SOVIET SPY NETWORK EMPLOYS HUGE STAFF IN GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200150004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Content Type: NSPR

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BONN. Germany (AP) - West
Germany. is fighting,off the most
massive Communist espionage at-
tack ever launched against a sin-
gle country.
I nter1or Minister Gerhard
Schroeder said recently that ? an
estimated 16,000 agents work for
East bloc Intelligence services In
West Germany.
Despite many olstacles, Bonn
go' ernmcnt agents manage to un-
co?. f c about 200 agents, a month.
Still, for every lost spy the Com-
munists seem to have another!
ready to take his place.
Huge Payroll
lli h-ranking officials of Red In-,
telir .enre services, who defected
to the West, have rreed that
about 19.5M persons are 1?tlme'
employes of Soviet, East German,
Polish, Czech lcivsktan, Hungar
ian and Ruigaoan' spy? orgaauulz*t
tior,s in Fast Germany. mostly
stationed in or around Fist Bet%
lin.
The Est ; ,Vverman Gouuc udsts
alone spa)4 #W ritillidtn , j.' year.
on espionage and subversive op-
erations against Weiit Germiit f
_. - ---~-~ =--=--- . . , 1 "Ve , her into : becoming k ,spy
spy, during which he once dined Ins. for the Communist for Id .A.; tiffs t experience was -66. nerve- ,
cozily with Director Allen Dufes
of the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agetfcy, John detected to East
Germany ' in 1454. He gave the
Communists important West Ger
man and Allied , counterlntell11?1
gence secrets. Including names ,of
agents operating behind the Iroi
Curtain.
John remained in Fast Ger{
many for 11 months and then r
defected to the West. After a long.'.,
trial, during which he claimed he
was drugged, kidnapped and 'bald
against" his will [n" Fast Germlrtry
John was sentenced to.four'years
at hard labor. He served barely
half -of his -sentence..
Recruiting ,Easy
There were perhaps another
little reasons. The greatest num-
eHal gain or, adventu .
But only a few et M
ix, more than $100'a month,
Blackmail
Blackmail is an effective and
ii Clely used recruiting method
"dais cite the cue. "of,`ttig
petty wife of a;-Bonn ;:Defense
Ministry official .who war visiting
her mother in East Germany:
Dti~riag' i tafltlly eel t"I I a,' pt?
tended any several . dfiieers from
ttering the woptan, atterppteCh
side three times 'lifter `she re-i'
turned to the West.
,
k ~:Gounterintelligencc officials said
,
their ? 'biggest olistade'. ' i;~ ? ihiE"
courts, which they believe tenrl'.
w
to be too ' lenientith spies.
'Interior Minister Schroeder said'
rman courts should follow the`
examples of their U.S. and Brit-
ish ,counterpaits,' which hand ft, !L'
is German courts.
e ' Communist ' intelligerc a
>ar anizatiuns can recruit , a per-
'nand say: Don'trworry 1f you i.
W, East' German` Sty' `M. ls-
try, ' the, woman -,drank a ~'blt' too
much and was photograph in
an "embarrassing situation" with
oihe ? o the Red agents.- !of ' ,you," orie, Allied Intl lligence l
A few days a; later,, an'MFS of?iot"fjeial cnm(n~i
half dozen serious cases but,th}
overwhelming. majority of agents
are "little operators."
Red spy recruiters have a
tfvely' eery job finding prospects `"
in this, divided nation. One-fifth'.
of Wed gGerm
ny'a #e
etpe 8. and areftage a m r;;?
manatpeaking areas now domin?
ated 'by corn _i "P*
hapa
Schroeder said. every third es German has'
To combat this operation, the relatives in Communist ,Fast
Bonn government employs lust i Germany.
over 3,000 counterintelligence, The. German agent spying on
agents and 'office personnel. They] his ,own country needs no elab'
op'rate on an annual budget of, orate disguise and before .:tip
F17-5 million.
Communists closed the border;
around Berlin a great many''
Most Dangerous
agents slipped in with the refu-
Officials are reluctant to re-1 1
14
gee stream.
-e.
ea's precise annual statistics, Fir Are Idealists
but the last t ht `
:n a as eight years courts' Western security chiefs I ay`
'o;ivu'ted more than 2,000 per- about .80 per cent of 'tine -16,000'
sons on espionage charges andagents -operating In West Ger"
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no,c than 19,000 admitted recely. many are, working for the East
rn ,,ssignments which were not German Ministry for,St*te Securi?1
carried out.
According to security officials!ty (AIFS) and the East German
h- most dangerous spy was Al- array's military intelligence
red Frenzel, 61. Socialist memberibranch. The other 20 per, cent!
of the Defense Committee of the,work directly for the Soviet Un-`
-} u'xlestag (Parliament) from'ion and the other Red countries.
1?:Y1 until his arrest last fall. Security officials assert 1Fat
F I'C n, 1, sentenced to 13 years' only 1 out of 1.0191 agents is -
har(f labor earlier this ,.ear.
;; ;~lled the Czechoslovakian in:
' Gi,t;ence service with West Ger-j'
=ny's defense plans for 1941 and;:
the outlines of the At..'
, ll ance's defense require
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FSPiONAGE EVli)E, ('E--Some documents used by
Fast German spies. Small cards are credentials of
Ministry for State Security; oral disc is suet police
badge; card inscribed "Department of the Army" Is
forged U.S. identification.
caught. Yowl only go to jail,,
I IF
fqr a couple %+' Ycars and when
you're free we 'will tmket?good`ca;re