In 1988 Ian Sayer and Douglas Hotting, who were compiling a history of the American Counter-intelligence Corps entitled America’s Secret Army: The Untold Story of the Counter-intelligence Corps, were asked by a US government investigative agency to verify a file consisting of documents signed by CIC agents in Berlin towards the end of 1948 in connection with the employment of Heinrich Muller as a CIC advisor. The file indicated that Soviet agents had concluded that Muller had not been killed in 1945 and that he was possibly being used by Western Intelligence agencies. Sayer and Botting rejected the material as a forgery ‘counterfeited by a skilful but rather confused person’. This view was corroborated by Colonel E. Browning, who was CIC Operations Chief in Frankfurt at the time the documents were supposed to have been produced. Browning indicated that the whole idea of something as sensitive as the employment of Muller as a CIC advisor was ludicrous. ‘Regretfully,’ wrote the two authors, ‘we have to conclude that the fate of the chief of the Gestapo in the Third Reich remains shrouded in mystery and speculation, as it has always been, and probably always will be.’
Attempts by a leading British newspaper and an American news magazine to investigate the story in detail have so far come to nothing.
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