Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

conviction of the Sütterlins. Heinz Sütterlin received a six-year sentence but escaped to Dresden via Yugoslavia in 1971; Leonor ...

HVA, the Rupps were arrested in Saarburg in 1993 while visiting relatives. On 17 November, he was sentenced by a Düsseldorf cour ...

kept him as the titular head, thereby allowing time for a thorough search for a successor and then the opportunity for the new c ...

the British army. Learning of the existence of a draft constitution in early 1819, Metternich directed one of his field marshals ...

Geneva were well regarded by Austrian chancellor Klemens von Metternich and continued until the dissolution of the MIB in 1848. ...

SATTLER, JAMES F. An American foreign policy consultant with ties to the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, James F. Sattler was ...

In 1966, he established a trading organization called Kommer- zielle Koordinierung, (KoKo; Commercial Coordination), which in 19 ...

Deutsch-deutsche Erinnerungen (German-German Memoirs), he not only defended his actions as director of KoKo but also conceded th ...

October 1929. A baker by training and a member of the Sozialist- ische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, he entered the East German p ...

following his transfer in 1939 to the intelligence branch of the For- eign Office in Berlin. Several of his reports to Moscow, b ...

and staff were eliminated. But his increasing apprehension about the outcome of the war led him to establish covert diplomatic c ...

electrical companies in Germany and Switzerland before founding his own firm—Scherbius and Ritter—in 1918. His design for a new ...

defending a position near the Berezino River, which had been de- feated after a two-week battle). Following the recruitment of S ...

Germany in August 1916. Two years later, he received a new as- signment in the Baltic countries as head of the army press bureau ...

SCHLICHT, GÖTZ (1908–?). A long-term East German informer working in the Untersuchungsausschuss Freiheitlicher Juristen (UFJ), G ...

by the German military attaché in Paris as Agent 17, he skillfully ex- ploited connections in the French capital prior to the Fr ...

Blankenhorn had provided confidential information to the French in exchange for safe passage to Spain for him and the Adenauer f ...

for his work, including three medals from Cuba and a friendship order from North Vietnam. At the time of its dissolution in 1989 ...

in May 1953. Her objective was the headquarters of U.S. Air Force intelligence at Tempelhof Airport, where she enticed several o ...

of his resemblance to music hall comedian Harry Tate, he received the code name tate. On 16 October, under MI5 supervision, Schm ...