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...statistics were kept for such things, Markus Wolf might be said to have had the longest winning streak in the annals of espionage. For more than three decades before his retirement in 1987, he ran a succession of agents in the nerve centers of the West, and nowhere more effectively than in West Germany. Yet last week, that rampage through the history of spycraft appeared to have ended in bright morning sunshine at the village of Bayerisch Gmain on the Austrian border. There, nearly a year after German unification, Markus Wolf, now 68, surrendered...
...tale sounded like a John le Carre thriller, and with good reason: the main character is believed to have been the model for the novelist's Karla, the fabled communist spy master. Markus Wolf, former chief of the foreign intelligence arm of Stasi, East Germany's dreaded secret police, emerged in Vienna last week, where he had been secretly living since Aug. 30. He applied for political asylum in Austria -- a request that was promptly denied. The wily spy chief, who is wanted in Germany on espionage charges, is currently free on appeal...
...shoot-to-kill command have escaped justice. Former East German leader Erich Honecker remains in the Soviet Union, and though Bonn has demanded his extradition, he is not expected to appear in court anytime soon. One man who may show up to face possible prosecution, however, is Markus Wolf, the legendary spymaster of former East Germany, who fled before the Germanys united last October and who is now rumored to be planning a return from Moscow...
Fischer said the most explosive details are contained in the files of the department's secret-intelligence agency, the section run by the fabled Markus Wolf until his retirement in 1987. "That stuff is dynamite, and ((West German)) agents might not like what they find in it," said Fischer. The archives also contain videotapes of individuals in sexually compromising situations, financial records of Stasi-front business enterprises, and electronic surveillance transcripts that could become evidence in criminal prosecutions -- to say nothing of destroying political and professional careers. Berlin officials reported last week that Stasi bugging devices even turned...
...Bulgaria to carry out assassinations. Now, however, the KGB's symbiotic relationship with Warsaw Pact agencies is threatened by reformist governments in the region. Though these countries' foreign operations have not yet been curtailed, some spies -- especially East Germans -- are trying to come in from the cold. Last month Markus Wolf, the former head of East German intelligence whose prowess at placing agents in Bonn's highest offices led to his depiction as the formidable Karla in Le Carre's spy novels, went to the Soviet Union, presumably to help the KGB roll up the East German operations. "Some...