Was Müller the highest ranking man in intelligence in Nazi Germany with the exception of Admiral Walter Canaris?
He was the head of the secret police, which I have pointed out was a state organization and not a party organization. He went from that into the Gestapo in 1934-35. He came to Berlin and was given different sections to run. When Canaris started to go down the drain, Müller acquired most of his duties and his files; certainly all counterintelligence activities. Later as the war progressed, he ran the 20th of July Commission. Toward the end of the war he was in charge of all intelligence. It was phenomenal how much he controlled. He had the files of all the intelligence organizations; he even had control of the telephone-tapping group. Is it possible to estimate how much intelligence information he passed to us? He gave the United States what we were interested in, which was information on the Soviet Union; Soviet agents in the United States; Soviet agents in Great Britain. It was what we really wanted and we paid him $1 million for it. Anything dealing with what went on inside Germany d
