From Nazi Germany to the OSS to the CIA (Part 1)
Podcast |
SpyCast
Publisher |
SpyCast
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Education
History
News
Publication Date |
Dec 21, 2012
Episode Duration |
00:23:39
Today Peter begins a conversation with the remarkable Peter Sichel, OSS veteran, senior CIA official of the 1950s, and onetime head of Blue Nun wines. After fleeing Nazi Germany with his family in the 1930s and eventually finding himself in the United States, Sichel joined the OSS and in 1944 he went back to Europe where he recruited German prisoners of war to spy for the US 7th Army. Hear him talk about his operations in Europe and his friendship with future Director of the CIA, Richard Helms.

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