Future CIA Chief Dulles May Have Inspired Nazis to Spread Myth of Secret Fortress, Historian Claims

Allen Dulles, the US diplomat, spymaster and 1950s CIA director, conducted secret negotiations with Waffen-SS general Karl Wolf in the spring of 1945 aimed at reaching a separate peace between Nazi Germany and the Western allies. Soviet intelligence found out about the talks, and the incident led to a cooling of trust between America and the USSR.