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...trio of spies who may have worked with Tiedge are also believed to have followed him to East Germany. A 61-year-old woman using the false name Sonja Luneburg disappeared last August after serving for twelve years as secretary to Martin Bangemann, the West German Minister of Economics. Another woman living under an alias, Ursula Richter, 52, worked as a bookkeeper for a Bonn- based lobbying group for German refugees from Poland, Czechoslovakia and the U.S.S.R. She also vanished last summer...
...Tiedge's superiors knew about his problems, but they feared that switching him to another job might push him over the edge. But by that point, he may already have gone over. Among Tiedge's contacts may have been the three suspected East German agents who recently vanished. Sonja Luneburg, 61, longtime personal secretary to Economics Minister Martin Bangemann, and Ursula Richter, 52, a bookkeeper for a lobbying group, each disappeared while on vacation this month. A search of the women's modest apartments in Bonn revealed spy paraphernalia such as specialized photographic equipment and a briefcase with a hidden...
...three, only Luneburg had access to high levels of the West German government, but the others may have done considerable damage as well. Richter, who was already under surveillance by Tiedge's department, is thought to have worked as a control for other East German agents. One of those may have been Betzing. A onetime air-condition- ing repairman at the government's secret wartime operations bunker in the Ahr valley near Bonn, he would have had access to the layout and operations of the facility...
...Luneburg was Bangemann's trusted secretary for twelve years. Before taking the economics post last year, Bangemann had been a key figure in the leadership of the Free Democratic Party, the minority coalition member in every West German government since 1969. That meant that Luneburg was privy to inside information on party politics and government deliberations. But Bangemann's new job may have netted Luneburg an additional prize. As a Cabinet member, he held a seat on the Federal Security Council, a top consultative body that deliberates on West German defense affairs. Bangemann insists, however, that Luneburg was not involved...
...rotund secretary, her gray hair in a grandmotherly bob, apparently infiltrated the country by taking the name of a West Berlin woman who had moved to France. West German officials say that photographs taken at the time show conclusively that the spy and the real Luneburg are different people. When Luneburg underwent a security check last year, she conveniently forgot to include a picture of herself...