Word: hellenbroich
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Dates: during 1985-1985
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...Hellenbroich was replaced by Hans-Georg Wieck, 57, an experienced diplomat who has served since 1980 as West German ambassador to NATO. Wieck is highly respected in Western capitals, and his appointment was seen as an attempt by the Kohl government to regain the confidence of its Atlantic allies. Investigators have not yet determined whether Tiedge, who joined the OPC in 1966, had been working for the East Germans all along or had gone over to the other side only recently. Whatever the case, the damage was considerable. Tiedge was in a position to know the identities of East Germans...
...Instead it leaped from the headlines of West German newspapers last week, as the country's most serious spy scandal in more than a decade grew even wider. Chancellor Helmut Kohl found the revelations anything but amusing. In an effort to limit the damage, Kohl last week dismissed Heribert Hellenbroich, 48, chief of the Federal Intelligence Service...
Until he took over the service last month, Hellenbroich had been in charge of the Office for Protection of the Constitution (OPC), West Germany's counterespionage agency. As such, he was the boss of Hans Joachim Tiedge, 48, head of the agency's East Germany section, who defected to that country two weeks ago. Despite complaints from co-workers that Tiedge was a security risk because of his heavy drinking and mounting debts, Hellenbroich had refused to move or suspend him, an action that Kohl called "totally incomprehensible." Even so, Hellenbroich insisted that he had not made a mistake...
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