[SkyRat]

Can this be verified?

[ScottFromSpokane]

I wouldn't worry about anything you read on Indymedia.

[slowhand520]

Is Indymedia a proxy for the John Birch society?

[Kurt_D]

Remember that Indymedia is a global gathering of left-wing conspiracy theorist and virulent Anarchists.

[TFine80]

Primakov? Please, that guy's pretty hard KGB.

Hell, he was close buddies with Saddam.

[Piranha]

I hope it's true.

After Stansfield Turner and Jimmy Carter prevented the CIA from obtaining intelligence through the efforts of criminals, the quality of intelligence obtained dropped drastically.

I'm sure that Markus Wolf and Yevgeny Primakov would have lots of useful information to share with the US, particularly as it relates to dissemination of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons capability.

[Servant of the 9]

After WWII the OSS and then the CIA hired the top people from the Nazi Abwer (Espionage and inteligence)

Smart Move to pick up top level Free Agents.

So9

[free_european]

Wolfe was born in the '20s and must be well past 80 by now. I seriously doubt he'd be up to working for the government if her were asked (which I doubt he was).

[free_european]

I just noticed that the story has Wolfe down as head of Stasi - he was head of Foreign Intelligence.... this really seems thin.

[Mad Mammoth]

Mad Mammoth to SkyRat....Mad Mammoth to SkyRat...Authentication Phrase 'Springtime For Sasquatch'...deploy titanium foil reflectors and increase gain on primary psychometric to 110 percent...that is all...

[Barlowmaker]

His name is Markus Wolf and he's going to be 82 years old. I wouldn't worry about this.

[Thebaddog]

It can be verified feverish. I got a headache reading all the subsection designations.

[Buddy B]

Story is from: Indymedia UK, not USA

[Finalapproach29er]

My tagline.......

[Cicero]

Intelligence should be willing to talk to anyone. It's what they make of it that counts. Chertoff looks pretty reliable to me. I'd be a lot more worried if Tenet were doing this, but Tenet is gone, thank God.

[popdonnelly]

Who the hell writes this junk? They're evidently America-haters.

[popdonnelly]

I've seen the same kind of article since the 1960's. Some leftist cranks make a wild accusation, the accusation gets passed around several times, and the story becomes an urban myth. I wouldn't believe any of it until I've seen some hard evidence of what's alleged.

[Malesherbes]

Wolf is in his 80's and the arthritis is creeping up toward his skull. He doesn't know anything more contemporary than what happened in 1989.