Bund Deutscher Jugend

In the beginning of 1953 the BDJ and its paramilitary arm, the Technischer Dienst, were forbidden as extreme right-wing organisations because of the planned murder of roughly 40 people and the creation of a secret organization.

[citation needed] A 1952 raid by local police units on the BDJ's premises revealed that the U.S. funded the organization with a monthly budget of $50,000 and supplied it with arms, ammunition, and explosives.

Among them were Herbert Wehner, the former head of the SPD party, Erich Ollenhauer, the Hessian Minister of the Interior, Heinrich Zinnkann [de], and the Mayor of Hamburg and Bremen.

[citation needed] CIC agents continued to seize all remaining documents and refused to surrender them to West German authorities.

As a result of the ongoing investigation, U.S. authorities admitted to having paid the BDJ to train guerrillas in case of war with the Soviet Union.