and lie terribly to her. I am totally frustrated by this because my first instinct, besides shoving my shoe up their assholes, was to put them under arrest and turn them over to the local police for obvious murder. I can’t do that in my position but I would go to Harry with this if I ever hear about it again.

Mind control indeed!

Later: I spoke very sharply with (Walter Bedell, ed.) Smith when I calmed down and he was also furious. Told me that there are elements in the organization that are “completely lunatic” and he will speak with “someone” about this. I told him that if I ever heard of such psychotic nonsense again, the President would be the next on my list of callers and Smith said not to worry about this reoccurrence. No doubt the lunatics will go somewhere else. If I ever catch these evil swine on the property again, I will turn Arno loose on them and he can certainly earn his pay. 

Apparently, they (the CIA, ed.) are involved in “mind control” work. This consists of drugging people, using electric shock on others, God knows what else! You should see some of the thoroughly lunatic types that scuttle up and down the halls, mumbling to themselves while clutching files to their breasts like a mama monkey with a dead baby. As expected, Wisner is involved in this madness. And him with a well-endowed (from the photos) black lover! When they are not burning people to death or looting the safes of cash, they are encouraging all kinds of strange madness.

I have no time for my journal now and am getting ready to leave here on the 19th for a working vacation. Will get in touch with Willi (Krichbaum. A former SS colonel who was Müller’s deputy in the Gestapo and later a senior employee of Colonel Critchfield’s CIA-controlled Gehlen organization in Munich, ed.) and then a musical interlude. I cannot see the family because they are still watched but will drop a card to Sophie.

There will be no mention of the new wife or the forthcoming (I hope) child. No point of putting honey on your ass and squatting on an anthill, is there?
The CIA’s otherworldly “mind control” experiments have received a great deal of publicity in recent years. The MK-ULTRA programs, the experimentations of the murderous poisoner Dr. Gottleib and the eager assistance of the Canadian Psychiatrist Dr. Ewen Cameron have all been dissected in considerable detail. LSD was fed to unsuspecting fellow CIA employees, one of whom jumped, fell or was pushed out of a hotel to his death, many went completely mad and to this day, no one outside of the CIA knows exactly what the human damage was.
That none of these manic experiments were ever even remotely successful goes entirely without saying. The failure of these “mind control” programs joins the failure of so many of the ill-reasoned CIA programs.
The heavy toll on human lives and the ongoing disruptions of the human community that followed in the wake of such brilliant operations as the Hungarian revolt of 1956, the Tibetan clandestine warfare, the horrific Operation Phoenix and a seemingly endless parade of other essays into madness is notable only in the fact of its banality.
A catalog of CIA failures would fill a good-sized library shelf and a great deal has already been published. What has not been published is even more important to understand.
On July 20, 1951, Heinrich Müller flew to Europe on official business, mixed liberally with pleasure. The official purpose of the visit was to establish a connection with the Gehlen Organization and the unofficial purpose was to visit with members of his family and attend various cultural functions.
Müller returned to the United States on August 23. His wife gave birth to a son on August 27 and on Thursday, August 31, 1951, Müller went to New York City in the company of a senior CIA official. 

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