Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

Germany (FRG). In October 1976, however, Garau divulged infor- mation to authorities in West Berlin and became an agent for the ...

she remained strongly committed to her espionage career. After the GDR’s collapse, she was arrested, having been exposed by a fo ...

Republik—became more commonly known as the Gauck-Behörde (or Gauck Agency). Despite considerable controversy surround- ing the o ...

many, like Krichbaum, found new positions in the Federal Republic of Germany. GEHEIME KABINETS-KANZLEI. The most accomplished an ...

Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND; Federal Intelligence Service), Reinhard Gehlen was born in Erfurt on 3 April 1902, the son of midd ...

Germans in 1942, to form an anticommunist liberation army, and re- cruitment among frontline Soviet units proved successful, Hit ...

sent to Washington, D.C., for further questioning over the objections of Boker and his superior, Edwin Sibert, the head of army ...

president, the structure of his organization remained fundamentally intact. Moreover, with few oversight mechanisms in place and ...

BND officer should never write memoirs, Gehlen’s Der Dienst (The Service) appeared in 1971, provoking controversy on both sides ...

Manfred Gerlach had been a returnee to the German Democratic Republic (GDR) two years earlier. A specialist in the manufacture o ...

organizer. In 1935, Gerstein was arrested, held for several weeks, and expelled from the party. Uncertain about the future, he b ...

against Adolf Hitler and was immediately arrested in the Berlin Bendlerblock. Skillfully playing the role of a naive, apolitical ...

protect the “socialist human community.” This new type of informer supplemented the body of well-established Inoffizielle Mitarb ...

of agents was likewise minimally staffed and in the early years of the Nazi regime was used primarily to eliminate political opp ...

applying for a position with the OG, Geyer (code name trell) worked initially in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as an inve ...

During the summer of 1944, the Reichssicherheitshauptamt pro- posed that he work abroad, specifically in the United States, unde ...

a German Spy in America)—appeared in 1957 and included the claim that information about the atomic bomb project had been acquire ...

in Zurich. As a vice consul in the German consulate (code names dr. berndt, dr. schlich, and gustav), Gisevius attempted to esta ...

GLIENICKER BRIDGE. The site of three major East-West spy ex- changes during the Cold War, the Glienicker Bridge connects Pots- d ...

GLOBKE, HANS (1898–1973). The object of a major disinformation campaign by the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), Hans Glob ...