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Even so, signs of the old days in Europe have not entirely vanished. The KGB used to have 1,000 of its officers based at Karlshorst in East Germany. Now that the country is unified, the KGB has become the FIS, and its agents, as well as those of the GRU, the Russian military intelligence organization, have moved into the barracks of the Russian-army troops still stationed in the united Germany...
...edge of the East-West chasm, it is the base for 210,000 U.S. troops and a sizable nuclear arsenal, and it can be easily serviced from espionage centers in East Germany. On certain nights, a voice broadcast over a short-wave band from the closely guarded Karlshorst...
...story, according to Bonde-Henriksen, was that he had visited Wowo that night to "get some support for a widow of an executed anti-Nazi underground leader," and had been persuaded to go to his other flat in West Berlin ... "I woke up two days later in Karlshorst [Russian army headquarters]. A female doctor was sitting at my bedside and ... I got one injection and later on another, and I didn't feel clear in my mind . . . Right after the conference with the world press, I was flown to Moscow and was held in custody for two weeks. They...
...army war memorial. They rode, accompanied by a U.S. Army Lieutenant, in a radio-telephone-equipped Army sedan. East German Volkspolizei approached the parked car and forced the party at pistol point to follow them to a nearby guardhouse. From there the Congressmen were taken to Soviet headquarters at Karlshorst, and were told they had violated the laws of East Berlin by operation of the sedan's radio transmitter. After four hours they were released...
...alert" force was German General Walther von Seydlitz,* survivor of Stalingrad and a key figure of the Moscow-sponsored Free Germany Committee. On the evening of Oct. 153 special Russian plane landed him at Johannisthal-Schbneweide airfield near Berlin; then he was whisked to Soviet military headquarters at Karlshorst...