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THE EAST GERMAN
SECRET POLICE
All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Copyright 1999 by Westview Press, A Member of the Perseus Books Group
Published in 1999 in the United States of America by Westview Press, 5500 Central Avenue, Boulder, Colorado 80301-2877, and in the United Kingdom by Westview Press, 12 Hids Copse Road, Cumnor Hill, Oxford OX2 9JJ
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Koehler, John O.
Stasi: the untold story of the East German secret police / John
O. Koehler.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8133-3409-8 (hc).
1. Germany (East). Ministerium fr StaatssicherheitHistory.
2. Secret serviceGermany (East)History. I. Germany (East).
Ministerium fr Staatssicherheit. II. Title.
HV8210.5.A2K64 1999
363.28309431DC21 98-26742
ISBN-10: 0-8133-3744-5 ISBN-13: 978-0-8133-3744-9 (pk) CIP
eBook ISBN: 9780786724413
Design by Heather Hutchison
The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984.
To the victims of totalitarianism
| ADN | Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst; the East German governments official news agency |
| ANC | African National Congress |
| AP | Associated Press |
| BfV | Bundesamt fur Verfassungsschutz; the (West) German Office for the Protection of the Constitution |
| BKA | Bundeskriminalamt; the (West) German equivalent of the U.S. FBI |
| BND | Bundesnachrichtendienst; the (West) German Federal Intelligence Service |
| BRD | Bundesrepublik Deutschland; the Federal Republic of (West) Germany (FRG) |
| CDU | Christliche Demokratische Union; Christian Democratic Party (German conservative) |
| Cheka | Vserossiiskaia chrezvychainaia komissiia po borbe s kontrrevoliutsiei i sabotazhem; the Soviet Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counterrevolution and Sabotage (the first Soviet secret police organization, 19171922) |
| CIA | U.S. Central Intelligence Agency |
| CIC | Counter Intelligence Corps (of the U.S. Army) |
| CPSA | South African Communist Party |
| DDR | Deutsche Demokratische Republik; the (East) German Democratic Republic (GDR) |
| DKP | Deutsche Kommunistische Partei; the name adopted by the West German Communist Party after the 1950s ban on communist parties was lifted; previously known as the KPD |
| DM | deutsche mark; the (West) German currency |
| ERP | Peoples Revolutionary Army (El Salvador) |
| FDP | Freie Demokratische Partei; Free Democratic Party (German liberal) |
| FMLN | Farabundo Marti Revolutionary Front (El Salvador) |
| FPL | Popular Liberation Forces (El Salvador) |
| FRG | Federal Republic of Germany |
| FSLN | Sandinista National Liberation Front (Nicaragua) |
| GPU | Glavnoe politicheskoe upravlenie; Soviet Main Political Administration (secret police, 19221923) |
| GRU | Glavnoe razvedyvatelnoe upravlenie; the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate |
| gulag | Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelno-trudovykh lagerei; the Soviet Main Administration of (Corrective Labor) Camps |
| HVA | Hauptverwaltung Aufklrung; the Main Administration for Foreign Intelligence |
| IM | inoffizieller Mitarbeiter; secret police informer |
| KGB | Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti; the Soviet State Security Committee (19541992) |
| KgU | Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit; Battle Group Against Inhumanity |
| KOKO | Kommerzielle Koordinierung; Commercial Coordination, a Stasi-controlled clandestine trading group |
| KPD | Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands; the name borne by the Communist Party of Germany before the post-World War II ban on communist parties in West Germany |
| LPB | Libyan Peoples Bureaus; Libyas foreign embassies |
| MAD | Militrischer Abschirmdienst; West German military counterespionage service |
| MfS | Ministerium fr Staatssicherheit; Ministry for State Security (Stasi) |
| MGB | Ministerstvo gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti; Soviet Ministry of State Security (19461953) |
| MK | Umkhonto we Sizwe; Spear of the Nation (South African terrorist group) |
| MVD | Ministerstvo vnutrennikh del; Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs (19531954) |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NKGB | Narodnyi komissariat gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti; the Soviet Peoples Commissariat of State Security |
| NKVD | Narodnyi komissariat vnutrennikh del; (Soviet) Peoples Commissariat of Internal Affairs (19341946). During World War II, the counterespionage functions of the NKVD were delegated to the newly formed NKGB, which after the war was put under the aegis of the MGB. |
| NSDAP | Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi) |
| NVA | Nationale Volksarmee; East German National Peoples Army |
| OGPU | Obedinennoe gosudarstvennoe politicheskoe upravlenie; the Soviet State Political Administration (secret police) |
| OIBE | Offizier im besonderen Einsatz; (Stasi) Officer on Special Deployment |
| PDS | Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus; Party of Democratic Socialism (new name of the East German Socialist Unity Party, the SED) |
| PMAC | Ethiopian Provisional Military Administrative Council (also known as Derg) |
| SED | Sozialistische Einheitspartei; East German Socialist Unity Party (communist) |
| SIM | Servicio Investigacion Militar; Military Investigation Service (Spanish Civil War secret police) |
| SMA | Soviet Military Administration (in post-World War II Germany) |
| SPD | Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands; Social Democratic Party of Germany (left wing) |
| UFJ | Untersuchungsausschuss Freiheitlicher Juristen; Investigating Committee of Free Jurists |
| USAREUR | the U.S. Army European Command |
| Vopo | Volkspolizei; East German Peoples Police |
| ZAIG | Zentrale Auswertung und Informationsgruppe; the Stasis central analysis and information group |
When I began the research for this book, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, I knew that I would need to tap many sources. Peoples responsiveness to my requests for information and guidance was overwhelming, and I wish to express my deepest appreciation for their unselfish support. My thanks to Gnther Buch, Berlin, former chief archivist of the Ministry for All-German Affairs; Andreas von Blow, Bonn, former federal minister for research and technology and member of parliament; the late William Colby, Washington, D.C., former director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency; Ernst Cramer, Berlin, vice chairman of Springer Verlag; Ambassador and former state secretary Gnther Diehl, Bonn, who supplied important data; Edward J. De Fontaine, Alexandria, Virginia, a superb journalist and my close friend for thirty-five years, whose skillful editing of the manuscript kept it from becoming twice as long as the Bible; Otto Doelling, New York, general executive of Associated Press World Services; Eduardo Gallardo, Santiago, Associated Press bureau chief for Chile; Presiding Judge Klaus Forsen, Dsseldorf; Judge Wolfgang Frank, spokesman for the High Provincial Court, Frankfurt am Main; Ambassador and former Undersecretary of Defense Karl-Gnther von Hase, Bonn, a member of the Council of Elders of the Christian Democratic Party who opened important doors; Tony Helling, Bonn, former
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