> You are right, but the cold war did extend into the mid 
> eighties, and I
> suspect what happened is initially the cold war was 
> *relatively*
> friendly, enough to still allow growth of the conomy,

Can't comment usefully on effects on economy, but the cold 
war was bitterly serious from day one, or before.

Gaggle  "The Gehlen memoirs" for a picture of the secret war 
continued from the very very very end of WW2 as if things 
had never ceased. Given that during WW2 Gehlen was head of 
"Foreign Armies East" whose job it was to 'spy' on the 
Russians for Hitler, and that with a pause of only months 
(while he and his top people hid in alpine woorlands while 
things settled down and he was then taken to the US and then 
returned to Germany), he continued to do the identical job 
for 11 years after the war as head of a "private research 
organisation" paid for by the US government and then "his 
organisation" was transformed into the 
Bundesnachrichtendienst  aka West German Federal 
Intelligence Service (on 1st April 1956) and he continued in 
Fereral employ until retiremnt in April 1968.

ie the cold war was war with fury but hidden weapons from 
day one.
Book has a photo of an East German "cyanide gun" used to 
kill specific targets surrepitiously.

FWIW Gehlen says, and you may find like I that his claims 
all have a reasonable ring of plausibility, that in WW2 his 
organisation predicted EVERY Russian attack in advance 
throughout the war, accurate to position and magnitude but 
sometimes unable to be specific to better than +/- a few 
days. What Hitler DID with his information can be read from 
the history books.

Also, FWIW he claims that he predicted the exact date of the 
start of the Israeli 6 day war and told a West German 
delegation about a week in advance - at that stage the 
Israeli cabinet had not made their decision whether to go 
ahead or on what date.

The Gehlen Memoirs
Reinhard Gehlen
Translated by David Irving (hmmmm)
Collins
St James Place, London 1972
ISBN 0 00 211203 0



        Russell


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