Word: wendland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inside its borders, has long been considered NATO's weakest security link. But even the most cynical were soon fascinated, for Ludke's death marked the beginning of an astonishing wave of suicides among government officials. On the day of Ludke's death, Major General Horst Wendland. 56, deputy chief of the Federal Intelligence Service, Bonn's equivalent of the CIA, shot himself in his office. The government explanation: he was despondent over an "incurable depressive illness." On Oct. 15, a promising young official in the Economics Ministry hanged himself. On Oct. 16, a woman working...
...each case, there were personal explanations for the death, but security officials did not rule out other motives, even though only Ludke, Wendland and Grimm had had access to classified information. One line of speculation suggested that extensive security checks launched in sensitive departments after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia might have frightened enemy agents into suicide. Bonn admitted last week that toward the beginning of October, after one East German agent had been arrested, six others fled West Germany. But it did not tie them to the admiral. By week's end the Ludke case remained open...
Died. Major General Horst Wendland, 56, No. 2 man in West Germany's Federal Intelligence Service; by his own hand (he shot himself three months after learning he had an incurable disease); in Pullach, West Germany. Quiet and unassuming, "the house father," as his staff called him, was an able administrator who supervised the service's more than 5,000 employees and directed its intelligence training...