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ABC weapons, 38

Abschöpfungsquellen. See information sources

Academy Institute for Cybernetics and Information Processing, 138

Academy of Sciences, 162, 205

   Central Institute for Nuclear Research, 163, 306

   Institute for Applied Radioactivity, 300

   Institute for Radium Research and Nuclear Physics, 298

   MfS partnership with, 163

Aciera milling machine, 166

“Action Boxer,” 27

Adlershof, 205

AEG/Telefunken, 9, 16, 18, 82, 85, 87, 89, 92, 135

AFOSI. See U.S. Air Force, Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI)

Agent Gorbachev, 4, 8–19, 87, 117

   codename, origin of, 11–13

   death of, 19

   family, 14

   medals, 14

   motivation, 11

   productivity, 18

   semiconductor espionage, 18–19

agent(s)

   agent technology, five main components of, 186

   illegal, 35

   MfS communication with, 188

   motivation of, 87–9

     money vs. ideology, 88

   overrun agents, 275

   prosecution of, 19

   Scouts for Freedom, 88

agents, specific

   “Acker,” 37, 82

   “Ahrendt,” 83

   “Alfons,” 176

   “Alfred,” 82, 87, 89

   “Alvar,” 117

   “Angel,” 16

   “Bach,” 312

   “Bauer,” 82

   “Bill,” 86, 117

   “Birke,” 86

   “Burmeister,” 128

   “Charly,” 184

   “Dora,” 83, 120

   “Fellow,” 56

   “Filter,” 87, 93

   “Friese,” 83

   “Froebel,” 35

   “Gabi,” 56–7, 64

   “Gärtner,” 54

   “Georg,” 184

   “German,” 86

   “Günter,” 86–7, 91

   “Gustav,” 86, 90

   “Hannes,” 37

   “Hauser,” 56, 189

   “Hermann,” 131

agents, specific (cont.)

   “Herzog,” 42

   “Hilmar Kohl,” 91

   “Ilona,” 84

   “Irmgard Krüger,” 82

   “Jack,” 44

   “Joker,” 126

   “Jonny and Cornelia,” 239

   “Jürgen,” 87

   “Kid,” 4, 37, 94–102

   “Klaus,” 55, 248

   “Koren/Karen,” 35

   “Landgraf,” 131

   “Leo,” 120, 129

   “Litze,” 92

   “Messing,” 135

   “Nana,” 184

   “Natur,” 83

   “Norbert,” 138

   “Optik,” 37, 95, 111

   “Otto,” 87

   “Paul,” 4, 37, 106, 108

   “Petermann,” 82, 85

   “Pfeiffer,” 82

   “Protokoll,” 82

   “Rabe,” 117

   “Ramona,” 84

   “Reiner Bergmann,” 239

   “Reise,” 91

   “Revisor,” 249

     educational film about, 249

   “Richter,” 313

   “Ring,” 117

   “Rode,” 86

   “Roland,” 248

   “Saale,” 122

   “Schulze,” 82, 87, 88

   “Seemann,” 120

   “Sperber,” 56, 64

   “Stein,” 86

   “Sturm,” 117

   “Test,” 83

   “Tom,” 49

   “Topas,” 80

   “Traeger,” 33

   “Wagner,” 56

   “Weißkopf,” 90

   “Wolga,” 33

   “Zelter,” 83, 120, 126

   “Zentrum,” 117

Aktuelle Kamera, 120

Alexanderplatz, 100, 112

Alltransistor, 136

Alwardt, Peter, 82, 89

   See also agents, specific,“Alfred”

.

American Microscience Company, 131

Ames, Aldrich, 87, 199

Ammer. See cameras, Soviet F 21

Andrew, Christopher, 166

ANT, 93

APN, 147

ARD, 248

Arnold, Gerhard, 56, 86, 117, 119

   See also agents, specific, “Sturm”

.

atomic bomb. See nuclear weapons

Atwood, James, 76

Auerbach, Thomas, 175

Augsburg, 99

ballistics, 161

Bamford, James, 104

Bayer, 91

Bearden, Milt, 75–7, 80

Bearers of Secrets, 139

Beater, Bruno, 266, 268, 300

BEKO, ix, 234, 235

Belorussia, 146

Berg, Wolfgang, 262

Berlin, 20, 48

   Alexanderplatz, 161, 163

   Andrews Barracks, 103

   East Berlin, xiii, 8, 10–13, 16, 20, 41–3, 47, 61, 64, 66, 75–7, 91, 92, 97, 98, 100, 107, 112, 142, 159, 160, 163, 188, 189, 195, 240, 241, 245, 246, 248, 285, 296

     Karl-Marx Alley, 163

   Eberswalde Soviet airbase, 99

   Freienwalderstrasse, 142

   Friedrichshain, 100, 101

   Friedrichstadtpalast, 168

   Friedrichstrasse, 246

   Genslerstrasse, 142

   Grand Hotel, 246

   Grunewald forest, 96

   Hohenschönhausen, 142

   Lichtenberg, 143

   long-range radar, 99

   Marienfelde, 96–7

   Obersee, 142

   as spy capital, 37–8

   as spy city, 97

   spy tunnel, 20

   Technical University in, 83

   Tempelhof Airport, 99

   Unter den Linden, 246

   West Berlin, 157, 237

   Wilhelmshagen, 253

   Wühlheide, 267

Berlin Wall, xiv, 2, 5, 8, 19, 24, 35, 47, 74, 77, 87, 89, 103, 110, 114, 124, 128, 134, 150, 162, 182, 192, 215, 226, 228, 237, 240, 245, 253, 267, 270, 272, 281, 292, 315

   construction of, 147

Berliner Zeitung, 283

Berndt, Andreas, 87

Berning, Hans-Heinrich, 232

Bertag, Peter, 43

Betriebs-Berichterstattung. See company reporting

BfV. See FRG, Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution

Biermann, Wolfgang, 122, 125, 126, 128, 138, 243, 292

Bilke, Paul, 25–8

BKA (Bundeskriminalamt). See FRG, Federal Criminal Office

Blaschke, Kurt, 92–3. See also agents, specific, “Litze”

Blayer, Günter, 89

BND, 43, 55, 59, 62, 72, 135, 136, 185, 199, 215, 240, 273, 276

   Agent Broadcasting Service, 60, 61, 259

   agents revealed, 221

   Department 2, xi, 261

   Department III, telecommunications and radio surveillance unit, 260

   mobile observation groups, 264

   Object “Torfmoos,” 273

   Project “Stay-Behind,” 275

   radio communications, 258

   secret writing, 217

   technology and research department, 260

Bond, James, vii, 1, 2, 4, 32, 72, 145, 167, 169, 174, 177, 185, 190, 312

   Q, 145, 147, 150, 311

   SMERSH, 175

Bonn, 38

Bonn secretaries

   Gerda O., 189

Borge, Thomas, 172

Brandenburg Gate, 168

Brandt, Willy, 41

Brauner, Manfred, 290

British Ministry of Defense, 133, 312

Bruchhausen, Wener, 114

Bruno Leuschner nuclear power plant, 67

BStU, xiv, 77, 80, 113, 149, 175, 207, 235, 238, 301, 304–306, 317

Bulgaria

   support of Cuba, 167

Bundeswehr

   increase in signals intelligence, 261

Bush, George, 75

Butte, Klaus, 131

CAD/CAM, 92, 119, 138, 139

Cambridge Five, 87

cameras, 145, 155, 156, 167, 173

   bra camera, 237

   concealments, 156, 235–7

   GSK, 233, 234

   infrared camera, 155, 158

   JEL, 248

   “Jupiter,” 191

   “Mars,” 191

   Meise. See cameras, mikrat

   microdot, 185

   mikrat, 105, 146, 155, 182, 190, 192

     brother organs’ use of, 191

   Milox camera, 233

CAD/CAM (cont.)

   Minox camera, 158, 179, 182, 190, 192–4, 233, 236

   Pentacon, 248

   Polaroid camera, 249

   Praktika, 173, 248, 250

   “Rigel,” 191, 192

   Robot, 232, 234, 235

   rollover camera, 105

   Soviet F 21, 233, 235, 236

   Soviet Kedr, 245

   Soviet Nyrok, 245

   Super-8, 105

   Tessina, 232, 235, 239

   tropically safe cameras, 169

   “Uranus,” 191, 192

   “Venus,” 191, 192

   Yelka, 249

   Yeschvka, 248

“Canna Clay.” See Severin, Manfred

Canopy Wing, 106

Carl Zeiss Jena, 33, 119, 122, 124, 126, 128, 135, 163, 169, 197, 225, 309

   pen camera lens, 192

   spy cameras, 191

Carney, Jeffrey, 37, 94–102, 111

   See also agents, specific, “Kid”

.

   Air Force language school, 97

   a.k.a. Karney, Jens, 100

   capture of, 101

   case officer betrayal of, 100–101

   code-named “Kid,” 98

   confession of, 101

   in Cuba, 99–100

   defection of, 99–100

   at Goodfellow Air Force Base, 98

   homosexuality, 98–100

   initial material given to MfS, 98

   kidnapping of, 94

   life after prison, 101

   luxury apartment in GDR, 100

   in Marzahn, 100

   MfS mistrust of, 100

   new identity, 100

   polygraph test, 99

   post-defection life, 100

   recruitment of, 98

   return to Germany, 101

Castro, Fidel, 99

   CIA thallium poisoning plot, 177

CDC, 118

Central Intelligence Agency. See CIA

chekist instrument, observation as, 228

Chelaplex, 205

chemical tracking substances, 297–8

   BRD use of, 297

   eosin, 297

   FBI use of, 299

   fluorescin, 297

   fuchsin, 297

   hydrazine sulfate, 311, 313

   oxin, 298

   rhodamine B, 297

   silver nitrate, 297

chemical weapons, 36

China

   espionage by, 2, 9

   as target of GDR espionage, 38

CIA, xiii, xiv, 3, 4, 9, 11, 20, 35, 46, 48, 52, 55, 68, 71, 74, 87, 89, 90, 94, 95, 107, 108, 115, 124, 129, 135–7, 161, 170, 177, 199, 201, 203, 215, 222–4, 277

   acquisition of MfS files, 77

     “red folders,” 76

     public awareness, 78

     wiretap orders, 76

   agent communication, 278–80

   agents revealed, 221

   criticism of BRD counterintelligence, 115

   Directorate for Science and Technology, 145

   in Indonesia, 221

   LSD experiments, 314

   Office of Technical Service (OTS), 145

   radioactive tracking, 296

   secret writing, 201–203, 217, 224

   special forces, 176

   System “Pyramid,” 278

Citizen’s Movement, xiv

“Cloud.” See Technical Operations Sector, Project “Cloud"

Coburger, Karli, 228

CoCom. See Coordinating Committee for East-West Trade

codes

   one-time pad method, 194

commercial coordination. See KoKo

Committee for State Security. See KGB

Communist International (Comintern), 242

   Communist International Training School, 146

company reporting, 23

computer industry

   western, as target of MfS, 116

computer technology

   East-bloc smuggling of, 115

computer-assisted design/computer-assisted manufacture. See CAD/CAM

contact people, 84

Coordinating Apparatus, 256–8

Coordinating Committee for East-West Trade, 23, 114, 137

counterculture, 244

Criminal Traces and Police Dogs, 294

Cuba, 99–100, 165, 166–71

   cooperation with Bulgaria, 170

   cooperation with GDR, 217, 278–80

   document forgery, 168–9

   electronics industry, 170

   General Directorate for Technology (GDT), 167, 168

   Havana Sea Wall, 168

   Hotel Riviera, 168

   information provided to GDR, 170

   intelligence, western understimate of, 170

   internal security, 171

   Ministry of the Interior, 151, 168, 169, 278

   passport forgery, 169

   refugee spies, 171

   retro-reflection foils, 169

   signals intelligence

     Operation “Royal Palm,” 278–80

   Tropicana, 168

cybernetics, 163

Cyron, Peter Oswald, 79, 86. See also agents, specific, “Rode”

Czechoslovakia, 215

   support of Cuba, 167

   use of scent differentiation, 291

Data Production Modules (DPM), 131

dead drops, 104, 187, 239–40

   dead letter boxes, 187, 188, 204, 237, 239, 285

   dead letter drops, 240

DEC, 85, 87, 119, 136, 138

   computers, GDR cloning of, 119–21

   microchip graffiti message, 121

   PDP 11/44, xiv, 120

   VAX, 83

   VAX 11/750, xiv, 139

   VAX 11/780, xiv, 119, 120, 139

   VAX 750, 85, 138

   VAX 780, 86–7, 138

   VAX 782, 86, 136

Defense AG, 83

Defense Intelligence Agency. See DIA

Department of Defense. See United States, DoD

Department XV. See HV A

Der Bundesbeauftragter für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen DDR. See BStU

Derda, W., 286, 289

DIA, 111, 161

Dialectics without Dogma, 243

Diebold, 118

   European research program, 118

Digital Equipment Corporation. See DEC

DNA, 286

Dobbertin, Rolf, 56. See also agents, specific, “Sperber”

dogs

   German shepherd, 282

   guard dogs, 283

   malinois shepherd, 282

dogs (cont.)

   scent tracking dogs, 283–5

   sensitivity of sense of smell, 282

Dölling, Peter, 83, 120. See also agents, specific, “Dora”

Dörrenberg, Dirk, 77

DOS, 117, 119

Dresden Institute for Computers, 119, 124

Dresdner Bank, 34, 49

dual-use technology, 23

East Berlin. See Berlin, East Berlin

East German Communist Party. See SED

East German Data Processing and Business Machines Company, 118

East Research Institutes, 45

Eaton, 128–30

Ebert Foundation, 57

economic espionage, 39, 43

Eichner, Klaus, 103

electronic intelligence. See signals intelligence

electronic warfare, 37, 268

Elfinger, 143

Emde, Heiner, 101, 110

Engberding, Rainer, 80

Erfurt

   semiconductor factories in, 119

Erzgebirge, 150

European Union, 84

Fahey, John A., 241

false-flag operations, 11, 45, 88, 103

FBI, 3, 35, 36, 108, 146, 161

   crime lab, 161

   Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), 162

   uncovers Nazi spy ring, 255

Federal Bureau of Investigation. See FBI

Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the Former GDR. See BStU

Federal Criminal Office. See FRG, Federal Criminal Office

Federal Republic of Germany. See FRG

Feuerstein, Dieter, 48, 49, 82, 85, 89, 197. See also agents, specific, “Petermann”

Fiedler, Siegfried, 172, 176

Field Station Berlin. See NSA, Field Station Berlin, Teufelsberg

fingerprints, 292

   GDR automated fingerprint analysis program (AIDA), 162

Fischer, Benjamin, 254

Fischer, Peter. See Stiller, Werner

five-year plan, 39, 114

Fleming, Ian, 1, 145, 175, 244

Foreign Counterintelligence Activity (FCA), 107

Foreign Trade Company, 134

Foreign Trade Electronics Company, 122, 123, 135

Fort Leavenworth, 95–7, 103

Foucault, Michel, 226

Franke, Gerhard, 32

Frankfurt an der Oder

   semiconductor factories in, 119

Fraunhofer Institute, 128

Free Youth Movement, 157

Freienwalderstrasse, 143

Frenzel, Alfred, 190

FRG

   air force, 184

     printing office, 182

   army, 182

   Federal Criminal Office, xv, 136, 192, 195, 197, 201

     evidence collection, 179–82

     Staatsschutz, 107

   Federal Criminal Police, 212

   Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, 48, 63, 101, 136

     signals intelligence, 260

   Ministry of Defense, 184

   Ministry of the Interior, 44

   Radio Surveillance Service, 260

   as target of East Bloc technology espionage, 115

   use of tracing substances, 297

Friedman, William Frederick, 213

Friedrichstrasse, 8, 12, 15, 16, 27, 62, 63, 66, 98

front firms, 43, 47

Frucht, Adolf Henning, xiii

Fuchs, Jürgen, 243, 313

Fülle, Reiner, 55, 56

   See also agents, specific, “Klaus”

.

Gast, Gabriele, 68, 185, 190, 199–201, 210, 213, 223

   conviction, 201

   MfS “engagement party” for, 200

GDR

   authority of the plan, 159

   Banner der Arbeit, 121

   Chemapol, 205

   Code of Criminal Procedure of the, 240

   collapse of, 158

   computer industry, 116

     hard disks, 131

     Object Coat of Arms, 130

   computer revolution

     failure of, 139

   crackdown on defectors, 160

   Criminal Technology Institute (KTI), 161, 162, 232

   customs, 161

   diplomatic recognition of, 159

   embassies, 90

   Foreign Political Intelligence Service, 3

   German People’s Police Criminal Technical Institute, 226

   illegal attempt at contact, 248

   internal security and surveillance, 309

     photographic methods, 225–52

   microelectronics

     cooperation with Japanese corporations, 116

     destruction of GDR Toshiba mask sets, 125

     importation of complete factory, 123

     lack of equipment, 123

     one-megabit chip, 115, 116, 125, 126

     Toshiba, 123–5

     256 K RAM, 122, 125

     ZBA, 1, 123

   microelectronics program, spending, 121

   Ministry of Interior, 255

   National People’s Army (NVA)

     Administration for Reconnaissance, 268

   obsession with computer technology, 140

   Palace of the Republic, 168

   people’s revolt, 191, 255

   Post Office and Telecommunications Ministry school, 150

   Secretary of State for Foreign Trade, 112

   semiconductor industry, 123

     crystal making machinery, 127

     ion implanter, 127, 128, 130

     ion implanter fiasco, 130

     plasma etchers, 127, 128

     Program “Maximum Integration,” 121

     wafer steppers, 127

   surveillance state, 226, 227

   technology transfer, as easy money, 127

   travel cadre, 37, 91, 132

   U.S. embassy, 33

   in Vienna, 42

   Wandlitz, 251

GDR Chemical Lab Company, 205

Gehlen Organization, 260

German Communist Party (KPD), 146

German Democratic Republic. See GDR

Germany. See also FRG; GDR

   unification of, xiii

Gerson, Günter, 86. See also agents, specific, “German”

Gersten, Frank, 184

Geruchskonserven. See odorology, smell conserves

Geruchspuren. See odorology, smell traces

Gietl, Gottfried, 131

Girod, Hans, 292

Gladitz, Dieter, 86

Glienicke Brücke, xiii, 37

Glocke, Karl-Heinz, 67

Gorbachev. See Agent Gorbachev

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 125

Gottfried, Harald, 54, 146

   See also agents, specific, “Gärtner”

.

Gregor, Fritz, 279

Grossmann, Werner, 46, 74, 76, 101, 263

Grote, Konrad, 35–6

   See also agents, specific, “Koren/Karen”

.

GRU, 136

Guantánamo. See U.S. Navy, in Guantánamo

Guillaume, Günter, 41, 184

Gutschmidt, Annemarie, 56. See also agents, specific, “Gabi”

Gysi, Gregor, 101

Haack, Peter, 176–7

Haedicke, Lothar, 136

Hall, James W., 37, 95–7, 104, 111.

   See also agents, specific, “Paul”

   arrest of, 109

   assignment to Fort Stewart G-2, 104

   attends warrant officer training school, 104

   betrayal of, 107–108

   child’s illness, 104

   code names (“Paul” and “Ronny”), 103

   confession, 108–109

   court martial, 109

   exposure of Project Trojan, 104

   family expenses, 102

   handlers revealed, 103

   information provided by, 107

   KGB handling of, 104

   marriage to Heidi, 102

   medal from GDR, 103

   moonlighting for KGB, 104

   NSA debrief of, 109

   payments for espionage, 107

   polygraph, 104

   preliminary file “Devil,” 103

   prison sentence, 95

   sting operation, 108

   surveillance of, 108

   use of clandestine containers, 105

   use of GDR safe houses, 103

   volume of classified material divulged, 105

Hall, James W., 36

Hallstein Doctrine, 35

Hamburg Electricity Works, 67

Hanssen, Robert, 110

Harz mountains

   Brocken Mountain, 269

   signals intelligence operations in, 269

Hauffe, Karl, 56. See also agents, specific, “Fellow”

Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung. See HVA

Havemann, Robert, 242–3

Hemmann, Rainer, 76

Hentschke, Herbert, Colonel, 147–50

Hering, Fritz, 189

Hermann, Harry, 28

Herrington, Stuart A., Colonel, 102, 108

High Temperature Reactor Building (HRB), 42

High-Tech Espionage, 114

Hillenmaier, Claus, 151

Hillig, Rolf, 125, 311

Hoechst, 91

Hohenschönhausen complex, 169, 225

Holle, Wolfgang. See also agents, specific, “Hilmar Kohl,” 91

Honecker, Erich, 32, 121, 122, 138, 263

   microelectronics obsession, 115, 116, 122, 125

honey traps, 244

Honeywell, 136

Hong Kong, 114

Hotel Adria, 10

Humboldt University, 107, 151, 177, 217, 228, 242, 300

Hungary

   use of scent differentiation, 291

HV A, 9, 15, 17, 18, 22, 24, 37, 38, 41, 43, 47, 54, 55, 66, 74, 76, 78, 83–93, 98, 100, 101, 113, 130, 131, 132, 155, 184, 186, 189, 191, 195, 196, 200, 204, 213, 250, 251, 263, 266, 270, 273–5, 277, 317

   agent card files, 74

     KGB possession of, 74, 76

   Department VI, 157

   Department VIII, 157

   Department IX, 250

   safe houses, 250–2

IBM, 33, 83, 85, 87, 114, 117, 118, 136, 138

   computers, GDR cloning of, 116–19

   European headquarters, 117

   IBM 41, 117

     GDR duplication of, 19, 116

   IBM Roece Inc., 47

   IBM Stuttgart, 56, 119

I.G. Farben, 30

IG Metal Labor Union, 92

IM, 10, 55, 65, 132, 139, 242

   See also agents, specific

.

   “Blitz,” 103, 106

   “Messing,” 120

   “Rhein,” 130

   “Rosemarie,” 55

   “Saale,” 120

   “Secretary,” 55

   security IMs, 84

   “Sturm,” 56

industrial espionage, 9

Industrial Representative GmbH, 46

information sources, 84

Institute for Radio Technology, 272

Intel, 119

inter-hotels, 246

   Newa, 245

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 35

Interport GmbH, 46, 47, 131

Intertechna GmbH, 46

Interver International Representative GmbH, 47

Intrac, 47

invisible ink, 15, 145, 156, 200

   See also secret writing

.

Israel

   espionage targeting U.S., 99

Jantsch, Karl, 307

Japan, 159

Jauck, Gerhard, 32, 35

Jehovah’s Witnesses, MfS persecution of, 225

Jork, Uli, 293

K computer 171–3

   DEC clone, 120

K-5, 3

Karl Marx City, 199

Karlshorst, 21, 24, 74, 77

Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center, 33, 55, 56

Karney, Jens. See Carney, Jeffrey

Kauther, Hans, 120.

   See also agents, specific, “Seemann”

Kempe, Volker, 138

   See also agents, specific, “Norbert”

.

   and “Medusa” software, 138

   worked for SWT, 138

KfS. See KGB

KGB, 1, 2, 3, 9, 11, 19, 21, 23, 24, 34, 48, 49, 56, 74, 76–8, 87, 89, 90, 93, 94, 97, 103, 104, 106–108, 110, 117, 136, 164, 168, 177, 199, 244

   and Cuba, 166

   Directorate T, 21, 37

   F 21 camera, 233

   handling of Hall, James W., 104

   Moscow school, 175

   radioactive tracking, 296, 297, 310

     metka, 297

   secret writing, 202

KGB (cont.)

   spy cameras, 192

   use of criminalistics, 226

Khokhlov, Nicholai

   MfS assassination of, 177

Kibolac, 42, 43

kidnapping, 20, 175

Kilfit, Heinz, 232

Kinkel, Klaus, 264, 273

Kleine, Alfred, 115, 134, 313

Klusac, Norbert, 273

Koch, Willy, 134

Koch, Wolfgang, 103

Kohl, Helmut, 115, 136, 262

   illegal campaign financing, 262

Köhler, Peter, 82, 88, 126

   See also agents, specific, “Schulze”

.

KoKo, 46, 47, 113, 121, 122, 129, 130, 132

   Combine for Microelectronics, 127

   trade division, 127

Koppe, Johannes, 67

Kransberg Castle, 260

Kratsch, Günter, 70

Kraus, Gotthold, 21

Kriminalistik, 297

Krohe, Richard, 37. See also agents, specific, “Acker”

Kroß, Herbert, 59

KTI. See GDR, Criminal Technology Institute (KTI)

Kummer, Rolf, 203

Kupfer, Dietrich, 120, 135

Kuron, Klaus, 11, 68, 196, 251

Lang, Horst, 87, 93

   See also agents, specific, “Filter”

.

laser technology, 33, 55, 135

le Carré, John, 2, 38

Lehe, Achim, 35

Lehman, Ralph Dieter, 98

Lehmann, Erich, 14

Leinfelder, Dr. Gabriele. See Gast, Gabriele

Leningrad State University, 311

Leonhard F, 133

Leopard 1 main battle tank, vii, 18, 19

Leopard 2 main battle tank, xi, 34

Leuteritz, Franz, 300–301

Leybold, 91, 127

   sales to Iraq, 127

   sales to Lybia, 127

Leybold-Heraus. See Leybold

Limbach, Paul, 101, 110

Litvinenko, Alexander, 314

Livingston, Robert Gerald, 76

Llewelyn, Desmond, 150

Lucona, 42

Ludwig, Manfred, 309

Lummer, Heinrich, 245

Lüneburg, Sonja, 180

Lustig, Monica, 245

Lutze, Lothar, 41, 184

   See also agents, specific, “Charly”

.

Lutze, Renate, 41, 185. See also agents, specific, “Nana”

Lylac, 42

Magdelena Street, 42

Männchen, Horst, 111, 154, 253–4, 268, 270, 272, 278–80

   dismissed from MfS, 266

   joins HV A, 266

   joins MfS, 266

   reinstated to MfS, 266

Marconi, Guglielmo, 254

MARISAT satellite, 278

Marschall, Bernd, 291–2

Max Planck Institutes, 85

Mehnert, Klaus, 199

Meister, the, 102–103

   See also agents, specific, “Tom”

.

Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB), 33, 34, 48, 82, 84, 85, 196, 264–5

metka, 297

Mexico City, 99

MfS. See Ministry for State Security

MI, xiii, 77, 133

MICE model, 88

microdot process, 15, 190

Mielke, Erich, 3, 10, 14, 18, 38, 39, 55, 64, 68, 106, 121, 135, 147, 157, 172–4, 185, 278, 300, 309

migration agents, 24, 37, 54, 55, 67, 81, 86, 87, 90, 91, 185, 196

mikrat. See cameras, mikrat

Military Liaison Missions, 237, 240–2, 285

   confiscated cameras, 241

military technology, 38

Ministry for Chemistry, 40

Ministry for Economics, 49

Ministry for Electronics, 40, 116, 119, 120, 122, 130, 139

Ministry for Foreign Trade, 46, 120, 122

Ministry for Heavy Industry, 21

Ministry for Higher Education, 86

Ministry for Machine Building, 10, 11, 40

Ministry for Microelectronics, 122

Ministry for Post Telecommunications, 150

Ministry for Science and Technology, 28, 35, 36, 42, 56, 57, 267

Ministry for State Security, xiv, 1

   “Action World Stature,” 118

   agent card files, 78

     microfilming of, 78

   agent data sheets, 78

   agents, technical training of, 185

   agents for the future, 145

   archives, 8, 9, 47–8

     destruction of, 48, 74–5

   border control, 172

   brother organs, 148, 151, 215

   Bruno Beater School, 262

   code of ethics, 26, 58, 150, 157, 266

   codes, 194–5

   codes and ciphers department, 274

   cooperation with Cuba, 278–80

   counterintelligence, 203, 239–40

     “Eagle Flight” technique, 61

   crime lab, 161–2

   criminalistic photography, 227

   Department III, 16, 110, 267

   Department V, 24, 28, 32

   Department VIII, 213, 228, 266, 303, 308

   Department IX, 161, 228

   Department XVIII, 16, 17, 33, 121, 132, 134, 164

     electronic industry and, 117

   Department XX, 289

   Department 26

     and Vietnam, 165

   Department F, 255, 261, 267

     expansion of, 267

   Department K, 146

   Department of Investigations, 203

   Department S, 146

   dissidents, 242–4

     surveillance of, 239

   dogs, 283–5

   electronic intelligence. See signals intelligence

   embassies, surveillance of, 240

   emphasis on human intelligence, 254

   evaluation department, 17

   fingerprint collection, 152

   forged documents, 142

   Hohenschönhausen campus, 48, 145

   Hohenschönhausen prison, 95, 142

   hotel surveillance, 244–7

     Grand Hotel, 246–7

   HV A. See HV A

   Imbiss, 20

   income generated by, 134

   Institute for Technical Developments, 256, 270, 271

   Institute for Technical Research, 164

   instructors, 91–2

   internal security and surveillance, xiv, 3, 4, 74, 132–3, 138, 156, 158, 177, 213, 239, 309

     emergence of a security state, 160

     increase in, 160

     technology in, 147

   Konspiration, 147

   lack of concealment designers, 235

   Law School, 147, 151, 203, 228, 239, 290

   Managua outpost, 172

   microelectronics advice to Central Committee, 116

Ministry for State Security (cont.)

   Microelectronics Program, 116

   microelectronics unit, 112

   Minister’s Working Group/S, 173, 178

     active measures, 175

     Einsaztgruppen, similarity to, 175

     explosive technology, 174

     kidnapping, 175

     service area 2 (DB2), xi, 174

     Soviet training of, 175

     special weapons technology, 174

     training, 175–6

   Nicaragua

     photography lab, 173

     solidarity present, 173

     support of, 172

   Normannenstrasse complex, 20–2, 75, 143

   North Berlin campus, 203

   observation complex. See BEKO

   observation department, 229

   observation report, 228

   observation teams, 160

   observer groups, 239

   OibE, 152, 163, 164, 256

   Operation “Action Banner,” 160

   Operation “Bermuda,” 310

   Operation “Meadow,” 237

   “Operation Scorpion,” 176

   Operation II, 313

   operational (OV) file, 132

   operational person control (OPK) file, 132

   parabolic satellite dish, 280

   personnel selection criteria, 40

   physical security arrangements, 55

   poisoning of Wolfgang Welsch, 177

   Project “Access,” 274

   Project “Protection,” 274

   Project “West Investigations,” 273

   prostitutes, use of, 244–5

   radioactive tracking. See radioactive tracking

   recruiter, 91

   reparations, 134

   safe houses, 249–52

   scientific-technical evaluation working group, 25–31

   scouts for peace, 197

   searches

     educational film, 249

     photographic record, 247–8

   secret photography

     training in, 229

   secret writing, 194–5

   Sector for Scientific-Technical Intelligence (Aufklärung), 32

   secure communication of data, 179–97

   signals intelligence. See signals intelligence

   skinheads, observation of, 244

   smell. See odorology

   smuggling of VAX11/780, xiv, 120

   source protection, 28

   Soviet influence, 228

   spy handlers, 89–93

   surveillance vehicles, 229

   SWT. See SWT

   Technical Operations Sector. See Technical Operations Sector

   unit for chemical expertise, 203

   Vienna Residency, 90

   Wartin secret installation, 175

   X-rays, use of, 303

Ministry for the Interior

   Central Dog School, 282, 283, 286, 289

   Department for Innovations, 287

   school, 157

Ministry of Science, 35

Ministry of Trade, 35

Minox camera. See cameras, Minox

Mischnowski, Helga, 64

missiles, 38

   guided anti-ship missiles, 33

Mitrokhin, Vasili, 77

Mitsui. See Toshiba

Mittag, Günter, 120, 138

Montage-Design-Studio, 92

Mossad, 94

Müller, Gerhard, 87, 157, 160, 188, 189

Müller, Horst, 42, 43, 47, 121, 138

Müller, Richard “Megabucks,” 114, 136

Munich criminal police, 298

Murk, Renate, 214

Musalik, Frank, 85

Natho, Holger, 232

National Security Agency. See NSA

National SIGINT Requirements List (NSRL), 105–106

NATO, 38, 182, 184

Nauen, Cornelia, 84

   See also agents, specific, “Ramona”

.

Neiber, Lieutenant General, 110

Nendel, Karl, 122

Neues Deutschland, 120

Neumann, Willi, 24, 32, 40, 43, 82

New Germany, 122

New York Times, 80, 114, 297

Nicaragua, 165, 171–3

   document forgery, 172

   as East bloc espionage base, 172

   General Directorate for State Security, 172

     prison, 173

   Managua airport security, 172

   MfS-supplied surveillance systems, 172–3

   “Object H,” 173

   “Object M,” 172

   “Object R,” 173

   revolution, 172

Nolan, H. O., 213

Nötzold, Peter, 55

NSA, 9, 94–6, 99

   Allied communication publication, 104

   Field Station Berlin, Teufelsberg, 96–7, 102, 104, 110, 277

     British and French presence, 96

   GDR signals intelligence, 98

   intelligence community wish list, 105

   locations, 104

   Marienfelde, 96–7, 99, 110

   National SIGINT Requirements List (NSRL), 105–106

   as undisputed leader in electronic intelligence, 261

nuclear power, 33, 39, 42, 67

   GDR reactor, 163, 306

nuclear weapons, 21, 33, 38, 47, 56

Object 0030. See GDR, computer industry, Object Coat of Arms

OCOM Trade AG, 130

odorology, 285–92, 295

   application of, 292–4

   BRD application of, 295

   capture and storage of scents, 285–91

   capturing smell, 291

   collecting chair, 287

   Dutch application of, 295

   scent differentiation, 289–94, 312

   scent perfumes, 285

   smell conserves, 281, 286

   smell traces, 286

   use against dissidents, 293

Office for Atomic Research and Technology, 25

Office for National Security, 48

Office for Technology, 25

officers on a special mission (OibE). See Ministry for State Security, OibE

“Operation Exodus,” 46, 114, 140

Operation “Pipe,” 128

“Operation Registration,” 41, 184

“Operation II,” 133

Osram, 23

OTS. See Technical Operations Sector

Pape, Erich, Major, 8, 13

Paproth, Wilhelm, 86

Pellegrin, Yvon, 129

Pelton, Robert, 99

Pentacon, 163, 165, 233

   HFK, 234

   Praktica, 233

people-smugglers, 241–2

Phantom fighter aircraft, 39

Physical Society, 33, 53

plastic

   nylon, 42

   polyester, 39

   polyurethane, 29–31, 39

plutonium, 39

Pneudl, Karl-Heinz, 42, 43

Politburo. See SED, Central Committee

political-ideological diversion, 220

Pollard, Jonathan Jay, 99

Poole, Lynn, 299

Praeger, Gerhard, 86

Prague Spring, 38, 72, 158

Preuß, Gisela, 182

Preuß, Joachim, 182

Price, Derek de Solla, 148

Prinzipalov, Alexander, 76, 77

Productronica, 312

Project RYAN, 38

Project Trojan, 104

Proksch, Udo, 42

Putin, Vladimir, 48–50, 89

Puzzle Palace, The, 104

Q. See Bond, James, Q

Quick, 110, 264

R computer, 34–7, 115

radioactive isotopes

   availability of, 307

   barium, 296

   detectors, 306

   gold, 298

   poisoning with, 314

   polonium-210, 314

   production, 162

   scandium-46, 301, 303, 307, 309

   silver-110, 303

radioactive tracking, 145, 166, 217, 296–315

   BRD use of, 298

   British use of, 298

   of diplomats, 308–309

   of dissidents, 313–14

   FBI use of, 299

   money, 298, 299, 309

   needles, 307

   NYPD use of, 299

   safety, 315

     lack of MfS health concern, 298, 303, 308

     MfS personnel, 307

     tracked subjects, 307

   securing secrets, 309–310

   tire marking gun, 303, 308

Rau, Susanne, 245

Reagan, Ronald, 36, 46, 114, 140

Regenhardt, Helmut, 179–82, 196

Rehder, Hans. See Agent Gorbachev

Reif, Wolfgang, 221–3

   BND recruitment of, 222

   CIA recruitment of, 221

   CIA training in secret writing, 222

   MfS capture of, 222

   MfS suspicion of, 222

Reimann, Wolfgang, 164

RFT, 163

   Dresden, 162

Rier, Bernd, 239

Robotron, VEB Kombinat, 47, 87, 116, 119, 120, 126, 131, 133

   reverse engineering of computers, 117

Rodig, Lutz, 86

Rogalla, Jürgen, 48

Rohde & Schwarz, 259

Rolph, David, 76, 77

Romeo spies, 41, 57, 84, 244

Rompe, Robert, 23, 53, 55, 56

Ronai, Ernst, 298

Ronneberger, Gerhardt, 120, 122, 132, 134, 136

   memoirs, 122

   vehicular manslaughter, 122

Rösener, Klaus, 121, 131

Rosenholz files, 35, 50, 81, 85

   CIA return of, 80

   identification of agents, 81–5

   identification of targeted companies, 85–7

Rossendorf, 163

Rotsch, Manfred, 85

Round Table, 48

Rudolf Sacher Inc., 42

Rupp, Rainer, 80

Ruß, Thomas, 83

Russians Are Coming, The, 50

Sabisch, Christa, 311

Sacher, Rudolf, 42, 43

Samsung, 123

Sänger, G., 56

Schalck-Golodkowski, Alexander, 40, 46, 112, 113, 116, 120–3, 126, 129, 131, 132, 134, 251

Scheele, Werner, 130

Schlaff, Martin, 131

Schlobohm, Eckhard, 86, 91

Schmidt, Fredo, 294

Schmidt, Günter, ix, 147, 149, 150–2, 160, 162, 177

   in Cuba, 166, 168

   as head of Technical Operations Sector, 150

   medals and awards, 151

   promotion to major general, 151

   socialist ideals, 151–2

Schneeberg, 102

Schneider, Karl Heinz, 199

Schoab, Michael, 37. See also agents, specific, “Hannes”

Schock, Erich, 298

Scholz, Albert and Dietmar, 136

Schröder, Major, 65

Schürer, Siegfried, 128

Schütt, Harry, 115

Science, the Super Sleuth, 299

scientific-technical revolution, 22

secret writing, 156, 162, 171, 224

   BND prewritten letters, 222

   cerium process, 205–208

   compound method, 210

   contact principle, 200

   detection of, 202, 213–21

     automated mail processing, 218–21

     Nyom machine, 215–16

     Postal Search Office, 214–17

     radioactive methods, 217

   direct vs. transfer method, 200

   dry method, 202

   duplication of MfS recipes, 205–208

   Electrostatic Detection Apparatus (ESDA), 216

   as evidence against spies, 212

   MfS discovery of BND method, 217

   MfS electronic database, 205

   MfS evaluation of, 211–12

   MfS regulations covering, 211

   MfS shellac recipe, 210

   MfS trust of agents with, 211–12

   organic fluids, 202

   paper, chemically impregnated, 194

   pH of ink, 208

   phenolphthalein, 204

   preventing detection, 214

   recipes, 204–11

   roll method, 209

   secrecy of MfS recipes, 205

   sympathetic inks, 202

   technological alternatives, 223

   wet method, 201, 209

Sector for Science and Technology. See SWT

SED, 157, 225, 289

   Central Committee, 10, 115, 116, 122, 127

   Xth Party Congress, 115

   XIth Party Congress, 115, 138, 237

SEL, 85, 87

Semicon, 313

semiconductor industry, 19

Severin, Manfred, 107

   as courier for James W. Hall, 107

   exilftration of, 108

Sherwood, Henry, 118

Siemens, 47, 56, 83, 85–7, 90, 91, 119, 138, 139, 272

SIGINT. See signals intelligence

signals intelligence, 17, 105, 111, 184, 255–80

   See also GDR, National People’s Army (NVA), Administration for Reconnaissance; NSA

   access to western security databases, 274

signals intelligence (cont.)

   against foreign spy agencies, 273–6

   antiquated abilities, 258

   Biesenthal satellite facility, 278

   British Observation Services, 275

   Brocken Mountain, 269–70

   Bundeswehr, 261

   burst transmissions, 258

   Cuban operations, 265

   Czech listening post, 268

   Gosen, 257

   Hohen-Luckow, 257

   inferiority of GDR telecom industry, 271

   Lauf an der Pegnitz, 260

   merger with radio intelligence gathering, 257

   mobile technology, 258

   monitoring of BRD telephone signals, 271

   Operation “Royal Palm,” 278–80

   “Oprah material,” 265

   Program “Mineral,” 257

   Project “Charly,” 275

   Project “Pamjat,” 258

   Project “Saphir A/2,” 272

   Project “Swesda,” 258

   radio direction finding stations, 257

   radio surveillance stations, 257

   “Rubin” listening post, 273

   Soviet facility in Lourdes, Cuba, 166

   stationary technology, 257

     “granit,” 258

   Steering 1 station, 275

   Südlabor GmbH, 260

   support of espionage, 274

   tapping of BRD fiber-optic line, 272–3

   “Urian,” 270

   U.S. activity against allies, 105

   Vericrypt, deciphering of, 275

   in the West, 259–62

   western communication with agents, 256–7

   western intelligence officers, as targets, 264

   western politicians, as targets, 262–4

   western technological superiority, 258–9

   western underestimation of, 253

Silicon Valley, 42, 57, 114

Simonis, Wendelin, 131

SIRA, 85

   See System for Information, Research and Evaluation

.

smell. See odorology

Sorge, Richard, 89, 262

South Africa, 114

Soviet companies. See VEB

Soviet Union, xi, 2, 10, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 33, 34, 36–9, 46, 56, 59, 71, 77, 93, 98, 110, 114, 116, 117, 119, 120, 124, 135–7, 146, 165, 167, 175, 218, 234, 240, 254, 256, 277, 278, 285

   airborne troops school, 175

   as advisors to GDR, 187

   codes and ciphers group, 274

   Communist Party School, 147

   cooperation limited by military-strategic considerations, 116

   Cuba, support of, 166, 169, 278

   electronics industry, failure of, 114

   embassy in U.S., 110

   ESER, 117

   F 21 camera, 232

   foreign intelligence, 50

   GDR sharing of information with, 118

   GDR sharing of SIGINT, 275

   GDR trade interests, 115

   Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, 241

   high opinion of MfS special radio services, 265

   importation of VAX 782, 86, 136

   limiting of satellite country capabilities, 167

   microelectronics assistance, 123

   Nicaragua, support of, 171–3

   Project “Pamjat,” 258

   Project “Swesda,” 258

   Rjasan, 175

   Ryad-1 IBM clone, 117

   secret writing detection technology, 221

   trade with Leybold, 127

   use of scent differentiation, 291

Special Access Program, 102

spy bridge. See Glienicke Brücke

spy gear

   concealments, 154. See also Technical Operations Sector, Department SF

   containers, 105, 146, 155, 159, 179–84, 188–90

   See also Technical Operations Sector, Department SF

.

     X-ray safe, 161, 189

   radio transmitters, 155

   radios, 152

Stabi. See West Berlin library

Standard Electric Lorenz. See SEL

Stanford University, 36

Starfighter aircraft, 39

Stasi. See Ministry for State Security

Stasi File Authority, 90

Stasi Mosque, 269

Steger, Otfried, 116

Stern, 248

Stickel, Peter, 82. See also agents, specific, “Pfeiffer”

Stiller, Werner, 4, 15, 17, 33, 41, 43, 82, 119, 137, 217, 222, 259, 318

   absentia death sentence, 68

   agents exposed by, 67

   agents run by, 55–7

   a.k.a. Fischer, Peter, 52

   bona fides with BND, 61

   and case officer “Ritter,” 59

   communication with BND, 59–60

   courier, 68–9

   death threats, 71

   debriefing of, 65–6

   escape, 61–4

     last-minute change of plans, 62–3

   file name “Bristle,” 60

   file name “Jackal,” 67

   first marriage, 53

   fourth marriage, 71

   Goldman Sachs, 69, 71

     dismissal from, 71

   Horst Vogel’s opinion of, 70

   initial training and career, 54

   and Lehman brothers, 69, 71

   Markus Wolf’s opinion of, 70

   memoirs, 72–3, 189

   MfS reaction to defection of, 64–5

   MfS suspicions of, 60–1

   motivation, 71–2

   move to Hungary, 71

   move to U.S., 68

   parting shot at MfS, 62–3

   post-defection life, 71

   public return to Germany, 69

   real estate business in Leipzig, 71

   relationship with Helga Mischnowski, 64, 65

   safe house “Fortress,” 57, 59, 60

   second marriage, 53

   third marriage, 69, 71

   travels, 57

   Vienna residency, 57, 131

   at Washington University, St. Louis, 68

   wife’s reaction to defection, 65

Stöckert, Siegfried, 120, 129

Straub, Katherina, 84

   See also agents, specific, “Ilona”

.

Streubel, Christian, 37, 43, 54, 56

submarine propellers, 124

surveillance cameras, 225–52

   destruction of, 225

Sweeder, Ryan, 204, 208

SWT, 4, 20–50, 74, 84, 85, 114, 132, 272

   acquisition of military technology, 38–9

   basic research

     U.S. division, 92

   computer companies, targeting of, 87

   computer technology, 140

   Department V, 131

SWT (cont.)

   Department XIII, 32

     American operations, 33

   Department XIV, 32, 33

   Department XIV/2, 92

   Department XV, 32, 33, 48, 80

   Department for Capitalist Industrial Nations, 36

   Department for Rocket Science and Technology, 49

   economic impact, 29

   grading of scientific information, 29

   Microelectronics Program, 47

   one-megabit chip, 126

   recruiters, 92

   semiconductor industry, 39

     ion implanter, 40, 83, 130

   special acquisitions (SBO), 127, 130

   technology acquisition methods, 115

   Vienna residency, 131

   women, 84–5

   Working Group 1, 34–7, 49

   Working Group 3, 37, 92

   Working Group 4, 37

   Working Group 5, 37

   working groups, 34–7

System for Information, Research and Evaluation, 81

TBKs. See dead drops

Technical Operations Sector, 4, 135, 145, 169, 178, 203, 270

   agreement with Central Institute for Nuclear Research, 306

   Area E, 154

   Area G, 154

   brother organs, 164–5

   camera development, 233

   cooperation with civilian scientific institutions, 148

   cooperation with VEBs, 162–4

   and Cuba

     document forgery, 168–9

     information from, 170

     limiting of capabilities, 168

     payment to GDR, 169

     support of, 166–71

   Department AB, 152

   Department E, 147, 152, 155, 161, 188, 204, 213

     containers, 188–90

     passport forgery, 158

     radio channels, 158

     Section I (radios and electronics), 158

     Section II (containers and locks), 158

     Section III (documents), 158

     Section IV (cameras, secret writing, and marking material), 158

   Department F, 150, 152

   Department K, 150

   Department N, 156

   Department RZ, 152

   Department S, 150

   Department SF, 154

   Department ZB, 152

   Department 26, 2, 303

   Department 31, 3, 146, 152, 154

   Department 32, 3, 146, 152, 162, 300

   Department 33, 3, 146, 152, 154

   Department 34, 3, 152, 203, 300, 303, 308

   Department 35, 3, 152, 168

   Department 36, 3, 152

   domestic espionage, 155, 160

   forgery, 145, 154, 155, 157, 168

     passports and retro-reflection foils, 169

     U.S. visas, 170

   Group C, 152

   Institute for Technical Analysis, 152

   long-term planning, 148, 152, 158, 159

   mail opening department, 213–21

   and Nicaragua, 171–3

   Pentacon and, 163

   polygraphy, 154, 168

   Postal Search Office, 214–17

   Project “Cloud,” 296, 309, 310

   radio counterintelligence, 156

   scent research, 285

   secret writing, 202–204

   support of domestic espionage, 147

   Technical Research Unit, 227

   technicians, 154, 157–61

   and Vietnam, 165–6

   voice recognition, 270

   wiretaps, 156

Telefunken, 9, 82, 85

Tempelhof Airport, 101

Teske, Werner, 43–6

Teufelsberg. See NSA, Field Station Berlin, Teufelsberg

Texas Instruments, 82, 85, 87, 119, 126, 136

TH-Aachen, 85

thallium poisoning, 176–7

TH-Berlin, 85

Third Party Conference, 25

Thräne, Walter, 15, 16, 26–8

   defection of, 26

Thüringen, 131

Tiedge, Hans-Joachim, 68, 71, 99, 250–1

   defection of, 275

Tornado fighter, 34

torpedoes, 18, 89

Toshiba, 123, 138

   destruction of GDR mask sets, 125

   end of relationship with GDR, 124–5

   Soviet Union, sale of milling technology to, 124

TOXDAT database, 177

Trabant, 174

trade embargo, 23, 46, 114, 116, 122, 126, 159

Tryhorn, F. G., 298

Tuck, Jay, 114, 137

Turkey

   American radar in, 18

   intelligence, 103

Tyroller, Arthur, 27, 28

Ulbricht, Walter, 32, 117, 148, 241

   and plastic couch, 31

Unified System of Electronic Computing Technology (ESER). See Soviet Union, ESER

United Kingdom

   Forensic Science Laboratory at Harrogate, 298

United States

   Department of Energy, 105

   DoD, 36, 99

   military intelligence, 111

   State Department, 105

University of Southern California, 36

University of Vienna, 298

unofficial staff member. See IM

U.S. Air Force, 96, 111

   Electronic Security Command, 96

   intelligence, 111

   Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), 95, 101

   operation plans in West Germany, 98

   Security Service, 96

   service school, 99

   6912th Electronic Security Group, 96, 99, 100

     handbook, 98

U.S. Army, 37, 96, 111, 118

   Counterintelligence Corps, 10, 107, 260

   department for ciphers and codes, 213

   Department for Ciphers at Riverbank Laboratories, 213

   Fifth Corps

     302nd Military Intelligence Battalion, 104

   Intelligence and Security Command, 111

U.S. Marine Corps, 111

U.S. Military Liaison Mission, 241

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 201

U.S. Navy, 111

   in Guantánamo, 279

U.S. Signals Intelligence directives, 99

Varian, 128, 129

VEB, 162

VEB Combine Pentacon. See Pentacon

VEB for Radio and Television. See RFT

Vericrypt, 274

Viehmann, Adolf, 150

Vienna, 47

   high-tech suburb, 131

Vietnam, North, 151, 165–6, 215

   listening devices provided to, 165

   security services, 166

   technical services department (H 18), xv, 165

Vogel, Horst, 32, 40–1, 46, 58, 62, 74–5, 115, 128

von Raussendorff, Klaus, 88

Vreisleben, Detlev, 234

Vulcan Affair, 21

Walker, John, 87, 99, 110, 111

Wall Street Journal, 114

Warnig, Mathias, 50

Warsaw Pact, 32, 124, 133, 275, 277

Washington Post, The, 74, 80

Washington University, St. Louis, 51

“Weapon.” See Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center

weapons of mass destruction, 105

Webster, William, 75

Wehrmacht, 21, 260

Weiberg, Heinrich, 20–22, 24, 32, 38, 40, 54

Weigelt, Frank, 48, 80

Wein, Rudi, 43

Weizenbaum, Heinz, 118

Weizenbaum, Joseph, 118

Welsch, Wolfgang, 177

   thallium poisoning of, 176–7

Wenzel, Arthur, 114, 134, 135

   arrest of, 112

   Arthur the Angel, 122

   suicide of, 112

West Berlin. See Berlin, West Berlin

West Berlin library, 82

West Germany. See FRG

White House, 105

Wieck, Hans-Georg, 273

Wiegand, Ranier, 76

Wiegel, Jürgen, 184

Winberg, A. I., 285, 286

wish list, 17, 21

Wittig, Manfred, 91

Witzel, Werner, 32

Wolf, Markus, 3, 21, 22, 30, 33, 35, 39, 41, 46, 48, 57, 64, 66, 74, 75, 81, 99, 100, 105, 110, 116, 117, 155, 199, 251, 262, 266, 277, 325

   Cuba visit, 166

   identification of, 66

Wollarz, Werner, 284

Wollweber, Ernst, 10

Wörner, Manfred, 263

Yildirim, Huseyin, 102–103, 108

   arrest of, 109, 110

   in Florida, 104

Zabel, Hans-Joachim, 35, 36

Zagreb, 131

Zaid, Mark S., 201

Zehe, Alfred, 36–7

Zehlendorf, 103

Zeiss Ikon, 143

Zentronik Sömmerda, VEB Kombinat, 47

Zuchold, Klaus, 48–9





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