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Volume II Part V Critchfield Report Part VI Year of Decisions.

Volume I Part I Firsthand Accounts Part II Stunde Null (Zero Hour, June 1945) Part III Vandenberg Report Part IV Bossard Report The report gives the history of the relationship between the CIA and the BND, beginning with General Gehlen, a German officer who started an organization during the war to preserve German intelligence records on the Soviet Union after Germany's defeat. The United States Army worked with Gehlen's organization after the end of the war, in a project called "Operation Rusty". The Vandenberg report was an evaluation by the CIA in 1947 of the merits of the CIA taking over this operation, which rejected the idea. The Bossard report was a later CIA follow up which was more favorable to the idea. In 1948 James Critchfield, head of the Munich Operations Based prepared the "Critchfield Report" which recommended the CIA take over Gehlen's operation , and this policy was put into effect in 1949. "Year of Decisions" the final section of the report consists of memos and reports between the CIA and the BND during 1949 as the policy was being carried out.