energy agency and not the Ministerium fur Staatssicherheit. In
1978, his value to the VA was further enhanced by his elevation to
the Hamburg city parliament as a specialist in energy and environ-
mental policy.
In September 1990—approximately six months after the last meet-
ing with his case officer in Rostock—Löffler was placed in custody
because of “credible” evidence from an unnamed source in the for-
mer German Democratic Republic. The city parliament revoked his
immunity, and his home was thoroughly searched. Shortly before
the trial was to begin in August 1991, Löffler fled to Austria, despite
having posted bail of 50,000 DM. Three years later, German officials
arrested him at the Austrian border, and he was sentenced to two
and a half years imprisonment. In 1995, he resumed his residence in
Austria.LORENZEN, URSEL. A secretary at the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels and an agent for
the Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (HVA), Ursel Lorenzen was
recruited in 1968 by one of the Romeo spies, Dieter Will. Her posi-
tion as the personal assistant to a top-ranking British envoy, Terence
Moran, gave her access to highly classified information, including
the procedures involved in NATO’s crisis management assessments.
Warned by the HVA of her impending arrest by the Bundesamt für
Verfassungsschutz, she left Brussels for East Berlin on 5 March
- At a later press conference, she stressed that her defection had
been motivated by reasons of conscience. In 1989, Lorenzen was the
subject of a sentimentalized three-part series produced for East Ger-
man television.
LOTZ, WOLFGANG (1921–1993). An important spy in Egypt work-
ing for Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany, Wolfgang Lotz
was born in Mannheim on 6 January 1921, the son of a Jewish actress
and a non-Jewish theater manager. Following their divorce and Ad-
olf Hitler’s accession to power, his mother took Lotz to Palestine in
1933, where (changing his name to Ze’ev Gur-Aryeh) he became an
expert equestrian and horse trainer as well as a guard for the Haganah.
During World War II, given his fluency in German, English, Hebrew,
and Arabic, Lotz proved to be a valuable interrogator of German
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