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...group's members. The 15 people at the meeting had been close friends for years. Most were involved in Lutheran church activities; two were pastors. And at least four of the 15 were also paid informers of the East German Ministry for State Security, the Stasi...
...Poppes, who were denied educational opportunities and adequate housing during the Stasi's reign, have now been allowed to see the reports prepared by those former friends, and to learn the depth of their betrayal. The documents, which also revealed Stasi attempts to break up the Poppes' marriage, are part of the secret archives opened Jan. 1 for inspection by the 6 million eastern Germans -- one-third of the population -- on whom dossiers were compiled. More than 300,000 have applied to read their files...
...former East German spies and intelligence officials can be prosecuted for simply having done their jobs. The issue was brought before the court in July when a Berlin judge suspended proceedings against Werner Grossmann, Wolf's successor as chief of the Hauptverwaltung Aufklarung, the foreign-intelligence department of the Stasi secret police. It would be a violation of the German constitutional guarantee of equal treatment, the judge contended, to convict an eastern German spy for something that western German spies continue to do legally. Both a former chief of West German intelligence and a former Constitutional Court judge have echoed...
...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...
...military hospital near Potsdam to a similar facility outside Moscow. Honecker faces charges of manslaughter in Germany, but at 78, and reportedly suffering from cancer, he is unlikely ever to face trial. That is also true of Erich Mielke, the former Minister of State Security and boss of the Stasi. Mielke is 83 and, according to his lawyers, incompetent to stand trial by reason of senility...