European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pohl. Money in t the main reason spy. You Don t make Money  tinge of West German espionage my that Tew of their countrymen soul of ideological conviction. A old German Federal Republic has comparable to the Cabal of educated British intellectuals who jes for the soviet Union through a superiority of communism. Hanking West German intelligence Are Dohnt Switzerland another German is spoken was far More induration than his country. He us division of Germany its nazi feeble West German National s3 As reasons for the country s h Ihal if the . Is rather Hie. Compared to Switzerland it is the absence of an identity with the Federal Republic he said. Won of Tiedge a 19-year Veteran Litany s  Agency ise in Point. Grant Issue came dramatically into 4 Whan Chancellor Willy Brandt 10 resign Afler an East German liter Gullaume an immigrant from Jim was discovered in his Igat Lve commission recommended of film report that resettled East Tould be subject to More thorough aka. But Chancellor Helmut aft of censer government refused to t recommendation which remained the problem for us is that we cannot put All the people who come from the . Under a Blanket of mistrust commented Gerhard Baum a former Interior minister in the Schmidt Cabinet and a Tea Dong figure in the free democratic party. East Germany s communist rulers by contrast go to extraordinary lengths to Seal Oil sensitively placed officials from any contacts with the West. Flanking members of the ministry Tor state Security for example live in luxurious ghettos and Are watched 24 hours a Day. There is no member Oltha people s army who has a relative in the Federal Republic observed Herbert Hellen brooch the former head of the office for the defense of the Constitution. They see the danger. They Are germans. This makes them hard to  according to various specialists. Low morale in the West German intelligence Community has lately become a severe problem. Traditionally the two main intelligence services have not had Strong political backing irom Bonn and governments have sought o insulate themselves. Since the founding of the German Federal Republic every head of the office for the defense of the Constitution has departed because of scandal. Hellen brooch who had been promoted to take Over the Federal Inlall gence service would have been the first exception to this Rule but he was dismissed Tor having allowed Tiedge a Clear Security risk to keep his Post. Morale was not heightened experts maintain by tha Kohl government s impulse to play Down the Tiedge scandal to protect diplomatic relations with East Germany. As the affair was peaking Franz Josef Strauss the powerful governor of the state of Bavaria said at a news conference in the East German City of Leipzig that intelligence services mostly reported nonsense. Colleagues of Interior minister Friedrich Zimmermann contend thai an excessive concern for individual privacy embodied in legislation from the Brandt Schmidt Era has inhibited counter espionage one ministry oficial noted Ihal such scruples have prevented photographs from being attached to the dossiers of secretaries and others who undergo Security Chacks. So if you want to put somebody under surveillance this Oli Iclal said you have to first go and get a photograph of him so that the people watching him know who he is end what a looks  this official also argued that the extremely strict West German legislation on the tapping of telephones and mail interception Overly limits such activities. The Law stipulates that if a Telephone tap does not Lead to prosecution the person concerned must be informed of the action rather than provoke civil rights scandals the official said the ministry errs on tha Side of prudence. Some Erst la from Friendly nato services contend that a bureaucratic mentality pervades West German intelligence and they Welcome the appointment of the hard driving Hans Georg wreck a professional Diplomat with experience in the soviet Union to head the Federal intelligence sen ice. Gullach is a 4ft-Day-week place a nato intelligence officer complained using the name of the service s Headquarters. You should try to get a phone Call through there on a Friday afternoon. Wieck wiil shake things  Western experts warn regularly against a tendency to glamorize the East German ministry for state Security. But Over the years the ministry has enjoyed political backing Conli Noily in its leadership Gan. Markus Wolf has led its intelligence gathering Wing since the 1950s and status in the communist Hierarchy. They have a stricter discipline than the army or the police and live in their own world segregated from the per be of invented Franz Loeser a Hian ranking East German communist who selected in 1983. The frightening thing i that Over the years there has been a tremendous growth of the machine of the secret police. You can visually see that by the number of huge buildings the secret police have built in East  in their contest with the Wesl. The East German services have suffered setbacks most spectacularly in 1979 when Werner Stiller a top ranking officer in he ministry Lor state Security selected to West Berlin. But the ministry s caste mentality and marxist Leninist indoctrination clearly enable Many East German officers to Ward off the temptations of the Good life in the Wesl. There is such a thing As ideological motivation an american intelligence officer warned. You and i Don t believe in it but it  witty Brandt tight Mignard at Chancellor after gun Lafr Grill aunt loft Wai Arm Ltd. The stars and stripes Page 151986