Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

With ample funds at his disposal, he bought a country estate in Ireland the following year and began breeding horses. Skorzeny ...

who prosecuted the case in Erfurt was given a 10-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay 10,000 DM to the Smolka family as c ...

John Paul II in 1978. Remaining generally independent of Poland’s own security service (which the HVA considered much too lax), ...

University in 1919, it was his role as an agitator and propagandist for the newly formed Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD ...

A lucrative friendship developed with Eugen Ott, the senior military attaché at the embassy who became the German ambassador in ...

SOSNOWSKI, GEORG (1896–1942?). A Polish officer who pen- etrated the Reichswehr Ministry, Georg Sosnowski had served in the Aust ...

regarding nuclear strategy. Set against the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis, these charges had particular resonance. Accord ...

defense minister submitted his resignation. Although Adenauer saved his coalition government and announced the formation of a ne ...

After the collapse of the GDR, the soccer team adopted the name FC Berlin to minimize its widely known past Stasi affiliation, b ...

SPY EXCHANGES. See GLIENICKER BRIDGE. SQUILLACOTE, THERESA MARIA. See STAND, KURT ALAN, and SQUILLACOTE, THERESA MARIA. SS. An e ...

STAATSPOLIZEILICHER DIENST (Stapo). The domestic secret service branch of the post–World War II Austrian police, the Staats- pol ...

frontline combat on both the eastern and western fronts. In July 1917, a fierce engagement in Flanders led to his capture by the ...

Ministerium für Staatssicherheit. In summer 1932, under orders of Georgi Dimitroff, the secretary of the Comintern’s West Euro- ...

first sent to Schwerin to establish a courier network along the East- West zonal boundary and guard the party against enemy infi ...

used prominently against Wehner in Operation Wotan in 1961, a later internal MfS investigation concluded that Mewis, not Wehner, ...

arrest of the trio in October 1997, Clark agreed to provide testimony and therefore received a reduced sentence of 12 years. Squ ...

Abel and Francis Gary Power at the Glienicker Bridge on 10 Febru- ary 1962. Later that year, Stange and Vogel expanded the scope ...

War II, the Abwehr enlisted Starziczny (code name lucassen) with the intention of paradropping him into England because of his k ...

STEFFEN-DIENSTBACH CASE. A major instance of Soviet indus- trial espionage in Weimar Germany, the Steffen-Dienstbach case involv ...

Soviet Union. His 1948 death sentence was subsequently revised to 20 years’ imprisonment due to new information. Released in 195 ...