Hitler’s Secret Agent Helped Build the CIA.
Christopher Hitchens said the quiet part out loud.

After World War II, Reinhard Gehlen—Hitler’s top intelligence chief—was hired by the CIA.

Hitchens called it one of the darkest turning points in U.S. history:

“Something very bad entered the American system… and we’ve never confronted it.”

~T edit: Operation Mockingbird. [cia] didn't "hire" him....[they] brought him in specifically.