Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

His unhappiness with this position, however, led him to devise a new arrangement with Tsar Alexander I, whereby he would relocat ...

first major contact—the freight manager of a Swedish firm based at Bromma Airport—was the nucleus of a network known under the c ...

facility in Bad Ems and was posted afterward to Kiel. In 1968, when he offered his services to the MfS, he met with some suspici ...

Kraus speculated that his defection delayed the erection of the Berlin Wall. Already the object of rumors during his tenure at t ...

December 1904, the son of a sailor. Returning from several years at sea and joining the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands in Ma ...

colleagues he helped bring into the fledgling organization were two KGB moles, Hans Clemens and Heinz Felfe. Krichbaum’s own dou ...

on 27 August 1953, while Susanne, a secretary, followed nine days later. As defectors, they testified before various groups, inc ...

communist party politics continued after the reunification of Ger- many in 1990. He died in Berlin on 6 August 1997. KUCZYNSKI, ...

Living outside Oxford, she built an espionage network that in- cluded her father and her older brother, Jürgen Kuczynski. While ...

KUEHN, BERNHARD OTTO (1894–1956). An Abwehr spy work- ing for the Japanese in Hawaii, Bernhard Otto Kuehn served as a naval offi ...

KURJO, ANDREAS. An agricultural specialist who worked for the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), Andreas Kurjo was re- crui ...

KURRAS, KARL-HEINZ (1927– ). A West German policeman and highly prized agent of the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS) who w ...

assurances. It was not until May 2009 that researchers accidentally discovered Kurras’s 17-volume MfS dossier and brought the ca ...

reduced armed forces after the war. Posted near the border in Lower Austria, he collected information about the newly formed Cze ...

former Abwehr officers from the Vienna office had already suffered this fate and later perished in the Gulag. He died in Innsbru ...

significant classified information to the press, Hans Langemann served with a reconnaissance unit on the eastern front during Wo ...

the termination of his exceedingly intricate and often suspect strategic service division—sometimes dubbed the “Langkau apparatu ...

MfS, he completed a doctoral dissertation on Richard Sorge at the Juristische Hochschule des MfS in 1979 and assumed a number of ...

embassy, located at 4 Castellana, and established a network of some 30 suboffices throughout the country as well as in the Canar ...

exile circles, Lessing was found stabbed to death outside Zurich on 4 November 1835. Among the prime suspects were Zacharias Ald ...