Published: Jan 5, 2022 00:05 GMT In a recent book, Allen Dulles, who soon became director of the CIA, is blamed for this failure. A senior American intelligence chief inadvertently aided a Nazi disinformation operation during World War II by continuing to use a key code what had been engaged by the Germans, according to classified records analyzed in a recent book. ‘Covert Legions: US Army Intelligence in Germany 1944-1949’, by historian and author Thomas Boghardt, claims that the mistakes of an American spy could have helped the Nazis to spread false information about an alleged alpine redoubt of Adolf...