public enemy number one of the young State of Israel, the Nazi Adolf Eichmann had been captured since 1949. That year, revealed in its edition of Saturday, January 15 the German weekly Der Spiegel, which had access to the Federal Archives in Berlin, a squad of Israeli intelligence would have been sent to Salzburg, Austria, to remove the notorious SS officer, principal performer of the "final solution" against the Jewish people during World War II and finally appeared in Argentina in 1960, before being tried and executed in 1962. Thirteen years before this conviction, says Spiegel, an informant for Israel, Adolf Josef Urban, a former collaborator of Adolf Eichmann, had got wind of a visit by Eichmann to his wife in western Austria, Bad Aussee, in 80 km east of Salzburg. The Jewish state's consulate in Vienna alerted to it immediately pays 50 000 shillings to his agent infiltrated within the security services Austrian order to take the lead in manhunt, activating her contacts in Salzburg. A plane was chartered on the same airport in the city of Mozart, and had to wait the necessary time on the tarmac as the commando and its target gagged appear for a flash off to Israel. Alas, Urban, by his former record of service, was not considered totally reliable. And indeed, the operation failed. Eichmann, who was at that time in northern Germany and whose head was starting price of one million shillings by Israel never visited Austria. Though he warned in time that a trap had been laid against him in Austria? Adolf Josef Urban said he spread the message to his former boss, or the Nazi officer, who knew he was hunted by the Israelis, he decided on his own not to take such a risk? Urban had nevertheless provided valuable information to the general Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and Western intelligence agencies. But it is also the one who organized the escape of its former chief after 1945. All these revelations come from the federal archives of the ephemeral "Gehlen organization", the precursor of future German secret service, the BND, in the immediate postwar period. She was baptized and named after its leader, Major-General Reinhard Gehlen. However, Gehlen was a former Nazi in charge of intelligence operations on the eastern front, directly involved in the massacres of Jews in Eastern Europe after 1941. Yet it was placed at the head of the secret services in Renaissance Germany "denazified" Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, without the United States to find fault. Gehlen headed the BND until 1968, before dying in 1979. Praised for their work on the east by the OSS U.S., replaced in 1947 by the CIA, Gehlen had deliberately withheld information on Eichmann fled to Aregtine in 1950, as shown by the records of the "Gehlen Org," incorporated the BND in 1956. By 1952, it would have been aware of the leak of Eichmann and omitted mention of the CIA until 1958. The Americans, in turn, Overlooked then inform the Israelis. The Nazi war criminal who was hiding under the alias of Ricardo Klement, was finally kidnapped two years later in a suburb of Buenos Aires, secretly transferred to Israel where he was tried for crimes against humanity and hanged May 31, 1962 in Jerusalem.
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