Markus Wolf. "Man of Moscow". Part 4
Anal stress and visual euphoria completely blocked the already shallow thinking abilities of the first president of the USSR. Does he have time to think about the fate of many thousands of people in the country, which was the outpost of the Eastern Bloc and the largest trading partner of the Soviet Union? With his answer: “You are Germans, you should sort it out,” Mikhail Sergeevich gave Helmut Kohl “carte blanche” the right to judge the “guilty” at his discretion.
In international intelligence circles, Major General Markus Wolf has gained a reputation as the "man of Moscow" from the Eastern Bloc. Thanks to the relationship that linked him with the Soviet Union since the 1930s, he was in a special position. Fluency in Russian and constant contacts with colleagues from the KGB allowed him to judge the internal and external state of the USSR.
"Gray eminence" for the chancellor. The Guillaume Affair
No one would ever have known about the work of intelligence officers if they had not had defeats. The most successful Stasi operation was the Guillaume Affair. Gunther Guillaume completed intelligence training courses in Moscow and through the GDR was sent to the FRG as a political emigrant.
There he began his career as a simple clerk at the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party under the leadership of Willie Brandt. For many years, the olfactory Guillaume was an informant and agent of influence. As the future chancellor climbed the political ladder, the incredibly zealous Guillaume rose with him.
In 1973, he became Willy Brandt's right-hand man - the personal assistant of the German Chancellor and gains access to his secret documents and NATO materials. The Germans called him the "gray man".
Gunther's wife Christel was the liaison with Markus Wolf. In 1974, West German counterintelligence managed to uncover the spouses. The exposure of Guillaume resulted in an international political scandal, as a result of which Willie Brandt had to resign.
Multivolume Collection of Western Secrets
In 1955, the "Hallstein Doctrine" was adopted and promulgated in Bonn. She assumed that the FRG would maintain and strengthen diplomatic relations only with those states that do not recognize the sovereignty of the GDR. For a decade and a half, the German Democratic Republic did not even have its own embassies in the capitalist countries.
In fact, these were the conditions for the emergence of a political and economic blockade of East Germany. The country was put on the brink of survival. Naturally, it could not do without the help of the Soviet Union, which accepted the GDR into the economic system of socialism - the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA). East Germans quickly found ways to survive, placing the development of the food and light industries at one of the highest levels among the socialist countries.
The olfactory Markus Wolf successfully used the already well-known methods, which had long been developed by the world special services. In addition to military intelligence, the Eastern European intelligence services were engaged in scientific, technical and industrial espionage.
The developed capitalist countries waged an economic war not only against the GDR, but also against the Soviet Union. Novelties of technical progress were kept secret, but the key was even to the most secret information.
If military secrets were transferred to the Stasi for ideological reasons or thanks to amorous employees of the military departments and state structures of the Federal Republic of Germany, then industrial secrets in the skin world, where money rules and the concept of its "benefit-benefit" dominates, had to be bought. Among those from whom the intelligence was received, there were many citizens of West Germany, always ready to "drain" the necessary information for a tidy sum.
Wolff introduced his people to the largest industrial corporations, and the know-how they gained was intended for the entire socialist camp. The Ministry of State Security of the GDR prepared special “gifts” for the USSR for the “red dates”. Usually it was a collection of documents relating to the latest technology that Wolf's agents stole from their western neighbors.
Thanks to the work of the Eastern European special services, the Soviet Union managed to save billions of rubles on the development of new technologies in the light and food industries, in machine-tool building and electronics.
For example, the East Germans even managed to declassify the American Coca-Cola recipe. Having procured the extract and carried out a chemical analysis, they started to produce a new drink, Vita-Cola, which significantly increased their state budget.
Time for disappointment
“The urethral nucleus attracts the rest of the flock to itself, guaranteeing them safety and security,” says Yuri Burlan at his lectures on systemic vector psychology.
Until the early 80s of the last century, the USSR kept the countries of the Eastern Bloc in political and economic balance, protecting and supporting them in the international arena. Since post-war times, Czechs, Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Poles and East Germans have not known the word “unemployment”. They looked with envy at their western neighbors, whose living standard was undoubtedly higher, but they owed their survival and stability to the urethral Moscow.
NATO SECRET
Major General Wolf learned about the impending collapse of the socialist system long before the unrest in the Eastern Bloc began. Thanks to a "source" at NATO's Brussels headquarters, the Stasi received a copy of the East-West document. It described the states of the Socialist camp and the Soviet Union, and developed a plan for their collapse.
Markus showed this document to the then leaders of the GDR and the USSR - Honecker and Chernenko, but the elderly party bosses were unable to assess the seriousness of this plan and make the right decision. Yuri Andropov, the chief of the KGB and the short-term General Secretary of the Soviet Union, with whom Wolf was associated with work, understanding the situation on the equality of the properties of the olfactory vector, and just personal friendship, passed away.
Honecker, behind the back of the USSR and his own MGB, was preparing for negotiations with the West Germans, who promised him a billion-dollar tranche into the economy. Due to differences of opinion with Honecker and MGB Minister Milke on a number of state issues, Markus asked for his resignation.
The olfactory person intuitively feels the approach of change and impending danger. His extraordinary mind and ancient unconscious program suggest to him unmistakable behavior and the ability to "get out of the game in time", remaining a passive observer "on a hill, at the edge of the village." Retired Major General Markus Wolf also chose his position for observation.
There was another reason to retire. Wolf fell in love with a young woman who was 24 years his junior. Marcus has always enjoyed success with women. His relationship with Andrea lasted over two years. The couple could only get married after Wolf's divorce, for whom this marriage was the third. The divorce issue was resolved at the party level. Marcus left his career for a new family.
In the history of intelligence, it is rare that the head of such an effective intelligence service applies for resignation. Wolf was adamant. Honecker and Milke were forced to agree to relieve him of his post as head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of State Security of the GDR.
The former Stasi chief was under surveillance. Security officers monitored his every move. No one could believe that a man with such an unblemished reputation as Major General Markus Wolf, with no other position where he could apply his professional knowledge, could leave such an influential, honorable and well-paid post.
Markus found a new realization for himself. He started writing books.
Hostage of historical change
On November 9, 1989, the Honecker government resigned. The Berlin Wall was destroyed, its remains were taken away for souvenirs. After 20 days, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl published the "Program for the unification of Germany." 40 years after the enmity and split, the two states have united.
Markus Wolf emigrated with his family to the USSR, continuing to consider it his second homeland. Concerned about the fate of his former colleagues from the Stasi, he writes two letters to Mikhail Gorbachev, in which, referring to his personal authority and many years of joint work with the KGB of the USSR, he asks to protect intelligence officers of the GDR and its agents in the West from persecution.
“Once again, I appeal to you to remind you of the fate of your country's friends, former intelligence officers of the GDR … Former workers and intelligence officers will face severe sentences, they need to be helped by all available means” (from a letter from Markus Wolf to MS Gorbachev).
The anal-visual with undeveloped properties of vectors, Gorbachev did not answer. After the August putsch, the Soviet committee members advised Markus to leave Moscow.
Wolf asked for political asylum in Austria, but eventually returned to Germany in September 1991. There he was arrested on charges of betraying the interests of the German people and spent eleven days in solitary confinement. He was then released on bail.
A crowd of journalists was on duty around the house of the Wolf around the clock, hungry for sensations, and the apartment was besieged by CIA officers, offering him a move to California and a decent pension for "leaked" information about the former Stasi's residency in the United States.
The honor of the officer's uniform and the mental urethral values that were laid in the German boys Misha (Markus) and Kolya (Konrad) Wolf in the pre-war Moscow courtyards did not allow the retired major general to betray the scouts with whom he had worked for many decades.
Markus Wolf never hid his Jewish roots and even negotiated to leave for Israel, but he was told that his presence there was undesirable. In Austria, which at the beginning of the 90s was not yet part of the Schengen area, the Wolves still emigrated.
Gorbachev's betrayal
Now the chancellor of the united Germany, Helmut Kohl, turned to Mikhail Gorbachev with the question of considering the fate of members of the Politburo, army officers, security officials and employees of the MGB of the former GDR.
Anal stress and visual euphoria completely blocked the already shallow thinking abilities of the first president of the USSR. Does he have time to think about the fate of many thousands of people in the country, which was the outpost of the Eastern Bloc and the largest trading partner of the Soviet Union? With his answer: “You are Germans, you and understand it,” Mikhail Sergeevich gave Kolya “carte blanche” the right to judge the “guilty” at his own discretion.
“The biggest disappointment was that the political leadership of the Soviet Union, the closest ally and friend, actually gave us intelligence officers, and not only intelligence officers, into the hands of the victors of the Cold War” (from an interview with Markus Wolff).
Return and arrest
Kohl's official visit to Moscow and the signing of the treaty became Gorbachev's public renunciation of the GDR. Wolf considered this the biggest betrayal of his life. Lawsuits began against his former colleagues. He makes a decision to refuse political asylum and return back. On the Austrian-German border, an armored Mercedes was already waiting for the Wolf family. Markus Wolf was arrested and after the trial was sentenced to six years in prison, but the sentence did not go into effect.
In 1996, an even louder trial took place in Dusseldorf, where Wolf was tried for treason. Former Major General of the GDR MGB, Markus Wolf, did without lawyers and was ready to defend his former colleagues himself. "It was a pleasure working with you, General!" one of his former subordinates said at the trial. 73-year-old Markus Wolf was sentenced to three years probation.
The head of the GDR counterintelligence service died on November 9, 2006, and he could not resign. Until the end of his life, Markus Wolf continued to fight for the release of his former colleagues from the Stasi, who were imprisoned after the unification of Germany. He fought for each individual of his flock, for which, in an urethral manner, he was personally responsible.
- Part I. Markus Wolf. "Man Without a Face"
- Part 2. Markus Wolf. "Journalist for Nuremberg"
- Part 3. Markus Wolf. "Honey trap" for lonely frau
