Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

carefully scripted broadcasts by a fictitious resistance fighter named “Hagedorn” were beamed to the local population, emphasizi ...

Germany was blocked by government officials, who refused to honor his former status in the GDR and issue a replacement passport. ...

With the outbreak of World War I, Casement, viewing Germany as a natural ally for Irish independence, undertook a mission as the ...

CHAPMAN, EDWARD (1914–1997). A flamboyant British double agent during World War II, Edward Chapman was born in Burnop- field, Co ...

against him were dropped, while Gröning, who only learned of his double role much later, remained on friendly terms and attended ...

CICERO AFFAIR. Widely acknowledged as Nazi Germany’s most successful wartime enemy penetration, the cicero Affair revolved aroun ...

agreement with the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) just prior to accidentally becoming secretary to Bazna’s case officer ...

the increasing attraction of the business world—began to weaken Clausen’s commitment to his radio work and the communist cause. ...

prisoner of war in 1945, he underwent intense interrogation by Brit- ish intelligence because of his long-standing ties to the I ...

pionage activity with ever greater vigor and ingenuity. His was ar- rested by West German authorities on 23 August 1988—the resu ...

their exploit served as a model for many similar missions during World War II. COUNTERMAN. In West German counterintelligence, a ...

exander Dahms was a law student in Prague when recruited in 1963 near Bratislava. Although the Foreign Office of the Federal Rep ...

DASCH, GEORGE. See PASTORIUS. DE MAIZIÈRE, LOTHAR (1940– ). A prominent East German politician obliged to resign because of an a ...

erations of its kind already functioning at the outbreak of World War I. See also POKORNY, HERMANN. DECKNAME. A Deckname, or cov ...

communist regime by the selective scheduling of concerts and the avoidance of critical political forums. In November 1977, Dehm ...

sponded positively to his Soviet handler and was later given the code name max by the Abwehr. In December 1941, pretending to be ...

chemistry with distinction from the University of Vienna at the age of With a serious interest in philosophy and psychology as ...

a passing youthful indiscretion, especially given the large number of left-wing students at the time. Deutsch’s first recruit wa ...

November 1942 proved fatal. He died en route when his Soviet ship, the Donbass, came under German submarine attack in the North ...

senior advisory position with the police section by the Social Demo- cratic minister Carl Severing and charged with combating bo ...