KOHL AND AIDE MEET ON SPY CASE; INTELLIGENCE SHAKE-UP IS EXPECTED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000504230007-4
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 27, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEARED ,v E W YORK TIMES
ON PAGE August 1985
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Kohl and Aide Meet on Spy Case;
Intelligence Shake- Up Is Expected
also disclosed that Mr. Tiedge, who
joined the agency in 1866, had from 1976
to 1979 been transferred out of the sec-
tion dealing with the tracking and de-
tention of East German spies, but had
returned to it "at his own demand."
Mr. HArdtl said it was still unclear
whether Mr. Tiedge was a longterm
can in no way be cleaned up by meas. ness.
ures against individual functionaries." The spy scandal widened Sunday
In coming debates, the Social Demo- evening when a 50-year-old secretary
crats are certain to recall that two of in the offices of President Richard von
their senior figures had resigned be- Weizsiicker, Margarete Hoke, was ar-
cause of espionage imbroglios - Chan- rested on suspicion of being an East
cellor Willy Brandt in 1974 and Defense German spy.
Minister Georg Leber in 1978. Miss HOke had worked for 21 years in
the Presidential complex and in her
resignation, warned that "the scandal
PasiVoe^taey Nsaekld set East German operative or whether he
Mr. Vogel, suggesting that his party had impulsively decided to defect be-
would seek the Interior Minister's cause of mounting personal problems,
Mr. Kohl's spokesman told a news
conference that after a Cabinet meet-
ing Tuesday the Chancellor would have
a second report on the spreading espio.
nage affair and then draw the appropri-
ate "personnel oorsequeno 1 "- an al-
lusion to an anticipated shakeup in the
country's intellipoce establishment.
dy JAMBS M. MAR101AM
spsdU to no Nw Yet 'non-
BONN, Aug. 26 - Chancellor Helmut "We assume that be did not know In the meantime, reviewing
the
Kohl met today with his Interior Minis- about this," the spokesman said of the Officers were reported
that Mr. Tiedge had worked on to
ter about what intelligence experts are security check. An earlier check, in c determine if there was a pattern
calling one of the worst spy scandals in lyg3, had determined that there were deception in his work.
West German history. problems," be added. In the apparently thin hope that Mr.
As they conferred. the leader of the Mr. Hsrdti said the latest check had Tiedge might rent his decision to de-
opposition Social Democratic Party, been ordered by Ludwig Holger Pfhals, fact and return, Bonn officials have
HanssJochen Vogel, said the marl r the new president of the Federal Office been trying to get into contact with him
Minister, Friedrich Zimmermann, for the Protection of the Constitution, in East Berlin. Their efforts have so far
bore "political responsibility for the, as the country's counterespionage been fruitless. Mr. Ost insisted, though,
greatest endangering of security in the agency is Ja own, that the Kohl Government was "afro in
Federal Republic's history." The Interior Ministry spokesman contact 01 with East Germany on the
Mr. Vogel on Tuesday is to chair a
Parliamentary subcommittee that will
take testimony from Mr. Zimmermann
and other witnesses on the latest spy
scandal, which erupted last Friday
when East Germany announced that
Hans Joachim Tiedge, a 19-year vet-
eran of West Germany's counterespi-
onage agency, had defected and asked
for asylum.
This followed the disappearance of
two Bonn secretaries and an army
messenger, believed to be East Ger-
man agents.
security Cheek Was Ordered
Wighard Hsrdtl, an interior Ministry
spokesman, said a security check had
been ordered on Mr. fledge three days
before he vanished Aug. 19. Mr. HArdtl
said the check had been ordered be-
cause Mr. Tiedge was a drinker and led
a disorderly life, not because of suspi-
cions that he was an East German
operative.
lag post was a ranking foreign policy aid c The post
tion gave her access to top-secret for-
eign policy documents and reports
from west German embassies.
Suspects Reported Shadowed
Mr. HArdtl said that Miss Hoke had
been under observation for some time.
Other Government sources said the
woman, who had lived quietly in an
apartment in a Bonn suburb, had been
recruited by an East German agent
who had become her lover.
Friedhelm Ost, the spokesman for
Chancellor Kohl, said today that he had
no information on new cases of espio-
nage. But there were persistent reports
of intensive shadowing of suspects in
Bonn and of other imminent arrests.
The Government's information policy
seemed partly aimed at keeping sus-
pected agents off guard.
The Cologne police are also invest-'
gates Mr. 'fledge for the possible mur-
der of his wife in 1982. The official ac-
Count of the can indicates that the
wife, Ute Tiedge, had succumbed to
head wands received in a bathroom
accident; neighbors contended that
Mr. fledge had struck her with a spaghetti bowl.
Sources indicated that Mr. Tiedge
emptied his bank accounts before leav-
ing the country, but he apparently did
not inform his three teen-age daughters
of his decision.
As Bonn's interest was seized by the
Tiedge affair, the left-wing Green
Party dissented from the general view
that the defection had damaged West
Germany's At special leadership gathering in
Soltau, the party resolved that the
Federal Office for the Protection of the
Constitution should be dissolved since
it was incompatible with democracy at
home and good relations with neighbor-
ing countries.
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