Fritz Kolbe

Role

OSS Intelligence Asset

Bio Notes

OSS intelligence asset. The OSS best intelligence source on Nazi Germany. Made his first attempt to contact the Allies through Catholic Church intermediaries. His handler Kocherthaler was a German-born Jew who converted to Christianity. Key advisor was Prelate Georg Schreiber, head of a Benedictine monastery, who declared Kolbe free of any oath to Hitler. Pattern: religious intermediaries as primary channel for intelligence operations.