ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses primarily on the two men who led the successful HAMMER mission into Berlin. In order to release Henschke from his work for the German Communist Party exiled in England, Werner first advised her brother Jurgen that the GRU had demanded that he recommend to Joseph Gould that the OSS hire Henschke to serve as the liaison to the families of the men recruited for the missions. The Ardennes Forest attack by the German Army resulted "in the acute awareness that Allied forces were going into Germany blind and in a genuine appreciation of the intelligence that had been extracted from the both before and after the invasion. The proposed use of the German exiles for the TOOL missions generated controversy within OSS London. In 1947, HAMMER mission agents Paul Lindner and Anton Ruh and their families were finally permitted to return to the Soviet zone in a divided Berlin.
