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CARL JUNG, WWII GERMANY, & THE OSS

Carl Jung was recruited by Allen Dulles, through Mary Bancroft, to provide psychological profiles of
Hitler and the German psyche. Dulles met with him on several occasions; Eisenhower read his
report before the final invasion of Germany.

It is quite difficult to track down this information; some of it can be found in the furnished links at
the bottom of the post. It was Deidre Barr, in Jung, a Biography, who first reported this information.
In Jung: A Biography, author Deidre Bair tells us that Jung was “Agent 488″. He secretly worked for
the Office of Strategic Services, which was the predecessor to the CIA. His first contact with the
OSS was through his patient Mary Bancroft. She worked for Allan Dulles who was the OSS chief in
Switzerland and later became the first Director of the CIA. In 1941, during World War II, Jung’s job
was to analyze the psychology of leaders. In return Jung became privy to top-secret Allied
intelligence. In 1945, General Dwight Eisenhower read Jung’s ideas for persuading the German
public to accept defeat. Allan Dulles relied on Jung’s psycholgical advice, including Jung’s
prediction that Hitler would kill himself. Later, Dulles said that “nobody will probably ever know
how much Professor Jung contributed to the Allied cause during the war… [and that his work
needed to remain] highly classified for the indefinite future.”
Source
On one of these trips, Hyde traveled from Lyon to just inside the Swiss border where he was met
by car by Mary Bancroft. Mary got out of the car; kissed Henri on both cheeks, and drove off in
another car with a man. Hyde drove Mary’s car to the Geneva Airport, picked up Paul Mellon
(O.S.S.-MO) who had just flown in from England. Hyde drove Mellon to a beautiful old hotel
overlooking Lausanne where Jung was waiting for him upstairs in a hotel room. Mellon’s mission
was to hear Jung’s psychoanalysis of Hitler’s mind and the German collective unconscious. Hyde
waited for Mellon in the hotel lobby, then drove Mellon back after his meeting with Jung. Paul and
Mary Mellon had been patients of Jung’s since 1938. Mellon wanted to see Jung again during the
war; family therapy revisited. Paul and Mary, husband-wife patients of Jung, had raved to their
brother-in-law OSS Station Chief London, David Bruce, who had married Paul’s sister Aisle, about
Jungian psychoanalysis.
Source
Note: The following article is from a relatively unsourced website, so the information should
obviously only be considered tentatively. It relays information that I was unable to find anywhere
else. it does follow fairly closely with other information about Jung’s recruitment by Allen Dulles
Sunday, October 14, 2007
C.G. Jung and Allen Dulles
A fair translation of
http://www.webdo.ch/he…/hebdo_2000/hebdo_52/52_epoque_1.html

The “Profiler” of Hitler

The Swiss psychoanalyst of the collective unconscious collaborated with the American secret
service between 1942 and 1945, protected by future CIA Director Allen Dulles.
His analyses of Hitler and Mussolini for propaganda purposes interested General Eisenhower.
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Jocelyn Rochat
For code 105, Burns [an alias for A. Dulles]. I contacted the famous psychoanalyst, professor C. G
Jung. His analyses of the reactions of German leaders, especially of Hitler because of his
psychopathic tendencies, should not be underestimated. Jung is persuaded that Hitler will resort
until the end with all despaired measurements, but he does “not exclude the possibility of a suicide
in one moment from crisis.” Words simple, direct, classified as “secret” and dispatched of Bern in
the afternoon of February 3, 1943 to announce a small revolution. Artisanal beginnings of
“psychological shaping”, still experimental marriage of espionage and psychoanalysis applied to the
highest level. Because the enigmatic “Burns”, the mailer of this telegram (see our exclusive
reproduction on page 47) is no other than Allen Dulles, a Master of American espionage entered
Switzerland early and was installed in the heart of Bern. As for “105,” the coded recipient of the
message, it appears to be colonel David Bruce, one of the heads of the OSS, the Office of Strategic
Services, ancestor of the current CIA.
How one of the most significant spies of the century (Allen Dulles will be propelled to the head of
the CIA in the post-war period) and Carl Gustav Jung, the inventor and explorer of the concept of
the collective unconscious, compare their reflections during WW II and enter the psyche of Hitler? It
is the history which tell of the recently declassified American documents and of the new Swiss
sources found by “Hebdo”. As many files show this collaboration, as all that touches with the
psychoanalysis, thrived in quite disconcerting circumstances.

The mistress
It all begins with the arrival in Bern of Allen Dulles at the end of 1942, a few hours before the
complete closing of the borders. Dulles’s mission, as explained in “Underground Germany”,
consisted in “making to a report/ratio on the secret movement of anti-Nazis in Germany”. What
pushed him to contact Dr. Jung was appreciation of his knowledge of the Germanic heart, shared
during a discussion in Harvard in 1936.
Dulles is not satisfied to see Jung collect useful information (as the telegram of February 3, 1943
shows): He also recruits one of Jung’s patients. Was the patient recommended by the
psychoanalyst? We are unaware of this. But we know that the American spy “tended to accept the
judgement of Dr. Jung of the man” (even an unknown, note) “as long as one had not brought the
undeniable proof of the opposite to him” (new letter of March 14, 1950, reproduced below).
The Master spy, who lacks personnel in Switzerland, thus trusts a named beginner, Mary Bancroft,
journalist, American and wife of a Swiss citizen, she then took treatment from professor Jung to rid
herself of repetitious sneezes. This 38 year-old romantic woman is favorably impressed by Dulles,
“this 49 year-old pipe smoker with the pink face, a gray tweed and equipped with a pair of piercing
blue eyes, with the air of open and merry manners.” She falls under the charm of Dulles and
accepts the offer of employment. Here it is the apprentice spy, and soon mistress of her owner.
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On the couch
Carl G Jung profits in turn from the confidences of Mary Bancroft and the regular visits of Dulles,
as this last in a letter gone back to February 1950 explains it (Allen Dulles Papers, Université of
Princeton, Box 39, folder 3): “During my stay in Switzerland, I from time to time had long
conversations with Dr. Jung concerning the political news and the characteristics of the disasters
leaders of the Nazi Germany and fascistic Italy.”
As many meetings which make it possible to the psychoanalyst to observe the operation of the duet
of American spies. Amused, it launches in Mary Bancroft while drawing on its pipe: “Your friend
Dulles is hard to cook, I am content that you are his confidante.” Which hastens to encourage Jung
to specify its thought: “Of the men like Allen, very ambitious and in stations of being able, need to
intend female opinions to give best their judgements and not to exceed the limits.”
The beginner has well sorrow to hold her language. She precipitates at Jung as soon as Dulles
entrusts a mission to him which requires greatest discretion, as she explains it in “Autobiography
of has spy” (this autobiographical work published in New York in 1983 is unperceived past and is
quasi untraceable in Switzerland, note).
Jung learns thus that Allen Dulles required of Mary Bancroft to write a book on the plot missed
against Hitler, by tapping a maximum of information to the passage to surviving plotters, Hans
Bernd Gisevius, a spy of Abwehr based in Switzerland.
Very quickly informed of the bonds which link Dulles and Bancroft with Jung, Gisevius also requires
him to meet the psychoanalyst. It had indeed been impressed by the article of 1936 devoted to
“Wotan”, the German god of the war whose Jung announced the alarm clock devastator.
The interview offers a new role to Jung, quickly promoted consulting in interrogations. Having
discussed with Gisevius, Jung advises Mary Bancroft on the tone right to adopt with its German
interlocutor “to make him spit the piece”: “never ask him a fact! It is of the same psychological type
as you: this kind of question would put it out of him and it would be the end of the discussion free,
associative, which makes it possible to learn from the things.”
Put at the current of the meetings of the Jung-Bancroft-Gisevius trio, and thus of the indiscretions
of a sound apprentice, Allen Dulles called not. But it ends up exploding when Mary evokes its
extraordinary capacity to send mental messages to Gisevius, gift which intrigued Jung at the point
to require long explanations of him on this subject.
It is that, well before the invention of the gadgets worthy of 007, Mary Bancroft and Gisevius had
developed a means of communicating that would not have disavowed Q, the equipment supplier of
Jump. Mary Bancroft claims indeed that it was enough for him to think of Gisevius during ten
minutes so that this last understands that it was to call it. An anecdote which is not taste of Dulles
which launches to its mistress: “I would like that you cease these enfantillages! I do not make a
point of entering the history because I am quoted in a note with the bottom of a page detailing the
cases studied by Jung!”
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Injustice
The American spy feared that the posterity does not forget its work of the shade not to retain that
will have it dazzling of Jung. It is however the reverse which occurred. The specialists in the
psychoanalysis spent these five last decades chamailler to know if one were or not to present Jung
like a sympathizer Nazi, suspicion that Dulles qualified into 1950 of “gossip” (rumour) and that Jung
charges to “its enemies the American Freudians which hate it” (new letter of September 24, 1945
deposited at the polytechnic School of Zurich).
During this time, the specialists in espionage detailed the exploits of Dulles without discovering the
discrete traces of its profitable collaboration with Jung. A lapse of memory which should be soon
repaired, as the last sums devoted to Dulles show it which start to briefly announce the presence
of Jung among its consultants (to read in particular “Allen Dulles” by James Srodes, 1999,
“Gentleman spy” by Peter Grose, 1996 and “From Hitler’s doorstep” of Neal Petersen “, 1998). An
injustice that the close relations could have repaired more quickly, if they had dared to evoke their
memories publicly: “the members of the family knew that Jung had known Dulles, Ulrich Hörni
confirms, who takes care on the files of the psychoanalyst in Switzerland, but they never spoke
about it openly. You include/understand, this kind of subject was rather secret.”