Based on recommendations from Chip Bohlen , he returned to government service in September 1948 as deputy to Frank Wisner , head of the Office of Policy Coordination ( OPC ) , a CIA-funded unit within the State Department that was responsible for psychological warfare , propaganda , and surreptitious funding designed to destabilize the Soviet Union and its allies . He was widely recognized for his work ethic , rising in the early morning hours to speak to Eastern European contacts , and for an extraordinary ability to process multiple streams of information , digesting complex documents while conducting telephone negotiations . He continued to ingratiate himself with superiors , helping find a cook for Wisner and laying out funds to bring two servants to the U.S. for George F. Kennan . He was a regular attendee at Georgetown dinners . He counted among his enemies Kermit Roosevelt , Jr. , a prominent CIA operative in the Middle East , who described Offie years later as " an oily little jerk who talked oddly and did odd things . " Offie 's value both in occupied Europe and in the CIA related in part to his ability to establish friendly relations with the wives of prominent officials . His European connections helped him later in aiding the movement of anticommunists in and out of Eastern Europe . He ran two key programs : Operation Paperclip , which recruited German scientists for work in the United States , and Operation Bloodstone , which targeted the Soviet Union by making intelligence analysts or spies of former Nazis and Nazi collaborators . He " helped to establish the paradigm for harnessing the services of Nazis , fascists , and collaborators , and a variety of emigre groups and desperate volunteers from the DP camps in America 's fight against the specter of world communism . " From Germany he recruited former diplomats and military officers to help spy on and support American propaganda efforts against the Soviets , a program codenamed Operation Bloodstone . Like others in the CIA at the time , he ignored the Nazi past of some of them , including such notables as Gustav Hilger , who had links to the creation of the SS Einsatzgruppen massacre squads , and Nicholas Poppe , a Russian linguist and Nazi collaborator who helped plan the extermination of the Jews . His other responsibilities included the oversight of labor and émigré affairs , as well as the National Committee for Free Europe , parent of Radio Free Europe , which began radio broadcasts into Czechoslovakia in 1950 using a transmitter Offie borrowed from the U.S. Army
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Carmel Offie