Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

Internal Affairs). The first members of the legion were drawn from Indian prisoners of war captured in North Africa as well as I ...

ter (unofficial collaborators) formed the key component of the vast surveillance and intelligence network of the German Democrat ...

the sums were generally small and preference was given to rewards such as an automobile, an apartment, a telephone, or a coveted ...

strategic point in the Carpathian Mountains between Poland and Czechoslovakia. On 26 August 1939, not having received word of th ...

José Iturbide. U.S. Military Intelligence described him as a “charm- ing, cultured gentleman.” In the course of World War I, Jah ...

quality of the double agents it enlisted. In 1943, Jahnke’s Berlin villa was destroyed, and afterward he led a secluded life, mo ...

all officers and their agents after German reunification. He died in Berlin on 1 January 2006. JEBSEN, JOHANN (?–1944). An Abweh ...

socialist state. Show trials and imprisonment followed, with more than 2,000 members placed in confinement between 1950 and 1962 ...

by a West German government filled with too many unreconstructed Nazis and which could be better advanced by the German Demo- cr ...

Austria, John died in Innsbruck on 26 March 1997. See also WIT- TIG, CARL. JOST, HEINZ (1904–1964). The first head of the foreig ...

three years earlier and was living in Swiss exile. Mazzini’s larger plan called for the formation of Young Europe based on the c ...

years of active service. The vast majority of JHS dissertations (Diplo- marbeiten) dealt with issues involving Inoffizielle Mita ...

In May 1949, K-5 was separated from the other criminal police departments and placed under the auspices of the Interior Admin- i ...

1921 to 1926, receiving a doctorate as well as taking a prominent part in the student fraternity Arminia, whose boycotts and dem ...

station chief in Bern, Switzerland. Dulles, however, had no intention of reaching an agreement with the two declared war crimina ...

Rainer Hildebrandt, a staunch anticommunist who had been impris- oned by the Nazis on numerous occasions. The group attracted th ...

Kant was born in Hamburg on 14 June 1926, the son of a florist. Trained as an electrician, he was inducted into the Wehrmacht du ...

published a professional newsletter, which contained many articles written by his East German Instrukteur, Dr. Werner K. In addi ...

to lower German morale. Although the weapons and explosives he ordered never arrived and his group was temporarily penetrated by ...

KARMASIN, FRANZ (1901–1970). A German nationalist leader in Slovakia and later spy for Hungary, Franz Karmasin was born in Olmüt ...