SATTLER, JAMES F. An American foreign policy consultant with
ties to the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, James F. Sattler was
recruited in 1967 and given intensive training in codes, micropho-
tography, and clandestine drops. According to his later testimony,
information and documents that he received from the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization and from individuals and government agencies
in the Federal Republic of Germany, the United States, Great Britain,
Canada, and France were transmitted to East Berlin, for which he
received approximately $15,000.
Beginning in 1972, Sattler held a part-time position with the non-
governmental Atlantic Council of the United States. Four years later,
after applying unsuccessfully for a post as a minority staff consultant
with the International Relations Committee of the U.S. House of
Representatives, he learned that his denial was the result of a Federal
Bureau of Investigation report concerning his connections to officials
in Eastern Europe. To avoid criminal charges, Sattler filed a foreign
agent’s registration statement with the U.S. Department of Justice.
In that statement, he described his past activities, including the in-
structions he received during his last visit to the German Democratic
Republic in November 1975. He was to obtain a position with access
to classified information and return clandestinely to East Berlin to be
debriefed. Sattler’s sudden disappearance after making this admis-
sion was never explained.
SCHALCK-GOLODKOWSKI, ALEXANDER (1932– ). A colonel
in the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS) who developed a
vast shadowy financial empire to keep the German Democratic Re-
public (GDR) solvent, Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski was born in
Berlin on 3 July 1932, the son of stateless Russian parents who was
later adopted by a German couple. Trained initially as a precision
engineer, he also studied economics and joined the Sozialistische
Einheitspartei Deutschlands (SED) in 1955. Outwardly, he occupied
the position of state secretary in the Ministry for Inter-German and
Foreign Trade. In reality, however, Schalck-Golodkowski was one of
the camouflaged Offiziere im besonderen Einsatz (OibE) and a 1970
graduate of the Juristische Hochschule des MfS (his coauthored
doctoral dissertation with Heinz Volpert was entitled “Combating
Imperialist Harassment in the Field of Foreign Trade”).
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