Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

Blum made no deep imprint on the BND, exercising a light hand and retiring on 31 July 1985. He died in Stuttgart on 9 July 2003. ...

Deutschlands (SPD). Yet in March 1990, his role as an MfS informer for more than 20 years became known, and he soon resigned his ...

refuge to their top leaders in the SD residence located in the German Embassy compound. Despite Himmler’s approval of this actio ...

Justice Department. A terminal illness prevented his deportation, and he died in the United States the next year. BORCHARDT, PAU ...

Bundestag in 1965, he became a member of the legislative leadership in 1970 and of the European Parliament in 1971. Throughout t ...

which helped Bos to continue filming and delivering confidential information. Approximately six months later, he was reassigned ...

Lettow-Vorbeck, Hippel had witnessed the successful guerrilla war conducted against Allied colonial troops in East Africa and pr ...

proved merely short-term and had no lasting military significance. After the dissolution of the Abwehr in early summer 1944, mos ...

Eastern bloc. At a critical juncture in April 1972, the Hauptver- waltung Aufklärung (HVA) under Markus Wolf helped save the Bra ...

paper. Luftwaffe chief Hermann Göring had ultimate authority for their contents and distribution, which occurred by courier unde ...

BROCKEN. The site of a former major signals intelligence installation of the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), the Brocken ...

At the end of the war, by presenting false papers in the name of Al- ois Schmaldienst, Brunner managed to elude capture and even ...

ing house searches, and interrogating individuals or asking the police or other government bodies to use these powers on its beh ...

BUNDESBEAUFTRAGTE FÜR DIE UNTERLAGEN DES STAATSSICHERHEITSDIENSTES DER EHEMALIGEN DEUTSCHEN DEMOKRATISCHEN REPUBLIK (BStU). The ...

of Stasi transcripts of intercepted telephone conversations, which provoked the dogged resistance of the new director, Marianne ...

Israel (Operation blaumeise), and an important intelligence-sharing relationship developed with France. Spheres of influence wer ...

impressed by her “excellent qualities” that he handled her personally. In March 1964, she completed extensive espionage training ...

placed in the mausoleum dedicated to Guevara. Following her death, Bunke became a highly venerated figure in both Cuba and the G ...

– C – CANARIS, WILHELM (1887–1945). An enigmatic anti-Nazi admiral who headed the Abwehr, Wilhelm Canaris was born in Aplerbeck ...

Hans Oster found refuge in the Abwehr, and acting together in 1939, they dispatched Josef Müller to explore the possibility of a ...