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BONN -- The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service has handed over a list of about 2,000 names, mostly coded, of western Germans who once served as spies for East Germany's secret police, the infamous Stasi. Experts say some are likely to be prominent figures in politics and industry. "There will be some big scandals. Some names are well known," says a Bundestag source. Chancellor Helmut Kohl, in power since well before unification, may have something to worry about: 19 years ago, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt was forced to resign after just one spy was discovered in his chancellery...
...leftists -- communists and socialists -- responded to it, more often than not, with revulsion. In France the Communist Party did its best to isolate the young enragees. In China senior party hacks shuddered before a Cultural Revolution whose slogan was "Attack the Party headquarters!" In communist East Germany the Stasi agreed with its Western counterparts that student leader Rudi Dutschke was a "dangerous subversive...
Since German unification, scores of former East German Stasi spies have been unmasked, but German officials estimate that about 1,000 are still in place and that about 300 of them have switched their allegiance to C.I.S.espionage agencies. Earlier this year, a German employee of the U.S. mission in Berlin and two former Stasi officers were arrested for belonging to a spy ring that targeted U.S. Air Force personnel in Europe. Significantly, one of the ex- Stasi men was already working on the Kremlin's behalf, according to federal prosecutor Alexander von Stahl. In Britain senior officials say at least...
...TEAM HIT German police, acting on information from files of the old East German secret service, the Stasi, arrested 11 suspected operators in a network that committed as many as 500 crimes, including murder and burglary. Two of those in custody are former Stasi generals based in Berlin. Police say the Stasi recruited the ring of criminals during the 1970s to kill those it considered enemies of the East German state and to perform other missions. The Stasi paid at least 21 Westerners about $1.25 million to commit the crimes...
...STASI is gone. The KGB has closed its doors. Most of the autocrats of Eastern Europe are dead. Democracy has swept the world...