years later involving East German agent Ule Lammert enabled his
return to the Federal Republic of Germany. In his memoirs, Rein-
hard Gehlen expressed special praise for Haase’s “intrepid work”
and “exemplary courage during his trial.”HALL, JAMES W., III (1957– ). An American military intelligence
officer found guilty of spying for the German Democratic Republic
(GDR) and the Soviet Union, James W. Hall III joined the U.S. Army
in September 1976 and spent four years at Fort Devens, Massachu-
setts, before his assignment to the Federal Republic of Germany
as a communications analyst. In late 1982, while stationed at the
Teufelsberg signals intercept station in West Berlin, he concluded an
agreement with the Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (HVA). Given
the code name paul, he became one of the most well-compensated
spies of the period, receiving an estimated $100,000 during the next
six years for the high-level information he delivered. Hall’s interme-
diary was an affable civilian mechanic of Turkish citizenship at the
facility, Huseyin Yildirim (nicknamed “Meister’), who had initially
spotted Hall as a potential recruit.
After returning briefly to the United States in 1985 for further
training, Hall was assigned to the military intelligence battalion of the
Fifth Army Corps in Frankfurt am Main and eventually promoted to
head of electronic warfare and signals intelligence operations. Klaus
Eichner, the HVA officer who evaluated Hall’s information, termed
it a “gold mine.” The material included the 4,000-page National Si-
gint (Signals Intelligence) Requirements List, a report code-named
Canopy Wing detailing the electronic measures in the event of full-
scale warfare with the Eastern bloc, and classified material regarding
the Strategic Defense Initiative program. The HVA cautioned Hall at
one point to slow down his activity lest he arouse suspicion. Even af-
ter his return to the United States in July 1987 to undergo training as
a warrant officer and to head a new signals intelligence project at Fort
Stewart, Georgia, he continued to deliver information to the GDR.
Through an East German defector code-named hagen, Hall be-
came the object of an investigation and, in December 1988, was lured
into a meeting with an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
posing as a Soviet operative. Hall subsequently pleaded guilty in a
military court in Washington, D.C., maintaining that his motivation
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