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	Spymaster
		Wolf was the prototype for "Karla," the archetypical masterspy developed by mystery writer John Le Carre' into one of the demigods of Cold War mythology.
		Wolf was born in 1923 in Weimar Germany.
		Wolf was the great 20th century master of the mole, the long-term agent who lives an apparently normal life in the target country, rising in due course to positions where sensitive information is available for the taking.
	pages.prodigy.net /aesir/spy.htm (2818 words)

	Markus Wolf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Markus Johannes "Mischa" Wolf (January 19, 1923 in Hechingen - November 9, 2006 in Berlin) was head of the General Reconnaissance Administration, the foreign intelligence division of East Germany's Ministry for State Security (MfS).
		Born in Hechingen, Province of Hohenzollern (now Baden-Württemberg), Wolf was the son of the writer and physician Friedrich Wolf and brother of film director Konrad Wolf.
		Wolf claimed to have refused an offer from the Central Intelligence Agency to defect to the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Markus_Wolf (668 words)

	MiamiHerald.com \| 11/10/2006 \| Elusive East German spy master Markus Wolf dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Markus Wolf, whose elusiveness vexed Western spy agencies for decades and who even managed to plant a spy as an aide to West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, has died at age 83.
		Wolf's service was part of East Germany's all-pervasive secret police, the Stasi, which was widely loathed and feared for its huge network of domestic informants.
		Wolf said in his memoirs that ''if I go down in espionage history, it may well be for perfecting the use of sex in spying.'' Wolf said his first ''Romeo,'' an engineering student code-named Felix, started work in 1952 and operated under the cover of a traveling shampoo salesman.
	www.miami.com /mld/miamiherald/news/obituaries/15975418.htm (577 words)

	AP Wire \| 11/09/2006 \| Former East German spymaster dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Wolfs moved to the Soviet Union in 1934, and the young Markus studied aeronautical engineering in Moscow before being sent for political training at a Communist International, or Comintern, school in the Bashkiria region.
		Wolf emerged as a supporter of reforms as East Germans took to the streets to press for change in the fall of 1989.
		In a second trial, Wolf was given a two-year suspended sentence in 1997 for four kidnappings carried out by his agents during the Cold War.
	www.kansascity.com /mld/kansascity/news/local/15968582.htm (873 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Stasi spy chief Markus Wolf dies
		Markus Wolf, the former head of communist East Germany's foreign intelligence service, has died at the age of 83, his family says.
		On the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Markus Wolf fled to Moscow, but later returned to the reunified Germany, where in May 1997 he was tried and found guilty of treason and kidnapping.
		Wolf was rumoured to have inspired the creation of "Karla", a master spy in John Le Carre's Cold War thrillers, but the author denied this.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/6131584.stm (393 words)

	Ex-Germany Spymaster Markus Wolf Dies, Markus Wolf, Former East Germany's Spymaster, Dies at Age 83 - CBS News
		Wolf passed away early Thursday morning in his apartment in Berlin, his step-daughter Claudia Wall said in a statement.
		Wolf said he turned down the offer because he would never have betrayed his ex-agents _ even though it would have put him out of the reach of German prosecutors, who were seeking him for espionage, treason and bribery.
		Wolf is survived by his wife, Andrea, three sons and his step-daughter.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/11/09/ap/world/mainD8L9FIEO0.shtml (997 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Obituary: Markus Wolf
		Wolf was feared and admired by Western intelligence officials and ran a network of 4,000 spies - many of them working deep inside the West German establishment.
		Wolf took a long-term approach to his job, introducing spies into West Germany among the stream of East Germans who fled before the Iron Curtain was imposed.
		The author, Leslie Colitt, who has written extensively on Wolf, believes that some of his success was based on luck, but that his reputation also acted as a magnet for defectors.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/6132684.stm (906 words)

	ABC News: Markus Wolf, legendary East German spymaster, dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wolf's publisher said he had died peacefully in his sleep in the German capital early on Thursday morning, 17 years to the day after the Berlin Wall fell.
		During his 34 years as a spy, Wolf rose through the ranks of the communist state's Stasi secret police to head its elite foreign intelligence division, running a network of 4,000 spies.
		Wolf said in his memoirs that if he went down in espionage history, it should be for perfecting the use of sex in spying, a nod to his use of seductive "Romeo" agents to obtain secrets.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2642074 (368 words)

	Ex-Stasi Spy Chief Markus Wolf Hired By Homeland Security?
		"Wolf is the man that effectively built the East German state intelligence operation’s internal directorate," Martin continues.
		On a radio appearance earlier today Martin stated that the admission that Wolf would be hired was made in a BBC radio interview given by the former head of the KGB, General Yevgeni Primakov.
		After the passage of Patriot Act 3 Wolf and Primakov would be tapped for their expertise in further collapsing America into a surveillance grid police state.
	www.infowars.com /articles/ps/spy_wolf_hired_homeland_security.htm (412 words)

	The Man Without a Face -An interview with Markus Wolf
		For nearly 30 years, Markus Wolf headed the international intelligence gathering arm (HVA) of East Germany's Ministry for State Security (MfS), or Stasi.
		After German reunification Wolf was sentenced to six years in prison for espionage and treason.
		Wolf was interviewed for COLD WAR in January 1998.
	www.infowars.com /articles/ps/wolf_stasi_chief_cnn_interview.htm (2117 words)

	Legendary spymaster Markus Wolf dies - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Born Jan. 19, 1923, in the southwestern town of Hechingen, Wolf and his family followed his father — a Jewish communist, doctor and writer — into exile in France in 1933 after the Nazis came to power.
		Wolf said he turned down the offer because he would never have betrayed his ex-agents — even though it would have put him out of the reach of German prosecutors, who were seeking him for espionage, treason and bribery.
		Wolf, one of the most influential figures of the Cold War, died 09 November 2006, at the age of 83, his family said.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-11-09-wolf-obit_x.htm?csp=34 (1018 words)

	Markus Wolf, former East Germany's spymaster, dead at 83 \| Chron.com - Houston Chronicle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Markus Wolf, former East Germany's spymaster, dead at 83
		Wolf passed away early this morning in his apartment in Berlin, his step-daughter Claudia Wall said in a statement.
		Markus Wolf, East German spymaster, dies at 83
	www.chron.com /disp/story.mpl/world/4322263.html (907 words)

	Amazon.com: Man Without A Face: Books: Markus Wolf,Anne McElvoy,Marcus Wolf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wolf is proud of his professional career and still believes in the Socialist ideal but says (rather self-servingly) that the methods were all wrong.
		Wolf sounds like the usual convict whining from his jail cell to anyone on the outside who will listen about his "innocence." According to Wolf, nothing he has ever done as head of the foreign section of the DDR's version of the KGB/Gestapo was ever wrong or immoral.
		Wolf is credible only to the sort of person who believes that Dick Cheney is being 100% candid when he speaks of the justifications for the Iraq invasion and the current success of our efforts in that country.
	www.amazon.com /Man-Without-Face-Markus-Wolf/dp/1891620126 (2707 words)

	Markus Wolf (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		thumb Markus Wolf (born January 19, 1923, in Hechingen, state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany) is a former head of HVA (Main Administration Reconnaissance), the former East German foreign intelligence division of the Ministry for State Security.
		He is the son of the writer and physician Friedrich Wolf and brother of film director Konrad Wolf.
		In 1953, at the age of 30, he was among the founding members of the foreign intelligence service within the Ministry of state Security or Stasi.
	markus-wolf.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (374 words)

	ABC News: Ex-Germany Spymaster Markus Wolf Dies
		Markus Wolf, the "man without a face" who outwitted the West as communist East Germany's long-serving spymaster, has died Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006.
		BERLIN Nov 9, 2006 (AP)— Markus Wolf, the "man without a face" who outwitted the West as communist East Germany's long-serving spymaster, died Thursday.
		Born Jan. 19, 1923, in the southwestern town of Hechingen, Wolf and his family followed his father a Jewish communist, doctor and writer into exile in France in 1933 after the Nazis came to power.
	www.abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2640333 (409 words)

	FOXNews.com - Legendary East German Spymaster Markus Wolf Dies at 83 - International News \| News of the World \| Middle ...
		AP Former East German spy chief Markus Wolf in a May 1995 file photo, just east of the Brandenburg Gate and the former center point of the Berlin Wall.
		BERLIN —; Markus Wolf, who outwitted the West as communist East Germany's long-serving spymaster, died Thursday at the age of 83.
		Wolf's service was part of East Germany's all-pervasive secret police, the Stasi, or Staatssicherheit, which was widely loathed and feared for its huge network of domestic informants.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,228364,00.html (1197 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Legendary East German spymaster Markus Wolf dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Former East German spymaster Markus Wolf, who was working over 30 years for the East German foreign intelligence network, poses with his new book in Berlin in this June 2, 1997 file photo.
		Still, his image as a dashing, thinking-man's spy has led Wolf to be romanticised in the West in recent decades.
		Following his conviction for his Cold War activities, Wolf launched a four-year appeal, arguing it would be "victors' justice" to punish him for the same cloak-and-dagger activities carried out by western agents.
	news.scotsman.com /latest.cfm?id=1661312006 (816 words)

	RIA Novosti - Russia - Russian spy veterans mourn passing of East Germany's Markus Wolf
		Wolf, who retired as head of the German Democratic Republic's foreign intelligence agency in 1986 after 35 years of service, died Thursday morning in his apartment in Berlin.
		In 1951, Wolf joined the fledgling communist state's foreign intelligence agency, part of the East German secret police, known as the Stasi.
		Wolf, believed to have planted some 4,000 agents in the West to steal NATO secrets for the Soviet bloc, faced prosecution on espionage, treason and bribery charges following the reunification of Germany.
	en.rian.ru /russia/20061109/55495364.html (329 words)

	Germany - E. Germany - Wolf
		Fischer, Benjamin B. "Markus Wolf and the CIA Mole." Center for the Study of Intelligence Bulletin 10 (Winter 2000): 8-9.
		On 18 October 1995, the German federal appeals court "overturned the conviction of Markus Wolf...
		Marcus Wolf "faces the prospect of six months' detention for declining to tell a court in Frankfurt the real name of an agent, 'Julius,'" who is mentioned in his memoirs.
	intellit.muskingum.edu /germany_folder/germanyeastwolf.html (951 words)

	cbs11tv.com - Former East German Spymaster Wolf Dies In Berlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Former East German Spymaster Wolf Dies In Berlin
		Markus Wolf, 83, Was Known As 'The Man Without A Face'
		Known among rival spies as "the man without a face" for his elusiveness, Wolf planted some 4,000 agents in the West - most famously, placing Guenter Guillaume as a top aide to West German Chancellor Willy Brandt.
	cbs11tv.com /topstories/topstories_story_313055432.html (935 words)

	Russian Spy Veterans Mourn Death of East Germany's Markus Wolf - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Russian Spy Veterans Mourn Death of East Germany’s Markus Wolf
		Veteran agents of Soviet and Russian foreign intelligence said Thursday they were deeply saddened by the death of Markus Wolf, East Germany’s long-serving spy chief, who died at the age of 83, RIA Novosti news agency reports.
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	www.mosnews.com /news/2006/11/10/markuswolf.shtml (549 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Markus Wolf, former East Germany's spymaster, dies at age 83
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		Born Jan. 19, 1923, in the southwestern town of Hechingen, Wolf and his family followed his father – a Jewish communist, doctor and writer – into exile in France in 1933 after the Nazis came to power.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20061109-0804-germany-obit-wolf.html (946 words)

	kyw.com - Former East German Spymaster Wolf Dies In Berlin
		kyw.com - Former East German Spymaster Wolf Dies In Berlin
		CBS 3 - Philadelphia's Source For Breaking News, Weather, Traffic and Sports: Former East German Spymaster Wolf Dies In Berlin
		(AP) BERLIN Markus Wolf, who outwitted the West as communist East Germany's long-serving spymaster, died Thursday at the age of 83.
	cbs3.com /topstories/topstories_story_313055432.html (930 words)

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