Sicherheitsdienst
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Eventually to contain all Nazi foreign human-source intelligence and counterintelligence activities of Nazi Germany, the Sicherheitsdienst, best known as the SD, was created as a Nazi Party, not state, organization in 1939. It was originally divided into internal and domestic intelligence services, headed, respectively, by Otto Ohlendorf and Walter Schellenberg. When the overall RSHA security organizations were formed in 1942, became, respectively, Amt (office) III and Amt VI.
Venlo Incident
One of the SD's greatest counterespionage successes was the Venlo Incident, in which it lured operatives of the British Secret Intelligence Service into being captured at the border of a neutral country.[1]
Reports from the Reich
Einsatzgruppe
- ↑ Wil Deac (January 1997), Germany's Venlo sting completely compromised an already shaky British Intelligence network in Western Europe., HistoryNet