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Hochlande Bote (Bavaria, 8.5.48)
Chicago Herald Tribune
New York Herald Tribune
Rude Pravo
New York Times
Brantford Expositor
Tiger’s Tales
Stars and Stripes
Daily Telegraph
Sunday Express
Antony Terry: Operation Odessa (memo to Sunday Times Insight Team, 20.2.68)
Corresondence, Interviews and Diaries
Correspondence with the Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt, and Landeszentralbank in Bayern (Munich, 1979–82)
Correspondence with Federal Reserve Bank, New York, 11.4.77 and 15.12.78
Correspondence from Guenther Reinhardt to Tom Agoston 1949
D. A. Spencer: 1945 Diary, vol. 3, Germany: Post-Armistice (T-Force manuscript – Air Photographs Research Committee)
Correspondence, interviews, telephone interviews with the following individuals:
Paul O. Bruehl telephone
General Lucius D. Clay correspondence
Murray van Waggoner telephone/correspondence
Lt Hugh G. Waite correspondence
Edward E. Bird telephone/correspondence
Elmer G. Pralle telephone/correspondence
Gordon Gray telephone
Col. Clifton H.Young telephone/correspondence
Alice Peccarelli telephone/correspondence
Lt-Col. Leonard H. Smith telephone/correspondence
Frank C. Gammache telephone/correspondence
Lt-Col. Lester J. Zucker correspondence
Bob Shaw telephone
Tom Agoston telephone/correspondence
Frank C. Gabell correspondence
Col. L. Stautner correspondence
Sieglinde Odorfer correspondence
William C. Wilson telephone/correspondence
Buck Wardle telephone/correspondence
Charles I. Bradley telephone/correspondence
Ward Atherton telephone
John L. Ketcham telephone/correspondence
Leo de Gar Kulka t apes/telephone/correspondence
Melvin W. Nitz interview
Charles W. Snedeker telephone/correspondence
Ivar Buxell tapes/telephone/correspondence
Captain Walter R. Dee telephone/correspondence
Brigadier M. H. F. Waring telephone
Colonel William Eckles elephone/correspondence
Sergeant Albert Singleton telephone/correspondence
Captain G. Garwood telephone/correspondence
Major William Geiler correspondence
Alfred Geiffert 111 correspondence
Louis Graziano correspondence
Colonel Franz Pfeiffer interview
Hubert von Blücher interview
Major R. M. Allgeier correspondence
Simon Wiesenthal telephone
Ian K.T. Sayer: Documents and other material relating to the Great Reichsbank Robbery and its sequel
FOOTNOTES
7. Finding’s Keeping
1 At that time Spiro Agnew – later Vice-President of the United States of America under President Nixon – was a captain in the same battalion in Mittenwald.
2 This kind of thing was pretty normal in Germany shortly after the end of the war. In Mittenwald Major L. Stautner, a Wehrmacht officer and a holder of the Knight’s Cross (like Colonel Pfeiffer), had his prized decoration stolen by the invading Americans. ‘When the Americans marched into Mittenwald they plundered my house there,’ he wrote to the authors, ‘and even carried off the children’s toys back to America. At that time – the beginning of May 1945 – I was on the southern front. In all probability I should have been no worse off if the Russians had come there. I myself took part in both world wars, on every front there was, but I have never taken, or allowed my soldiers to take, the very smallest trifle. I have to tell you that.’
3 Authors’ italics.
11. A Hole in the Bucket
1 Former Garmisch MG Legal Officer Captain Edward Bird, who as a one-time member of the US Army Special Services had been responsible for skiing facilities for military personnel in Garmisch, became a very good friend of Clausing. ‘I knew him very well,’ he recalled. ‘I didn’t distrust him. He was a very intelligent man and a very likeable fellow. I put him on his feet. He worked for me as ski instructor. He was a hell of a good skier and if it had not been for the war he would have been Olympic material. Believe me, he was that good.’
13. The Reckoning
1 Colonel Brey, a much respected career soldier, knew little about financial matters. This side of the FED was run by his able Deputy Chief (and eventual successor), Frank C. Gabell, the man in charge of the secret distribution of new German currency to West German banks prior to the historic currency reform of June 1948. ‘Brey was the “picture” at the FED,’ wrote Gabell, ‘and I was the “works”.’
15. The White Horse Inn
1 One man even went to the extent of making fake uranium cubes out of lead studded with splinters of flint. There was a similar case of mineral counterfeiting in Garmisch a few years later, when an American sergeant and a German accomplice attempted to pass off gold-painted iron bars as bullion from the Reichsbank gold reserves.
18. The Reinhardt Memorandum
1 Gray was later Secretary of the Army under President Truman and Director of the Office of Defence Mobilisation under President Eisenhower. In 1955, as Chairman of the 5421 Committee, he became one of the most powerfully placed men in the US. This Committee (also known as the Special Group) consisted of Gray, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defence and the Director of the CIA, and was the most secret Committee of the United States government, dealing with issues too sensitive even to be discussed by the National Security Council. Its main function was to protect the President and no covert action could be taken without its approval.