Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

The Abwehr’s wartime performance was a decidedly mixed one. It scored a number of important successes, notably in the invasion o ...

ABWEHRSTELLE (AST). A field unit responsible for Abwehr es- pionage activities, an Abwehrstelle replicated the tripartite divisi ...

after the Uprising of 17 June 1953, when he was linked to a faction led by Wilhelm Zaisser and Rudolf Herrnstadt and had to forf ...

quency, although a replacement one could be requested from Abwehr control in the event of poor or nonexistent reception. Agents ...

the entry of the United States into the war. Albert subsequently had a successful career in international business before his de ...

eventual residence in Cairo. With the outbreak of World War II, he had to return to Budapest, where he was recruited by Nikolaus ...

Affairs). Even though his trial for wartime treason in the communist People’s Court resulted in an acquittal, rumors circulated ...

there was no mention of the vast numbers of Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (unofficial collaborators) or of any significant changes in ...

Republic (GDR), Alexander (Sascha) Anderson was born in Weimar on 24 August 1953 and adopted by a couple in Dresden with profes- ...

data about previously exposed agents. It revealed a favored technique of the Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (HVA)—disguising its ope ...

among the Czechs anticipated by Beneš never materialized. Even after the war, Beneš, embarrassed by the scale of the reprisals, ...

file formal charges, he was detained in a Swedish mental institution until the last months of the war. ATLAS. A failed attempt t ...

in Lodz, Poland. Fluent in Russian and Polish, he worked at the List Verlag in Leipzig as a editor. Joining the SD in May 1936, ...

Hauptverwaltung V and later Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung, it be- came part of the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit. AUSSPÄHEN. A t ...

case in a locker in the Western section of the station, which would be retrieved by an MfS case officer with a special permit to ...

invasion of the Low Countries, where his responsibilities included the deportation of Jews. Even more significant was his transf ...

nist party led to his expulsion for “petty bourgeois behavior” and loss of his government job. Recruited by the OG, he in turn e ...

His new position, however, proved short-lived. In August 1950, Bauer was arrested and charged with having cooperated with Noel F ...

Bauernschmid’s work commenced with the establishment of the MIB in 1833. He requested a release two years later, prompted in par ...

By 1977, Baumann had established a working relationship with the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) through an East Berlin doctor, Ch ...