Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

Russian affairs even after moving to Leipzig. In 1939, he joined the Abwehr, attracting the attention of Wilhelm Canaris, who de ...

the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit during the period 1956–1989. The number of inmates averaged 150–180 and included dissidents ...

Berlin administration. Rising steadily thereafter, Beater (code name Krüger)—described as a “tough intriguer” by Markus Wolf—was ...

Reinhard Heydrich, Hermann Behrends was born in Rüstringen (Lower Saxony) on 11 May 1907, the son of an innkeeper. In 1932, afte ...

German communists later maintained—quite erroneously—that Bell’s prior knowledge of the Reichstag fire was the main motive behin ...

BEREZINO. See SCHERHORN. BERG, HERMANN VON (1933– ). An important undercover dip- lomat of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) ...

to Bonn, allowed her to divulge important diplomatic information to the HVA under the code name nova. Tips provided by a defecto ...

In addition to the prison, labor camp “X,” and two departments charged with instituting criminal proceedings, the restricted zon ...

Even though knowledge of the tunnel had been passed to the So- viets by the British double agent George Blake, the intelligence ...

1980s. In 1997, when the metallic tube was unexpectedly unearthed during a construction project, a 45-foot section was salvaged ...

Following Heydrich’s assassination and the appointment of Ernst Kaltenbrunner as his successor, the project became reconstituted ...

to his assistant, Krüger disappeared with the genuine currency that he had amassed from various illicit dealings, such as the sa ...

and agents to planning anticolonial agitation in the British Empire and eventually to the explosion at Black Tom Island, contrib ...

rapidly during the following years. The construction of the RSHA in 1939 was largely based on his ideas, and he became head of S ...

the following year by the Gestapo for preparing for acts of high treason and was imprisoned in Silesia until 1939. Bialek’s ille ...

Biermann’s behalf resulted, prompting heated discussions within the MfS. His close surveillance continued undiminished during hi ...

compromise that tightened the accessibility of Stasi information collected through spying and prohibited the release of this mat ...

intelligence related to Great Britain. Married to a Japanese woman, he was also an important source of information during his po ...

BLEICHER, HUGO (1899–2000?). An exceptionally adroit Abwehr agent working in wartime France, Hugo Bleicher served in World War I ...

BLOCH, ERNST (1898–1945). An Abwehr officer responsible for the rescue of a prominent Jewish leader in Poland, Ernst Bloch was b ...