The wartime marriage with Gerhard Beetz ended in divorce in 1947 . War had ended in May 1945 and although the Thuringia region was liberated from the Nazis by the US army , the wartime allies had already agreed that Weimar and the region surrounding it should be administered as part of the Soviet occupation zone . The next phase in Hildegard Beetz 's life unfolded not in her ( former ) home town but further to the south , in Bavaria which was administered as part of the American zone . From subsequently declassified intelligence documents it is clear that by the middle of June 1945 she had already been questioned in some detail , probably in Munich , under the direction of Lt. Col. Andrew H. Berding of the Twelfth United States Army Group . The Americans decided early on that they might be able to make use of Beetz 's abilities . She provided Berding with insights into the thinking and possible intentions of her former boss , Wilhelm Höttl , providing , they noted , " partial confirmation of the suspicion that Dr. Hoettl had offered the services of his Southeastern Europe intelligence network to the Americans to further his own political ambitions in Austria . " Henry Hecksher , who in 1946 became head of OSS counterintelligence in Berlin , described Beetz approvingly as " probably one of those extremely rare Germans who understand and are sympathetic to Democracy . " US Intelligence decided to use Beetz as a " penetrating agent " in Munich . They gave her the code name " Gambit " . It was proposed that she should obtain a secretarial job through a local employment agency and join the Roman Catholic Church in order to provide suitable cover . Despite her record of " freelancing " there was some confidence that she could be controlled , because as a former member of German intelligence during the Nazi period she fell into the " automatic arrest " category . Also her husband was still being held by the Americans as a prisoner of war . In a vetting recorded on 12 October 1945 Beetz herself insisted she had always been a " reluctant Nazi " and that she had stopped paying her party membership fees during her time working for the German government in Rome . She now found a job with a translation bureau in Munich . Business was booming . The bureau was owned by a man who had been a committed Nazi but was now converted , with equivalent passion , to communism . " ... Engage yourselves with the ideals of Socialism " , urged one of the tracts that he published around this time . However , by the end of 1945 her OSS handlers had the impression that Agent " Gambit " was " underutilized " because she had only very limited opportunities to make appropriate contacts
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