The Axmann Conspiracy by Scott Andrew Selby

Author:Scott Andrew Selby [Selby, Scott Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101611388
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2012-09-03T16:00:00+00:00

As Hans Jaeger, Jack Hunter often went out on his own to see Tessmann’s operations firsthand. His responsibilities included checking on the reach of this organization throughout Germany. As Hunter later wrote, Agent Reis “spearheaded the Bavarian investigation, I handled the nationwide stuff. He did not know everything I knew (he was kept on a need-to-know basis) and we were seen together rarely.”20

As the case officer for Operation Nursery, Hunter led a dual life—some days he worked in the impressive Farben Building as a U.S. Army officer, while on others he was undercover as a black marketer. To illustrate what his workweek was like, Hunter wrote, “On Mondays and Tuesdays, I could be in Frankfurt, wearing [a] Class-A uniform and giving a flip-chart briefing to my bosses on the current situation in the Nursery affair.…On Wednesdays I’d drive the 200-some miles to Munich, where I’d changed into civilian clothes and become Hans Jäger.”21

As Hunter explained, he “would use these Munich visits to follow up on new leads, or other aspects of Nursery beyond the purview of Reis and Hochschild. I usually avoided contacting those two directly, thus lowering the risk of over-exposure, and I rarely visited CIC headquarters [in Munich].”22 Instead, Hunter was either at his safe house in Munich or out in the field.

His Munich safe house was a large, three-story property where Hunter could meet up with other agents and spend the night. It was located a few blocks from the Isar River at Flemingstrasse 49. This is the same river that runs through Bad Tölz.

Hunter and Kulas got along well. Earlier on in the investigation, Agent Reis had introduced them. Hunter understood Kulas’s motivations—to save his own hide and his belief that those in the Tessmann concern would ultimately get caught anyways. He also claimed to have abandoned his Nazi views.

Besides protecting Kulas from war crimes investigators, Hunter approved financial compensation to him for his help with this operation.

While in Frankfurt, in addition to briefing his superiors on this ongoing operation, Hunter had paperwork to do. While sitting behind his desk in the Farben Building, he carefully read through Reis’s reports. He also went through the reports of other agents in Germany, looking for any connections to Operation Nursery. Hunter compiled all the information gathered by field agents and made charts and lists of names of possible figures of interest. He then took that information and ran it by other agencies, such as the British and the OSS, to see what else he could find out. Although far from glamorous, this was a key part of the running of an operation and necessary for identifying everyone that would eventually need to be picked up when the operation came to a close.

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