WEST GERMANY PROBLEMS FOR SPIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200830011-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 11
• Content Type: NEWSPAPER CLIPPING

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SI'Yi.NG has long been a reward-
ing ocenippatioa in divided C;er-
nlaliy, but. now Wost Ccrn;any's
lnictli once s r'vice is coaljititil-
in ; of political iilter(ercnce.
Tile. T cdcrc;l Inlc' tcnc: Ser
vice, FiNI), has been,'carcd in
the tradition of anti-Comnluniit
espiona' Many of its oliieci's
~4'Oi'ked 111 the l1r azi `'Vehrli ch 11
intclligencC servic on the 'Ens-
Siall fron:t? But since Cha?ncehor
Willy Branch began developing
his Osipolitik---his pursuit of
better rekitions LL?ith Coiranumist
Eastern Europe-- thins have
changed. Airing their problems
in the ncws-nl:fgizine Doi, Spie?,
gel, INI) oill iccIs s:t that,. 'as a
result, morale and Ci I1C)' in
the 5,500-man service have
started to nosedive.
It is said that the Social Demo-
cratic Ciovernmeilt in Bonn has
been trying to het th4? West
Gel'11 an espionage sC'SIcr.'undcr
its political control. Last yealr
the SPJ) appointed one of its
Otlii'1:)1S ? as vice- pY,'esidc11t of
BNDD. Sink: then. N"Ivs Dc?r Spic-
^el. there hats been ;t decline in
co-operation between \Vcst Ger-
i?IlAt11' i spies rind bo;i1 the
Anser!e;ol' CIA it nll f'irltatil ,i
Secret Inlellige ce Service (515)?
11 godly, ~Ve iern Al-nicd
n"cm,ts now s:u:pect th:{ their
German counterparts arc: bein
influenced by :political bias into
c:,'.hcrinc 'worthless intelligence
reports on Eastern Europe. And
for it long tittle the \Vcsa Ger-
'{1);llli i`\A i ~) N" ith
Ili rich of iii lll:forlll`itien Lail the
East
It is olsu c a med that
Ch;i+,lc:'ilerv has cttll,:J for and
o!atair,c l lists cf nanrc.s of
BIN' D's intelligence openitivcs.
One 1.Nt) oliicial is quoted as
saying that no other int:liig,ence
service has Over been in '-e a
Sltlliition. " l\8111 ?.. 1 i our
{c~enTt_. he Says, ?` are L's}:Iectc'il
from I f '?x`17 head
quar.tcr-s outride Munich and
sent to Bann-tile?yr-ry lace
in oll` thls loose.`
Approved For Release'2006/06/19': CIA-RDP88-01350R000200830011-1