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Kim Philby, British double agent, reveals all in secret video

Edit BBC News 04 Apr 2016
A previously unseen video of one of Britain's most infamous spies describing his career as a Soviet agent has been uncovered by the BBC ... He ends with advice to the East German spies. "Dear Comrades." ... After an introduction from East German spymaster Markus Wolf, who was so elusive to western spy agencies that he was known for many years as "the man without a face", Philby makes his way to the lectern to a hero's welcome ... He succeeded ... ....

A German lesson for Clinton’s email controversy

Edit Stars and Stripes 02 Feb 2016
The more threatening Hillary Clinton’s alleged mishandling of classified information becomes to her chances at the presidency the more I think the story has a relevant precedent ... The Soviet Union fell apart, Germany reunited, and Markus Wolf, by then former head of Stasi intelligence, wrote a letter of apology to Brandt (“Well, that doesn’t help much now,” the ex-chancellor is said to have remarked grumpily after reading it) ...  . ....

Berlin sets up refugee shelter at former Stasi HQ

Edit Yahoo Daily News 22 Nov 2015
The office block was once the fiefdom of legendary spymaster Markus Wolf. Dubbed "The Man Without a Face" because Western intelligence services long lacked even a photograph of him, Wolf directed one of the world's most formidable espionage networks for nearly three decades. A legend in his own lifetime, Wolf successfully ran more than ......

From Putin to Mullah Omar, traces of cold war paranoia still shape our world

Edit The Guardian 30 Jul 2015
In an interview on Desert Island Discs in 2006, David Cameron told an amusing anecdote about a jaunt to Yalta when he was 19. over lunch in the resort city on the Black Sea, the KGB had “interviewed” the young prime minister-in-waiting with view to future employment ... Related ... I worked with the late Markus Wolf, the East German spy chief, on his memoirs ... As my old frenemy Wolf put it, these things don’t stop mattering ... ....

The New Spymasters: Inside Espionage From the Cold War to Global Terror; Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies – review

Edit The Guardian 05 Jul 2015
Two timely books on spying reveal the shortcomings of intelligence and its stranglehold on modern life. Ulrich Tukur and Martina Gedeck in East German spy drama The Lives of Others. Photograph ... Related ... a resistance by Markus Wolf, head of the Stasi, to exchanging his card file system for a computer database. “Wolf’s fear,” writes Corera, “was that if they were computerised, the records could then be accessed too easily.” Wolf was right ... ....

Film appreciation: Solo Sunny - a glimpse of '80s East Germany

Edit South China Morning Post 25 Feb 2015
The eponymous protagonist of Konrad Wolf and Wolfgang Kohlhaase's 1980 drama is a pop singer with a band called The Tornadoes who's frequently attired in blue jeans and a black leather jacket ... He subsequently embarked on a film career; as the younger brother of Stasi spymaster Markus Wolf, he would appear to have been a candidate to make propaganda films ... Wolf's co-director, Kohlhaase, was also Solo Sunny's scriptwriter....

Hundreds of thousands of people celebrate freedom (German Federal government)

Edit noodls 11 Nov 2014
Eyewitnesses, people who resisted the SED dictatorship in East Germany, including singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann, were invited to take part in a discussion ... It was spymaster Markus Wolf, who headed the foreign intelligence division of East Germany's Ministry for State Security from 1952 to 1986....

Hundreds of thousands of people celebrate freedom (German Federal Chancellor)

Edit noodls 10 Nov 2014
Eyewitnesses, people who resisted the SED dictatorship in East Germany, including singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann, were invited to take part in a discussion ... It was spymaster Markus Wolf, who headed the foreign intelligence division of East Germany's Ministry for State Security from 1952 to 1986....

Swiss-Ski gears up for Falun (FIS - Fédération Internationale de Ski)

Edit noodls 11 Oct 2014
(Source. FIS - Fédération Internationale de Ski) ... The day also included a presentation by discipline heads Hippolyt Kempf and Berni Schödler and sports director Markus Wolf who had been to Falun and reported about the latest developments at the venue ... distributed by ... (noodl. 25415685) ....

US double standards exposed in Berlin spy row

Edit The Irish Times 13 Jul 2014
A few years before he died in 2006, the former East German spy chief Markus Wolf, known as “the man without a face”, told me about the qualities he looked for in the agents his spies recruited in the West ... Wolf’s observation came to mind this week as Germany’s finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, sought to play down the significance of the latest evidence of the United States spying on its German allies ... Platitudes ... ....

Slovakian coach Ivan Hudac for the Swiss Cross-Country team (FIS - Fédération Internationale de Ski)

Edit noodls 09 May 2014
(Source. FIS - Fédération Internationale de Ski) ... Hudac led last season the Polish national team ... Ivan Hudac is going to give with his knowledge and experience valuable impulses for the further development of our athletes, "the sports director of Swiss-Ski Markus Wolf said. ....

Ingemar Walder new Swiss Head Coach (FIS - Fédération Internationale de Ski)

Edit noodls 26 Mar 2014
(Source. FIS - Fédération Internationale de Ski). Ingemar Walder has been announced to follow up Christian Rufer as Swiss Head Coach for the alpine snowboarding team. Walder will start at April 1 ... Ingemar speaks the athlete's language and brings in all relevant trainer skills," said sporting director Markus Wolf before adding that Walder has put his ability to the test successfully many times over the past years ... distributed by....

Yes, we spy on allies. Want to make something of it?

Edit DNA India 29 Oct 2013
This is not to say German Chancellor Angela Merkel has no right to be personally ticked off about the US snooping on her phone calls since 2002. She does. This morning, the Wall Street Journal reported that upwards of 35 world leaders were spied on by the US ... Other reasons to spy on allies ... In 1993 Guillaume said, "The two men I was happiest to serve were Willy Brandt and [East German spymaster] Markus Wolf." ... ....
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