General Donovan was informed about the Moltke connection, and a series of consultations were conducted by General Tindal, by the OSS Director himself and his closest aides, and outside consultants even after Count von Moltke was arrested by the Gestapo in January 1944. It appears that he may have been betrayed by Fritz Laufer, “Dogwood's” own and much trusted agent. For his part, the OSS Director was advised not to deal with some opposition groups in and outside Germany whose aims, strength, composition, and influence were questionable.

Behind this advice one could discern the fear that such a Western German coup could have blurred the principle of proving Nazism as a complete military and political disaster inflicted on Germany by Hitler's military incompetence combined with his ideology, thus avoiding another November 1918 situation that not only left Germany with its army intact but indeed created the political climate that allowed it to claim a military defeat as a lost victory or misuse American commitments made by President Wilson as if they had been broken all the way to Versailles, creating a rift with the Soviet Union.

Hitler was certainly doing his best to prevent a second November 1918, which was the crucial experience in his life that transformed him into a “Politiker,” and he would use any means possible to avoid the collapse of the home front and split the Allies by using propaganda means as well, including the “Jew's war” slogan, which was primarily aimed toward the West.