Historical Dictionary of German Intelligence

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out the GDR to prevent the destruction of documents ordered by Op-
eration reisswolf. On 15 January 1990, the largest demonstration
occurred at the East Berlin headquarters, as several thousand pro-
testers stormed the complex and demanded the right to inspect their
files, thus adding their voices to the effort that later culminated in the
Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdien-
stes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. The
dissolution of the security apparatus was officially completed with
the German Unification Treaty of 3 October 1990. See also BERLIN-
HOHENSCHÖNHAUSEN; JURISTISCHE HOCHSCHULE DES
MfS; OFFIZIERE IM BESONDEREN EINSATZ; SPORTVEREINI-
GUNG DYNAMO.

MIXED CLAIMS COMMISSION. A joint U.S. and German interwar
arbitration panel, the Mixed Claims Commission was established
according to a treaty signed in Berlin on 10 August 1922. Whereas
American citizens and firms sought compensation for damages in-
curred during World War I, the German government was anxious to
unfreeze assets that had been earlier impounded. Before its disband-
ment in 1939, the commission dealt with 20,433 claims, notably in-
volving the sinking of the Lusitania and the explosion at Black Tom
Island. Although the commission functioned remarkably well in its
early period, Nazi intransigence over claims of sabotage during the
period of U.S. neutrality led to bitter acrimony in the end. See also
DILGER, ANTON; LEVERKUEHN, PAUL.


MOITZHEIM, JOACHIM. A double agent working for the Haupt-
verwaltung Aufklärung (HVA), Julius Moitzheim was a former
student of the Jesuits, who, as a young soldier in World War II, was
taken prisoner by the Soviet army. Later recruited by the HVA and
given the code name wieland, he began working in the Cologne
area in 1979. His attempt to recruit a member of the Bundesamt
für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) misfired, and, under the threat of
imprisonment, he was engaged as a Counterman of the BfV by
Hansjoachim Tiedge and Klaus Kuron on 29 February 1980,
code-named keil. Retaining his loyalty to the HVA, he reported his
recruitment to his East German superiors and thus became a double
agent. During the following years, the BfV supplied him with a


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