Opinion: Allied Intelligence Failure Still to be Addressed

Mr. Editor,

Since I first started subscribing to Truth Today a few years ago, I have been delighted to see that your paper is not afraid to tackle the controversial issues of the day. I was therefore emboldened to write you about an important issue regarding the state of the Allied intelligence during the late world war.

In 1945 Allied intelligence toiled overtime to find out the workings of the overextended Nazi war machine. Early that year, after what has since been called the Battle of the Bulge, it started to look as if German resources were being rerouted from the defence of the Western front: key units would disappear from the line, others would be weaker than anticipated, reconnaissance photos would find airplanes going missing etc. Even industrial plants were being dismantled and moved elsewhere.

Rather than accepting the obvious - that this was due to the massive losses the Germans were taking in the East and the successful Western air campaign - Allied intelligence cooked up the curious theory that there was a-building a German "National Redoubt", a stronghold in which the Nazi leadership, with fanatical SS troops, would be making their bloody last stand. Now, of course, we know that there was no such thing: the estimates given to General Eisenhower and the Allied High Command seem to have been half guesses and misunderstandings and, indeed, half pure fantasy.

As a war correspondent in the ETO, I had the possibility to discuss the issue with the late General Patton, the man at the spearhead of the Allied advance into Germany. Most everyone knows that Patton would have been highly willing to make a beeline for Berlin and to take the fight to the heart of the Nazi Reich. But not many people have been personally able to experience how furious the late General was for the fact that he was ordered to lead his Third Army into Southern Germany in pursuit of a chimera among the Alpine passes while Soviet armies were fighting to conquer the Nazi capital.

General Patton could wax very poignant on this issue, and without his untimely death, he would have surely made a big stink of it back home. There was no impregnable Nazi "Festung" in the Alps, nor were Patton's troops able to discover German "wonder weapons" in Austria or the Czech industrial areas. More to the point, such fantastical things have not been found anywhere on this Earth.

No official investigation into the matter has been made. As the tensions between the US and the USSR grow daily, I think the people in the US would be more than entitled to know exactly why Eastern Germany was abandoned by the Western Allies, only to be gobbled up Joseph Stalin.

I remain, &.

James Wangernumb, Journalist
Currently of Paris, France.

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A bit long post, sorry, but I just could not pack Wangernumb's message into a shorter form without losing key points and still keeping the "opinion" style. Questions raised about US intelligence: maybe only the location of the fortress was wrong? Ties in with the German weapon developments in the South as well as the conspiracy theories into Patton's death. Is Wangernumb writing in earnest, or is this just a part of a US government disinfo campaign? You decide. ;-)