Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

order but in reality a declared atheist, he was a professor of natural sciences for several years at Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) ...

involving several Austrian Jacobins was uncovered. Hoping to ingra- tiate himself with the police by revealing the identity of o ...

Ignace Poretsky in 1931. After first serving as a courier, she used her U.S. passport to move to New York, where she was joined ...

Ignace Reiss (pseudonym Ignace Poretsky). Although they under- went intense interrogations and were kept under close surveillanc ...

Telegraph, the vehement reaction brought about Masson’s early re- tirement in fall 1945. Afterward, however, Masson remained loy ...

Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, on 7 August 1876, the daughter of a prosperous tradesman who went bankrupt. Following her marriage ...

in Madrid, Arnold von Kalle, with whom she exchanged pieces of information. What she obtained from Kalle was communicated to Lad ...

MAULWURF. The German equivalent of a mole, a Maulwurf is a high- level enemy agent concealed within an intelligence organization ...

Mayer was assigned by the Marine-Evidenzbüro to its office in Trieste in 1906. With the entry of Italy into the war, Mayer’s hea ...

anti-Nazi convictions led her to write a series of articles and books, under the name Hilda Monte, in conjunction with various s ...

to override his proposal. He also unsuccessfully promoted a propa- ganda scheme devised by Ignácz Trebitsch-Lincoln. Concerned a ...

dispatches—rarely reached Hitler himself. Because of objections from Joseph Goebbels and others, these reports were replaced in ...

pointing to his contact with Noel Field, a former American communist spy who had become the director of the Unitarian Service Co ...

involving Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and India, a Bonn court found Mertins and his closest colleagues innocent of any legal i ...

their extradition. Meyer’s retrial in October 1980 resulted in a 15-year prison term. The following years saw not only increasin ...

MIELKE, ERICH (1907–2000). The long-serving head of the Min- isterium für Staatssicherheit (MfS) whose name became nearly synony ...

information on any “negative occurrences.” Concerned that enemy agents were not only spreading illegal propaganda but also invol ...

relationship in security and intelligence matters, and Mielke had helped engineer Ulbricht’s ouster from power. They further fou ...

he was found guilty and sentenced to a six-year term. Diagnosed as senile (after being given an unconnected “official” red telep ...

of its duties and areas of jurisdiction were specifically enumerated. It was modeled on the Cheka, or Soviet secret police found ...