Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland, he commanded a partisan unit during the Slovakian uprising in 1944. Gold’s intelligence work ...

Goltz traveled to Berlin in October 1914 to discuss further mis- sions with both the Foreign Office and Abteilung IIIb but was a ...

considerable information by participating in local military exercises and training courses through organizations such as the Ges ...

main target, using information gathered in the south and working directly with the banned Irish Republican Army (IRA). Görtz (co ...

views and personal life. In the aftermath of the failed Uprising of 17 June 1953, the flow of material, according to Reinhard Ge ...

plicated was Gregori’s special assistant, Hans Pfotenhauer. Other VA officers, deliberately not apprised of the actual circumsta ...

GRIEBEL, IGNATZ (1899–?). An early Nazi spy active in the United States, Ignatz Griebel served as an artillery officer during Wo ...

GROSCURTH, HELMUTH (1898–1943). A senior Abwehr officer involved in the military conspiracy against Adolf Hitler, Helmuth Groscu ...

pragmatist, he succeeded Markus Wolf in 1986 as head of the HVA and deputy minister of the MfS. One of his most notable acts was ...

writer and photographer for the party’s district chapter newspaper, Guillaume became so involved that within a year the cover of ...

birthday greetings sent in the late 1950s from East Berlin had matched the birth dates of the Guillaumes—he was to be left in pl ...

In 1975, a Düsseldorf court found the Guillaumes guilty of trea- son, sentencing him to 13 years of imprisonment and her to eigh ...

a shipyard worker, he took part in the November Revolution of 1918 and joined the German Communist Youth League the following ye ...

clients. When the charges surfaced again in 1996, the Bundestag revoked his parliamentary immunity and proceeded with an inves- ...

East Berlin. His desire was to obtain the code name 006 (in order to be placed ahead of James Bond), but that never came to pass ...

years later involving East German agent Ule Lammert enabled his return to the Federal Republic of Germany. In his memoirs, Rein- ...

was monetary gain and not ideological commitment. He was sen- tenced to 40 years in prison, fined $50,000, and given a dishonora ...

ordered by Hermann Göring to fly to Francisco Franco’s headquar- ters in Madrid on a mission and discovering en route that he wa ...

but the British threatened to make his presence in the United States an issue in the upcoming presidential campaign. Hanfstaengl ...

Socialism eventually caused his expulsion from the official writers’ association, Hanstein nevertheless found employment during ...