Word: stasis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nearly as shocking was the arrest of Gabriele Gast, 47, an employee of Bonn's espionage service, where she helped prepare a weekly top-secret intelligence summary for Chancellor Helmut Kohl. For six years she had passed copies to the Stasi, sometimes before Kohl himself saw the reports...
...colored buildings on Berlin's Normannenstrasse that once served as headquarters for the Stasi, the East German state security service, may turn out to be the world's biggest molehill. As agents from the Western part of Germany search through the archives, they are discovering that over the years a burrowful of East German spies managed to infiltrate West Germany more thoroughly than Bonn had thought. Since unification day on Oct. 3, police have apprehended more than a dozen espionage suspects, and more arrests are expected. "The people in the West were foolish enough to believe that these files contained...
...biggest catch so far is Klaus Kuron, 54, a senior West German counterintelligence officer who was responsible for turning East German spies working in West Germany into double agents. When Kuron surrendered last week, he confessed that he had been a double agent himself, providing the Stasi with top-secret information over the past eight years, including the identities of those who had worked for him. The Stasi paid Kuron $2,500 a month for his disloyalty. "That is the highest goal there is -- to put an agent exactly where Kuron was," said a shaken Heribert Hellenbroich, a former chief...
...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 up in church confessionals...
Kohl himself suggested that some of the Stasi material should remain secret. "We cannot permit a failed communist regime to posthumously poison the atmosphere in our country," the Chancellor said last week. "If there is evidence of a crime, then it should go before a court. But we should not start a witch hunt...