European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 08, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine the stuff of spy thrillers East West Germany espionage network Ham Joachim Tiedge a to German espionage official defected be the eat. By Susan j. Smith associated Presse espionage is a Way of life Lor relations Between East Germany and West Germany and Many experts say there s no Way to Stop it. Trusted secretaries give away secrets to East German Romeos who be been wooing them Tor information. Occasionally powerful men in Bonn get toppled from office when the Case attracts enough attention. Espionage affairs like the current scandal plaguing Bonn Are a predictable consequence of the division of Germany after world War ii according to Bonn officials Western diplomats and analysts. It s relatively easy to spy Here Tor the East germans. There Are no language differences. We have an open society and a relatively open immigration policy especially foe East germans said Joseph a Deal a spokesman for the Intra German relations ministry. We will never be Able to Stop it he added. An estimated 3,000 people Are spying in West Germany for communist East Germany at any one time counter espionage officials estimate. The periodic unmasking of East German agents has made West German history sometimes sound like spy thrillers by John be Carre who indeed has featured the East West German spy network in some of his writings. Herlbert Helle Broich the head of West Germany s chief intelligence Agency lost his of aug. 29 Over the latest spy scandal. Tim discovery of the Mott notorious East German spy Guenter Gullaume brought Down the government of former Chancellor Wilfy Brandt in 1974. But spies have shaken the credibility of other governments from tha first Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to the present one Helmut Kohl and caused lasting friction with Western allies who worry about sharing their secrets with Bonn. I Ong term this Means we can t share the really sexy stuff with them. It s the Best Way to give it to the East  one Western diplomatic source in Bonn said. He spoke on the condition that he not be named. Many people in Bonn refer to West German intelligence As a Sieve. The latest spy scandal included East Germany s announcement on aug. 23 that top West German spy fighter Hans Joachim Tiedge had defected. Tiedge is believed to have compromised West German intelligence for at least two years to come. Yet both Germany have stressed their desire for no Long term harm to relations perhaps indicating How accustomed both sides have become to the espionage game. The East German official news Agency adn has said 168 West German spies have been caught in the last 18 months bul that Only the level headed policies of the East German democratic Republic Are to be thanked for the fact thai this has not led to a serious Strain in the relationship Between the Cdr and the Federal Republic of West  Tiedge s defection along with the arrest of a Secretary from president Richard von Weizsaecker s office who last week admitted that she was a spy and the disappearance of three other people from Bonn have strained Kohl s coalition government. But there is no indication that the government will fall As it did in 1974 when a very bitter Brandt father of the Ost politic treaties of rapprochement with the East stepped Down. Guillaume a personal aide to Brandt was close enough to the Chancellor to have vacationed with him in Norway in 1973. Among the documents that passed through his hands on that trip was a personal letter to Brandt from former . President Richard Nixon. Guillaume and he wife. Christel had emigrated to West Germany in 1956 with the secret task of gathering intelligence on Brandt s social democratic party. Chancellor Adenauer was horrified in 1954 when the head of the West German Federal intelligence Agency Otto John defected to East Berlin and appeared at news conferences there to denounce Adenauer s policies. A Lew months later John suddenly reappeared in West Germany saying he had really been drugged with poisoned Cognac and kidnapped by the East germans. The West German supreme court did not believe his Story and sentenced him to four years in fall. Now 76 years old in is still Irving to Clear his name. In 1961, a mole was found in the highest reaches of West German intelligence. It turned out that Heinz Felfe whose Job it was to track soviet spies was working for the Kab. Foreign espionage techniques exposed the spy Case in East and West Germany has introduced Trade Craft concepts usually reserved for spy novels into the daily news. Some were undoubtedly employed in the current espionage scandal. Recruiting classic intelligence methods require patience and Long Range planning As when a country plants a seed and arranges for a Young person to take a Low level Job in another government activating any spy who Rise to a High position. Other agents establish citizenship and a legend with fake papers and histories. Some agents Are recruited through Blackman. Counter espionage double agents infiltrate enemy intelligence agencies pretending to spy for one country while actually serving As a mole to pass secrets to the enemy. When the cover of such an agent is blown As occurred in West Germany other spies Are jeopardized. Communicating agents pass secrets to contacts in several ways. For example thousands of East and West germans Cross the Border Dally to visit relatives. Predetermined drops Are used to Transfer information. On urgent traffic radio can be used briefly for spurt transmissions which condense thousands of words into a split second too Short for locators to detect. Defections Occas tonality spies defect and seek Asylum with an enemy exposing intelligence secrets and publicizing the International espionage game. Captured agents Are sometimes returned to their country in prisoner swaps. Sunday septembers 1985 the stars and stripes Page 13