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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...
...will remember, of course, that Bernard Samson, England's rough-cut intelligence agent in Berlin, was bamboozling communist Stasi operatives with great success until his beautiful and highborn wife Fiona defected to East Germany and set up shop as a KGB colonel, no less. This breach of marital etiquette caused Samson endless problems -- how to find a suitable nanny for the children, whether to marry his young mistress, how to prove that he himself was not a Soviet mole, and so on -- detailed moodily and lengthily in the two most recent novels of Deighton's double trilogy, Spy Hook...
Some commentators argue that just as West Germany had to live with the shame of the Nazi years, it is now the East's turn to expiate collective guilt. Margarete Mitscherlich, a Frankfurt psychoanalyst, rejects that equation. "The Stasi is not the Gestapo, and Honecker is not Hitler," she says. "Whatever one can say about the Stasi, we are not now confronted with Auschwitz as we were after Hitler." Another Frankfurt law professor, Erhard Denninger, agrees that comparisons with the Nazi era are inexact. "The Nuremberg trials dealt with crimes against humanity and genocide," he argues. "You can't charge...