Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

captivity in Wales and Germany until 1948. His history of World War II, published in 1951 and relying on other eyewitness inform ...

MfS officers who had had long, distinguished careers. Among the first group were Fritz Schmenkel, Richard Sorge, Max Clausen, Il ...

missionary was followed by his return to England and his improbable election to the House of Commons in 1910 as a naturalized ci ...

agent and a control officer (or Führungsoffizier). Elaborate pre- cautionary steps are mandatory—signals, passwords, and circuit ...

was the defection of Abwehr officer Erich Vermehren in Istanbul. The Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS) viewed the potential ...

large public protest in West Berlin, the MfS transferred Linse to the So- viet MGB on 3 December 1952. Tried and convicted the f ...

VEESENMAYER, EDMUND (1904–1977). A prominent SS func- tionary involved in numerous subversion operations, Edmund Veesenmayer was ...

operation he designed to bring Ireland into a wartime alliance with Germany—Operation seeadler—never received permission to proc ...

VENLO INCIDENT. The abduction of two British intelligence of- ficers by members of the Gestapo in the Netherlands, the Venlo Inc ...

section deals with the actual event. For Hitler, the gains were nu- merous. Besides dealing a severe blow to British intelligenc ...

Cairo and Gibraltar, they arrived safely in London and found accom- modation at the South Kensington apartment of the mother of ...

1980 Verrept and Gludowacz took a circuitous route to the GDR. As was the case with Lorenzen, a full-scale propaganda campaign i ...

Mitarbeiter (unofficial collaborators) and placed its own Offiziere im besonderen Einsatz (officers in special deployment) in th ...

to pose as a CIA operative and attempt to enlist Wilhelm Keil, the head of the emigration surveillance division of the Bundesnac ...

Under the secret sponsorship of the MfS, Vogel established a law practice in the GDR but was also accepted for membership in the ...

Hochschule des MfS in 1970. His official rank of colonel under- stated his quasi-independent standing. On 15 February 1986, Volp ...

group, it escaped the notice of the relevant officer. After the war, Waetjen lived in Ascona, Switzerland. WAIBEL, MAX (1901–197 ...

area, the institute moved to Schloss Plankenwart near Graz, Austria. In this period, members of the institute worked closely wit ...

the British later used to help decipher the Zimmermann Telegram. His plan to extend the anti-British campaign to India also had ...

he again returned to Germany, dying impoverished in Berlin on 29 November 1931. WATTENWYL, FRIEDRICH MORITZ VON (1867–1942). The ...