Heinz, who accused Kolb of having kidnapped him, and by the Mi-
nisterium für Staatssicherheit, which concluded in 1956 that he
was merely being sounded out.
Even though the bizarre disappearance of Otto John several
months earlier overshadowed this episode and Heinz reemerged
in West Berlin the following day, his career had come to an end.
Because of lingering suspicion that he might be a Soviet agent, the
U.S. Counterintelligence Corps kept him under observation for many
years. His assistant, Johannes Kirsch, became his immediate succes-
sor as head of the FWHD, which, after being renamed the Archiv für
Zeitgeschehen (Archives for Contemporary History), was officially
dissolved on 31 March 1956. Heinz died 12 years later outside Wies-
baden.HELD, STEPHEN. An activist with the Irish Republican Army (IRA)
who served as a courier to the Abwehr, Stephen Held was the son of
an Irish woman and adopted son of her German immigrant husband.
Calling himself a member of the IRA Army Council, Held arrived
unannounced on 20 April 1940 at the Hamburg apartment of Oskar
Karl Pfaus of the Abwehr. There he presented a military scheme for
the invasion of Northern Ireland dubbed Plan kathleen (German
documents use the name artus). It envisioned landing 50,000 troops
near Derry assisted by an IRA ground offensive from the south.
Although Abwehr officials dismissed the plan as “dilettantish,” they
assured Held that a German liaison officer would be dispatched very
soon. Held left Berlin three days later and returned to Ireland. He
later provided a safe house for Hermann Görtz at his residence
at Templeogue. On 22 May, however, a police raid resulted in the
discovery of Görtz’s parachute, transmitter, and 19 coded messages.
His explanation unpersuasive, Held was arrested early the following
morning. A five-year prison sentence was announced on 26 June.
HELLENBROICH, HERIBERT (1937– ). The first person to have
headed both the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) and the
Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Heribert Hellenbroich was born
in Cologne on 14 May 1937. Following his study of law and politi-
cal science, he joined the BfV in February 1966. Hellenbroich rose
to deputy director in 1981 and head two years later. A new appoint-
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