Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

general public). At least 13 cases were handled in this fashion be- tween 1782–1789, nearly all of them involving espionage. Per ...

increased from a staff of 20–30 to a peak strength of nearly 200 dur- ing the war years. It also outgrew its offices in the Wilh ...

PETERSHAGEN, RUDOLF (1901–1969). A German military com- mander and convicted Soviet spy, Rudolf Petershagen was born in Hamburg ...

and tax evasion, Ludwig-Holger Pfahls completed his legal studies at Freiburg in 1971. After serving as an aide to Bavarian poli ...

U.S. secret services, and 94 to the French. Many of these agents had achieved high-level positions in industry and even the embr ...

September 1982, however, caused him deep concern for his own future. On 2 October—only hours after a meeting with his control of ...

left the Abwehr in late March 1943 and was given the command of an infantry division fighting on the eastern front. He was taken ...

Settling in Jena in 1991, Platzdasch established a career as a lawyer and journalist. The following year, he attended the burial ...

the Evidenzbüro through the reports sent by enemy troops, military attachés, embassy staff, and intelligence agents. As head of ...

POPOV, DUSAN (1912–1981). A key British double agent during World War II, Dusan (“Dusko”) Popov was born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, ...

prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He died in Opio on 10 August 1981. POPP, DIETER (1938– ). A long-term agent for th ...

the election campaign of 1961). Additional assistance to Porst, who showed an aversion to the mundane details of espionage work, ...

rejection prompted his new plan of becoming an Abwehr agent, which, he reasoned, would make him more attractive to the British. ...

months of the war, Pullach became the new location of the OG in December 1947 and was given the name Camp Nicholas. Apart from i ...

aggravating and soon terminated his services. After his return to Lon- don in January 1944, he worked with Otto John in preparin ...

Qaddafi’s security guard in Libya, Hans Dieter Raethjen served in a parachute regiment in the Bundeswehr. Transferred at his own ...

RAUFEISEN, ARMIN (1928–1987). A West German geophysicist who spied for the Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (HVA), Armin Raufeisen was ...

criminal. Unrepentant to the end, Rauff died in Santiago on 14 May 1984. RAUSSENDORF, KLAUS KURT VON (1936– ). An agent of the H ...

In 1993 they had to be abandoned by the Berlin State Prosecutor’s Office for insufficient cause. REDL, ALFRED (1864–1913). The n ...

headed by Redl’s former protégé Maximilian Ronge was then established. Although the surveillance officers missed Redl at his nex ...