Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

lawyer William Donovan, future head of the Office of Strategic Ser- vices. Leverkuehn’s conscription in 1939 led initially to an ...

LIEBETANZ, REINHARD (1936– ). An officer of the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) suspected of being a double agent, Reinhar ...

parents. After eight years of school, he became a weaver and joined the Sozialistische Arbeiterjugend Österreichs, the Austrian ...

After the war, he returned to Czechoslovakia and resumed his career as a weaving manager. Because the Soviet Control Com- missio ...

Czechoslovakia, he and his wife resettled near the border in Zille. He died on 16 May 1961. LINSE, WALTER. See UNTERSUCHUNGSAUSS ...

Far Eastern correspondent for two leading Nazi publications—Der Angriff and the Völkischer Beobachter—Lissner established useful ...

LIZIUS, BERNHARD. One of the most prized informers working for the Mainzer Informationsbüro (MIB), Bernhard Lizius was originall ...

Firth of Forth. His cover included an American passport in the name of Charles A. Inglis. British authorities, however, began to ...

energy agency and not the Ministerium fur Staatssicherheit. In 1978, his value to the VA was further enhanced by his elevation t ...

prisoners of war for the British army in Cairo. With the formation of the state of Israel in May 1948 came a period of service i ...

Lubig’s activity continued until her early retirement in 1989. The following year, however, the defection of HVA officer Heinz B ...

gaining important military information. A more advantageous situa- tion materialized with his appointment to the data processing ...

ers were given lesser terms. Ludwig remained confined at Alcatraz Island until his deportation in 1953. LUMMER, HEINRICH (1932– ...

Offiziere im besonderen Einsatz before his successful resettlement as an Illegaler (code name brest) in Hamburg in 1972. After h ...

LUXBURG AFFAIR. A serious rupture in Germany’s relationship with Argentina during World War I, the Luxburg Affair had its origin ...

his ready access to inside information, his books and articles con- tain a wealth of detail, but their tone is also highly tende ...

two decades, his voluminous reports, routinely dictated on a tape recorder, focused on internal party matters as well as the act ...

to a larger workspace in the Old Admiralty Building—Room 40 (which became the undercover designation of the naval codebreak- ing ...

August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, and Heinrich Laube also appeared frequently in the confidential reports. Having manag ...

not only in the German Democratic Republic but also among leading officials in the Federal Republic of Germany. Generously subsi ...