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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...
...espionage might have made for amusing reading had it emerged from the pages of a spy novel. 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...
...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. "I'd do it again," he said after his dismissal...
Though the spies were falling thick and fast, both the Kohl government and the West German opposition were eager to prevent the disclosures from undermining efforts by the two Germanys to improve relations. With Kohl's blessing, Franz Josef Strauss, the Bavarian conservative leader, planned to visit East Germany this week for the annual Leipzig trade fair and a meeting with East German Party Boss Erich Honecker. In addition, former Chancellor Willy Brandt intends to see Honecker in East Berlin later in the month. In that sense, though the spies may have been real, officials in both countries seemed...
Trying to limit the damage, the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl notified NATO allies of the security breach, while the Interior Ministry began an investigation. So far, politicians have refrained from blaming Kohl, and his government does not appear to be in immediate political danger. Gerhard Jahn, a member of parliament from the opposition Social Democratic Party, deplored the defection but added that he believed the government "doesn't want to hide anything...