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He never repented - never saw the need to. Markus Wolf was so clever a spymaster that the fact he worked for East Germany, a repugnant regime that rightly disappeared into history's dustbin, never dented the massive ego that had driven his success. When he died Thursday at 83, quietly...
Wolf's most famous victory was Gunter Guillaume, a long-time East German agent who feigned escape from the East to the West in 1956, became a successful businessman and politician in Frankfurt, and rose to become a trusted aide of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, in charge of Brandt...
As East Germany disintegrated, Wolf called for reforms, but finally sought asylum in the Soviet Union. He claimed to have turned down a CIA offer for a lifetime of ease in the U.S. if he would spill his secrets. He later returned to Germany and was sentenced to six years...
While most potential Undergraduate Council (UC) presidential and vice- presidential candidates have remained tight-lipped about their election ambitions, several tickets have recently become open secrets within the UC and beyond.
Observers expect many more tantalizing clues in the months ahead about what might be happening behind closed doors, but no definitive answer. For now, China's leaders are still too good at keeping secrets.