| 22.11.200911:21 (GMT) | The former head of the West German secret services (1985-1990), Hans-Georg Wieck, was a guest of prestigious political magazine Politique International. He told at his presentation that the German secret services had its agents in all countries of the Socialist camp, including in the USSR. Their best agent has worked in the KGB for 17 years, but the he was exposed and executed.
Already in 1988, if not in 1987, Moscow was undertaking attempts to strengthen the camp of reformers inside the East Germany’s ruling Communist party, SED. The future GDR Prime Minister Hans Modrow and the ex-head of its intelligence Markus Volf acted as intermediaries between Moscow and the reformers.
Residents of East Germany who wished to visit their relatives in the West Germany, should receive a sanction from the Stasi secret service. Nobody was happy that the sanction to a meeting with his/her mother should be received at secret services.When Hans-Georg Wieck headed German secret services, the West German government believed, that the East Germans were happy with their life. The questioning of the GDR residents who visited Germany helped to change this viewpoint. When Wieck happened to travel to the GDR and Poland he received impressions that these countries were closer to collapse, than to stability. Therefore he decided to resort to system of questioning. Wieck says they made a questionnaire of approximately 20 questions, including conditions of life, supply, opportunity to go abroad, social life (friendship, etc.). From these questions they followed to actually political themes, but they did not distribute the questionnaire for the answer in written form, they caried out informal oral questionings. The people did not suspect that these data were then processed by West German secret services. Each six months they received results from approximately 600 interrogations. The Federal government, the parliamentary institutes, engaged in East Germany affairs, and also the British, American and French allies received the results.
Ambassador Wieck personally transferred them to Elysee Palace accompanied by the leadership of the French secret services, and also to the US White House and the Downing-Street. Such questioning done for the first time in forty years was intended to understand whether changes are possible and whether the East German regime stands „on solid legs”.
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