Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

significant was the wave of deep mistrust felt by both existing and prospective BND agents in Eastern Europe. Despite the gross ...

Wachregiment was named for the founder of the Soviet Cheka. The genesis of this unit, however, can be traced to the early years ...

indicated in a coded telephone exchange with a fellow signals of- ficer in Berlin that “something terrible” had happened and tha ...

officer. Membership in right-wing political organizations provided further cover. Unmasked in 1990 by Frank Weigel, a defector f ...

Austrian experts two years later as part of the radio surveillance group within the Reichssicherheitshauptamt. He died on 11 No- ...

pediment, MIB head Josef Clannern von Engelshofen considered such “honorableness” the mark of an excellent agent, while Austrian ...

the Hungarian regent, Miklós Horthy, in Operation panzerfaust. Foelkersam was killed in action near Hohensalza (now Inowro- claw ...

M-Apparatus of the KPD and the courier section of the Comintern. After duty in the Spanish Civil War, Fomferra returned to Mosco ...

(Prisoner of War: Lived Experiences), appeared several months later. FORSCHUNGSAMT. The chief agency conducting communica- tions ...

FORSCHUNGSSTELLE. A World War II intelligence unit designed to monitor transatlantic telephone communication, the Forschun- gsst ...

for Sport and Technology) for the next 12 years. He died in Berlin on 23 October 1992. FREDERICK THE GREAT (1712–1786). The firs ...

went bankrupt, Frederik began a new venture—Verlag Politisches Archiv—based in Landshut. Especially noteworthy was his 1971 ac- ...

Possessing no intelligence collection agency of its own, the FHO had to depend on numerous sources, including the Abwehr, the Re ...

in North Rhine-Westphalia, he was in a prime position to report on the NPD’s activities in this populous region. Yet because of ...

should he decide to defect to Czechoslovakia—Frenzel delivered high-quality information related to the defense plans of both the ...

went awry, realizing that Reichssicherheitshauptamt chief Ernst Kaltenbrunner was about to discover his involvement, he commit- ...

the Central Powers. The mission proved a failure after Frobenius declared himself a German officer to Italian authorities. Consi ...

Rüsselsheim (Hesse) on 29 December 1911, the son of a Quaker min- ister. As a student of physics at the University of Leipzig in ...

In June 1946, at the conclusion of the Manhattan Project, Fuchs returned to England, eventually becoming head of the theoretical ...

(FRG), Reiner Fülle (code name Klaus) worked as a deputy admin- istrator at the Nuclear Research Center in Karlsruhe. The defect ...