The Main Directorate for Reconnaissance was the foreign intelligence service of the Ministry of State Security, the main security agency of the German Democratic Republic, from 1955 to 1990.
Mielke addressing the SV Dynamo, March 25, 1983.
Markus Wolf (November 1989)
HVA-Berlin
Markus Wolf
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Markus Johannes Wolf, also known as Mischa, was a German spymaster who served as the head of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance, the foreign intelligence division of East Germany's Ministry for S
Main Directorate for Reconnaissance
…leadership of Anton Ackermann, disguised as the Institut für wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Forschung (IPW) (Institute for Economic Research). According to Markus Wolf, eight Germans and four Soviet "advisers" were present at the founding on 1 September 1951 in Bohnsdorf in the borough of Treptow-Köpenick. The APN was…
Wolf in 1989
Friedrich Wolf with his wife Else and their sons Markus (left) and Konrad (right), 1926
Grave in Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde (Berlin)