"The Man Without a Face" dies

BBC News ^

[crazedsocialist]

Markus Wolf, the former head of communist East Germany's foreign intelligence service, has died at the age of 83, his family says.

Wolf kept such a low profile that Western intelligence services did not have his picture.

But as a key figure in the feared Stasi security ministry, he was a highly influential figure in the Cold War.

He was interviewed by the BBC last year over his role as a journalist at the Nuremburg trials in 1945-6.

He said witnessing the evidence of the Nazis' crimes "influenced my later life because anti-fascism became the raison d'etre of my life".

[nonliberal]

The population of Hell increased by one. May this communist bastard burn!!

[Last Dakotan]

I went through Check Point Charlie on the Berlin Wall when I worked in Germany in the mid-80's. Most people knew about the graffiti that was on the west side of the wall, but not what was written on the east side.

There was written at even intervals "Ihr Tod ist unsere Aufgabe" (Your death is our duty), which was also written on the Nazi concentration camps.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

A good friend from north Missouri monitored East German radio traffic for the US Army while assigned to West Berlin. He said the Army constantly rolled tape hoping to record Wolf's voice and thought they got him on one occasion with a single word, "Ya."

[crazedsocialist]

Apparently he was first identified on a photo in 1979 taken by the Swedish Security Police in Stockholm, after having been the head of Stasi for over 20 years.

[Toby06]

RIP (rot in purgatory)

[jordan8]

A local used book store has this guy's autobiography. I've been tempted to buy it but spies, especially communist spies, are such liars by nature I don't know how much value it has.

[JewishRighter]

Here's a photo:






































Can't believe no one pulled this stupid thread trick before.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Prayers for his soul.