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...been tricked. A green van suddenly shot out of the clinic and tore down the hill at high speed. Inside was one of the most famous convicted spies in Europe: Günter Guillaume, 54, whose espionage in high places brought about the fall of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt...
...release of Guillaume ended a political scandal that rocked West Germany seven years ago. Guillaume, who turned out to be a captain, later promoted to colonel, in the East German army, was a "mole" who worked his way onto Chancellor Brandt's personal staff in the early 1970s. At the spy's trial in 1975, officials testified that Brandt trusted Guillaume so completely that he was allowed to carry decoded NATO documents bearing the top security classification "cosmic" to and from Norway, where the Chancellor spent his holidays. The trial, and reports that Guillaume had collected evidence...
...West's bargaining position vis-á-vis the Soviet Union is hardly enhanced by Brandt's style of parallel diplomacy, nor, ironically, is any possibility Brandt may have to return to the chancellery...
Schmidt's downfall could return to power the Christian Democratic opposition, which takes a far tougher view of negotiations with Moscow than does the mellowing Willy Brandt...
Twenty years later, it still scars the mind-gray and brooding, the 103-mile-long concrete barrier known universally as the Wall. Willy Brandt was mayor of West Berlin when the East Germans sealed the border virtually overnight. Last week, in its own schizophrenic way, the city that incarnates all of the tragedy of Europe's brutal division between East and West marked the latest anniversary of the monument to repression...