Word: diger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gallows humor was part of Bonn's reaction to the Federal Republic's latest espionage scandal. In the past two weeks, six West German secretaries of high-ranking officials have been accused of spying for East Germany. The most recent suspect is Helga Rödiger, 44, who worked for Manfred Lahnstein, state secretary in the Finance Ministry and Bonn's top expert on monetary affairs. Last week, after she failed to show up for work, agents of the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, West Germany's equivalent of the FBI, discovered that she had fled...
Bonn's counterintelligence assumed that Rödiger and her swain had fled to East Germany, as a number of other unmarried secretaries have recently done. Three of the women were employed by officials of the Christian Democratic Union, while a fourth worked at NATO headquarters in Brussels. All were apparently ensnared by a now familiar East German gambit: assigning handsome male Communist agents to lure well-placed secretaries into love-and spying...