Jung, through his patient Mary Bancroft, was introduced to Office of Strategic Services director Allen Dulles. Bancroft was also a mistress of Dulles, who had recruited her as a spy to get information from a German intelligence officer about the plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944. I look forward to the movie.
Carl Jung: Spy 488
Allen Dulles of the OSS Recruits C.G.Jung During WW2
“According to Deirdre Bair, Jung. A Biography, when Allen Dulles entered Switzerland in November 1942 he was secretly working as the “advance man” for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Switzerland. (Dulles would later be placed in charge of the CIA.)
“For some time, Jung became Dulles’s ‘ sort of senior advisor on a weekly, if not almost daily, basis.’”
The following year, “Jung became ‘Agent 488’ in Dulles’s reports to OSS offices in Washington and London, and 488’s dispatches were considered fact and figured prominently in the agency’s operational policies.”
Dulles said that Jung “[understood] the characteristics of the sinister leaders of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
His judgment on these leaders and on their likely reactions to passing events was of real help to me in gauging the political situation.
His deep antipathy to what Nazism and Fascism stood for was clearly evidenced in these conversations.
” In fact, Jung had constructed the first in-depth psychological profiles of political enemies, such as Hitler. “
By 1945 […] Jung’s views on how best to get [German] civilians to accept defeat were being read by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Jung’s analysis of Nazi propaganda was that it tried ‘to hollow out a moral hole with the hope of eventual collapse.’”
[Deirdre Bair, Jung. A Biography pp. 492-494]
Letter to Allen Dulles from C.G. Jung
February 1, 1945
My dear Dulles,
Since after my illness I get interested once more in the affairs of the world, the various ways of propaganda began to interest me. German propaganda tries inevitably to hollow out a moral hole with the hope of an eventual collapse. A better propaganda appeals to the moral strength and not to the feebleness of the enemy.
As far as the psychological effectiveness of Allied propaganda is concerned, it strikes me that the best things that have appeared so far are General Eisenhower’s proclamations to the German people.(c)
These proclamations, couched in simple, human language which anyone can understand, offer the German people something they can cling to and tend to strengthen any belief which may exist in the justice and humanity of the Americans. Thus they appeal to the best in the German people, to their belief in idealism, truth, and decency. They fill up the hole of moral inferiority, which is infinitely better propaganda than destructive insinuations.
General Eisenhower certainly should be congratulated.
C.G. Jung
Original caricature: David Levine