Theurmer, Angus MacLean. “My Stasi File: Tattered Cloak, Not Much Dagger.” Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jul. 1998, 11.Materials presented chronologically.
Theurmer, Angus MacLean. “My Stasi File: Tattered Cloak, Not Much Dagger.” Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jul. 1998, 11.
The author was CIA chief of base in West Berlin from 1975 to 1978. He wrote to the West German office in charge of old East German intelligence documents, Der Bundesbeauftragte fur die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemalige Deutschen Demo-kratischen Republik, and received his Stasi file -- 18 pages of tailing reports. He was still waiting for his FBI file.
Pincus,
Walter. "Cold War Footnote: CIA Obtained East Germany's Foreign Spy
Files." Washington Post, 22 Nov. 1998, A2. "CIA to Germany:
What Spy Files?" Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 30
Nov. 1998, 17.
"[T]he complete original files from East Germany's foreign spy operations, including the true identities of its thousands of agents,... are in the possession of the Central Intelligence Agency and are stored at the agency's Langley headquarters.... Sources, requesting anonymity, said the files were obtained after the fall of East Germany's communist government. They had been removed from Stasi offices in Berlin well before the Berlin Wall fell by members of the East German clandestine service....
"[R]ecords from the files were used in the espionage trial in Virginia of Theresa Marie Squillacote and Kurt Alan Stand.... In an affidavit, FBI special agent Katharine G. Alleman said she had 'inspected copies of certain HVA file records and I have been provided information concerning other HVA file records,' without noting where or from whom she obtained the records....
"As one former intelligence official aware of the operation ['Operation Rosewood'] said recently, 'When the complete history of the closing days of the Cold War is written, this will be one of CIA's greatest triumphs.'"
U.S.
Department of State. "Daily Press Briefing." 23 Nov. 1998.
Asked to confirm the report that the U.S. Government had the Stasi files, State Department Spokesman James Rubin acknowledged that "[f]ormer East German opposition leaders did present a petition to the US Embassy in Berlin on November 9," 1998. He, then, noted: "The German Democratic Republic State Security Service was an intelligence and police agency. We do not comment on intelligence matters."
Associated
Press. "Germany Demands US Return Spy Files." 9 Dec. 1998. [http://www.ap.org]
In a television interview, German intelligence chief Ernst Uhrlau demanded "that the United States return former communist East German spy files the CIA allegedly grabbed at the end of the Cold War."
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