Paul Dickopf
 Paul Dickopf  (policeman) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | June 9, 1910 Müschenbach, German Empire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | September 19, 1973 (Age 63) Bonn, West Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | German | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | NSDAP | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paul (Paulinus) Dickopf was a member of the NSDAP and SS in the Security Service (SD) and a secret agent in Switzerland, who became a member of the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). Between 1965 and 1971, he was the 4th president of the BKA and a paid "unilateral agent" of the CIA.
Infiltration of the BKA by former Nazi officials
After his death it was revealed that Dickopf had made the Federal Criminal Police a safe haven for former Nazi and SS officials, a large number of them war criminals. Under his leadership some concepts of National Socialism were still upheld and practised, for example in the way gypsies were treated.[1][2]
Secret Cooperation with the CIA
According to documents in the National Archives in Washington, which were released in 2007, the CIA made payments to Dickopf from 1965 to 1971, while he was president of the BKA. He is categorized in the files as a "unilateral agent".[3] One note about Dickopf by the then head of the CIA says: '"Our relationship with Mr Dickopf is mainly of a secret nature, the official contacts being used as a cover up for meetings".[4] Dickopf passed on to the CIA information on leading officials as well as on internal affairs of the BKA and other authorities. It is not known what instructions he took. His CIA handler was Thomas Polgar.[5]
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160130103445/https://www.bka.de/nn_196810/sid_B8B7994C8FEBD496DDC5A9E95C8C42EE/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Publikationen/Publikationsreihen/01PolizeiUndForschung/Sonderband2011SchattenDerVergangenheit.html?__nnn=true
- ↑ http://www.dieter-schenk.info/Anhang/Publikationen/BKA/braunesbka.jpg Template:Bare URL image
- ↑ Memorandum v. 30 August 1968; released document from CIA files (Digitalisat 389 KB) (retrieved 13 September 2013); compare the copious CIA files (Liste) on foia.cia.gov.
- ↑ http://www.n-tv.de/politik/BKA-Chef-war-CIA-Agent-article3613461.html
- ↑ http://www.hagalil.com/antisemitismus/deutschland/bka.htm
