carefully scripted broadcasts by a fictitious resistance fighter named
“Hagedorn” were beamed to the local population, emphasizing the
hopelessness of the military situation and encouraging the removal
of Nazi officials. These radio addresses further sought to dissuade
from the construction of a much-feared Alpine redoubt. When they
ceased on 27 April, Hagedorn announced the occupation of the radio
station by American forces and gave the signal for a general insur-
rection. One measure of the operation’s success was that no Ger-
mans detected the American provenance of the broadcasts. See also
SOLDATENSENDER CALAIS.CARNEY, JEFFREY M. (1963– ). A military intelligence special-
ist who spied extensively for the Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung
(HVA), Jeffrey M. Carney was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and joined
the U.S. Air Force in 1980. Two years later, he was posted to Tem-
pelhof Airport in West Berlin, assigned to an electronic security
group. Recruited in 1983 by the HVA and given the code name Kid,
he began copying high-level material, including intercepted Warsaw
Pact communications. Despite a transfer in 1984 to Goodfellow Air
Force Base in Texas, his espionage work continued (more than 100
classified documents were eventually transmitted). In September
1985, a combination of factors—his disillusionment with the air
force, his fear of detection, and his homosexuality—prompted him
to defect to the German Democratic Republic (GDR) via the East
German embassy in Mexico City.
Settling in East Berlin, Carney had the task of intercepting and
translating telephone communications of U.S. military commanders
and embassy officials stationed in Germany. Not only did he receive
a GDR military award for his efforts, but in 1988 he was granted citi-
zenship under the name Jens Karney, allegedly born in Dessau. After
the fall of the Berlin Wall, Carney’s identity reached U.S. authorities
through a former officer of the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit. On
21 April 1991, he was taken captive at his home in Berlin-Friedrichs-
hain by agents of the Air Force Office of Special Investigation and
eventually pleaded guilty to charges of espionage, conspiracy, and de-
sertion. Although the military tribunal stipulated a 38-year sentence,
he was released from the maximum-security prison at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kansas, in 2002. Carney’s ardent wish to resume his life in
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