August 12, 2026

This German-born former SS officer travelled to Rome in 1948 to help build an anti-Soviet spy network in Romania. By 1963 he had relocated to Boston, where he worked as an executive at the Cabot Corporation. Which Nazi-turned-CIA-linked figure is this?

A Werner Heisenberg
B Anastasia Volochkova
C J. Robert Oppenheimer
D Otto von Bolschwing

Otto von Bolschwing was a former SS officer who worked for US intelligence in the postwar years. He was based in Rome in the late 1940s and later moved to Boston, working as a Cabot Corporation executive until his Nazi past caught up with him in the 1980s.

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