Posted on 08/21/2017 12:08:24 AM PDT by Fedora
In 2004 the German author Norbert Juretzko published a book about his work at the BND. He went into details about recruiting partisans for the German stay-behind network. He was sacked from BND following a secret trial against him, because the BND could not find out the real name of his Russian source "Rübezahl" whom he had recruited. A man with the name he put on file was arrested by the KGB following treason in the BND, but was obviously innocent, his name having been chosen at random from the public phone book by Juretzko.[29] According to Juretzko, the BND built up its branch of Gladio, but discovered after the fall of the German Democratic Republic that it was fully known to the Stasi early on.
Also, when Black September held the Israeli Olympics hostages capitve, they wanted to trade them for members of the Red Army Faction.
Mitrokhin archive has been public for 3 years now. I wonder if some interesting books are coming out based on that material. 3 years could be enough time.
And this only took them thirty years to figure out?
When you go back and examine the core of the RAF...very few lasted more than five to seven years, then they were ‘retired’ or simply disappeared (probably given a new ID). By the early 1990s...they were on the fourth generation, and public appeal was going fast. It’s odd how the timing of the Wall coming down, and the RAF almost fit perfectly together.
If you ask me...no one in the German government really wants to go far into this topic. Journalists might be curious and ask stupid questions, but public interest at this point is marginally existing. No one cares.
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