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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rash of espionage cases followed defection to the West of Lieut. Werner Stiller, a key officer in East Berlin's state security apparatus. Stiller, who was actually a West German agent, identified a number of East German spies working in West Germany. Since his defection, 14 suspects have been arrested, and 18 others have escaped to the East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Sexy Spies | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...East German defector huddling with his wife and their small child in the gloom of a nearly deserted S-Bahn platform in East Berlin, waiting nervously through an early evening snow squall for the elevated train that will carry them to safety in West Berlin. The defector was Werner Stiller, 31, a lieutenant in East Germany's dreaded secret police and espionage agency. Miller had been working as a spy for West Germany. Now, following orders from Bonn's counterintelligence agents, he was fleeing to the West on the S-Bahn, the prewar rapid transit that still connects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The S-Bahn Spy | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...Stiller's secret-police credentials had cleared him through an inspection by East German guards at the platform gate. Ten minutes after the train arrived, Stiller and his family got off at the Zoological Garden station, the first main stop in West Berlin. From there, waiting West German agents rushed them to Tempelhof Airport. An American military jet flew the three Frankfurt, where West German intelligence agents installed them in a safe house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The S-Bahn Spy | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

That was the end of Reel I. After debriefing Stiller, West German agents began rounding up suspects he had identified as spies who were supplying East Germany with information about the Federal Republic's civilian nuclear-power program and about disposition of West German and U.S. military units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The S-Bahn Spy | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...problems. Credit counselors assert that much of the legislation of recent years has been ineffective because most consumers do not know their rights under the laws. That points to a broader problem. Borrowers in general are appallingly ignorant of the basic economics of credit. Says Boston Debt Counselor Mel Stiller: "People are not taught in school how to use credit and how to do family financial planning. They just never learn how to survive in modern economics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: MERCHANTS OF DEBT | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

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