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Players/Postwar Intelligence Institutional History (Report #168)

Project SYMPHONY (1946)

The liaison's operational seed

[Report #168] March 1946, Austria: SSU officers under Maj. Edward P. Barry watched Soviet NKVD attempts to infiltrate the Brichah refugee streams. Angleton's X-2 staff built trust channels with Jewish Agency operatives including Teddy Kollek — the seed of the CIA–Israel relationship, five years before the handshake (finding #168.005).