No theory at this point. But a gut feeling. Highly speculative.
It was not unusual to break the naming pattern to honor someone special.
Often a dead person or someone really really special.
Can we find a deeply personal connection?
Has anybody a good sauce for 'Operation Bernhard'? Maybe a Clown archive?
Forgot to name the second sauce: CIA on Gehlen Vol. I-VII.
Can't find the link, was in mainbread a couple of days ago. It was a suggestion for the Merkel researchers.
Missed a lot the first read (qlink).
Equador: Alfons Sassen
Argentinia: Otto Skorzeny, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Heinrich Müller
Paraguay: The Clown author assumes Mengele
Egypt: Gehlen agents
Syria: Gehlen agents via Vatican
Gehlen's brother Johannes aka 'Brother Giovanni' aka 'Johannes Baum' was the head of ODEUM Rome.
Major General Horst Wendland aka 'Wendt' aka 'Holm' became Gehlen's successor.