East Germany’s Former Spy Chief Plans Return Home
Former East German spy chief Markus Wolf says he plans to return to Germany as early as this week.
Wolf also told the weekly magazine Bunte that he will not seek a deal with German authorities that would give him amnesty from prosecution in return for his silence. Wolf is wanted on espionage, treason and bribery charges.
He was quoted as saying he knows secrets that could embarrass Bonn’s intelligence service, including Germany’s relations to its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies and neutral countries. But he gave no details to the magazine.
Wolf, 68, told Bunte he knows things that “politicians and authorities in Germany would not necessarily be interested in seeing publicized.”
Wolf, who headed East Germany’s intelligence network from 1958 to 1987, fled shortly before German reunification on Oct. 3, 1990.
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