Bundestag in 1965, he became a member of the legislative leadership
in 1970 and of the European Parliament in 1971. Throughout this
period, he met regularly with his HVA handlers, and by 1969, HVA
chief Markus Wolf was personally directing matters, even writing
the draft of a speech delivered by Borm to the Bundestag in October
of that year. According to Wolf, the relationship with Borm func-
tioned on so many levels that “we could exert influence on the party,
even if on a modest scale.” Despite its small size, the FDP was a piv-
otal coalition partner and played a major role in defining a new policy
of cooperation between the two Germanys. As the grand seigneur of
the party, Borm, deeply sympathetic to the GDR, consistently took
positions critical of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and sup-
ported the West German peace movement. He also hired the GDR-
trained spy Johanna Olbrich (alias Sonja Lüneburg) as a secretary
in 1969 and recommended her to other leading FDP members.
In 1982, when the FDP abandoned the Sozialdemokratische Partei
Deutschlands and resumed its earlier partnership with the Christlich-
Demokratische Union, Borm resigned and organized his own splinter
party, thereby causing the HVA to lose interest in him. The recipi-
ent of several prestigious West German awards, he also received an
honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig in 1985. He died
in Bonn on 2 September 1987.BOS, HANS-WALTER (1950– ). A petty officer of the Verwaltung
Aufklärung (VA) who worked as a double agent for Western intel-
ligence, Hans-Walter Bos served initially in the National People’s
Army (NVA). In October 1980, after completing a training course,
he was assigned to Division VI of the VA and sent to the military
attaché of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in Bern, Swit-
zerland, as an instructor and driver. When Bos was later arrested for
shoplifting, Swiss intelligence convinced him to serve as a double
agent and supply information regarding VA organization and op-
erations in the country. The Ministerium für Staatssicherheit
soon confirmed a substantial increase in Swiss surveillance of East
German personnel stationed in Zurich, Geneva, and Bern, without
discovering its origins.
Because of his recall to the German Democratic Republic in 1982,
Swiss intelligence engaged the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND),
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