Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

former criminals, but its overly centralized communications system played directly into the hands of the British mail intercepti ...

(including the use of forged documents) began to circulate in the gen- eral public, forcing him to resign in 1847 rather than fa ...

personal ties ever developed between the two men, and Stieber is barely mentioned in Bismarck’s three-volume memoirs. The overri ...

with Turkey, but frail health prevented him from accepting the offer. He died on 29 January 1882. An alleged autobiography of St ...

klaus), Gerhard Arnold (code name sturm), Rolf Dobbertin (code name sperber), and most important of all, Karl Hauffe (code name ...

STÖBERHAI. The site of a major Cold War listening post maintained by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Stöberhai is a ...

and estimates gleaned from numerous conversations proved quite satisfactory to his VA superiors. On 9 March 1967, Stoeber was ar ...

STOTZINGEN MISSION. The covert attempt to establish a German foothold in southern Arabia during World War I, the Stotzingen Mis- ...

Berlin office of the Gestapo in 1937, he came to direct the wartime subdivision dealing with enemy agents who had been paradropp ...

outside of Verdun, he tried to commit suicide but only managed to blind himself and mutilate one side of his face. A month later ...

and counted the Sektor Technik und Wissenschaft as its first user. Each piece of information collected abroad by the HVA was giv ...

the MfS regional administration of Neubrandenburg. A recipient of the GDR’s Service of the Fatherland Award, Szinda died on 23 S ...

also called by its opponents the “German Cheka,” having been mod- eled after the Soviet secret police. Its leader was Felix Neum ...

States in 1938. Remaining politically detached, he found work as a weaver in a New Hampshire factory and obtained American citiz ...

TELEPHONE EAVESDROPPING AFFAIR. The revelation of il- legal surveillance techniques in the Federal Republic of Germany, the Tele ...

Ter Braak was born Engelbertus Fukken in the Netherlands. Para- dropped on 2 November 1940 near Haversham in Buckinghamshire, he ...

TEUFELSBERG. The location of a key British and American signals intercept facility during the Cold War, the Teufelsberg (Devil’s ...

British Broadcasting Company and later with the police department in Hanover. Most significant was his leadership of the Ostbüro ...

Gestapo office in Kladno for interrogation. Thümmel conceded his contact with the Czech resistance but insisted it had occurred ...

dismissal of his former BfV superior, Heribert Hellenbroich, only recently appointed head of the Bundesnachrichtendienst. A furt ...