Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

hunger strike—not unlike many IRA prisoners—and was released eight days later to avoid any negative publicity. For reasons still ...

earlier warning of its inevitability caused officials to reconsider his suitability. In February 1942, he was arrested by Swedis ...

of Ostpolitik. This emotional reunion—Honecker had worked under Wehner at the time of the Saar plebiscite—marked the beginning o ...

in 1975—appointed a senior officer for special tasks—and retired from the HVA in 1980. He died on 30 May 1984. WEIRAUCH, LOTHAR ...

included hermann, german, hans, and wanja). Its success led to its expansion in Western Europe and Germany, and it came to form ...

Wesemann’s most notorious act was aiding in the abduction of Berthold Jacob, a fellow exile journalist based in Strasbourg. Yet ...

1952, when Heusinger was named head of the military division of the Blank Office (the forerunner of the West German Defense Mini ...

The victory of the Social Democratic coalition the following year compounded Wessel’s problems. Anxious to exert his control ove ...

and that operations abroad were not the sole prerogative of the Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung. See also OPERATIONSGEBIET. WIECK, HA ...

to orders—he began to engage his own Arab agents to investigate terrorist attacks being planned at the Libyan People’s Bureau in ...

recovery of 1 million DM in agent payments. Although pardoned in 1999 by President Roman Herzog because of his failing health, W ...

WILLMS, WILHELM. A double agent working for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), Wilhelm Willms operated a tobacco shop in Ham ...

early years. According to local MfS records, the period June–Decem- ber 1955 alone saw an exodus of 931 persons. Because of the ...

lieutenant in the imperial navy when his light cruiser, the Dresden, sank off the coast of Chile during an encounter with Britis ...

acclaim greeted her first novel, Der geteilte Himmel (The Divided Heaven), in 1963, which was followed by numerous other works. ...

was primarily logistic—establishing “an illegal residence for liaison and maintenance” in a neutral country. Yet recruitments ne ...

XV of the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS) within a year, and his promotion to major general followed six months later. Un ...

legal separation from the ruling party or oversight mechanisms were mentioned. Wolf simply exhorted the younger cadres to follow ...

Himmler’s expanding treasury. In 1936, Wolff made a secret alliance with Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Sicherheitsdienst and a ...

about Himmler drew attention to his own wartime activities and caused the Bavarian Ministry of Justice to charge him with “abet- ...