MAJOR SPY SCANDAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100230051-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2011
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: August 23, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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equipment and the right loca-
tion. Bamford notes the glass
boxes on the roof of the Soviet
Embassy looks suspiciously like
-listening posts.
U. S. spy agencies suggest
the State Department plundered
in choosing this site for the
Russians back in 1969. The
Russians say we were given the
land; we didn't take it, and no
pictures, please, on the
grounds.
SOVIET OFFICIAL:
possible.
It is
ENGBERG: Beyond that, the
Russians aren't talking about
the embassy flap, except that
they enjoy the view from up
here
.
Eric Engberg,
Washington.
News,
Successful MX Test
WALLACE: An unarmed, four
stage missile was launched
today from Vandenberg Air Force
Base in California.
While it was the ninth test
firing of an MX, it \was the
first from an underground silo
under so-called realistic
conditions. And it took`~thirty
minutes for the missie to
reach its target more than
4,000 miles down-range.
The Pentagon called the test
a success.
ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT ABC TV
7:00 PM AUGUST 23
Major Spy Scandal
TED KOPPEL: The man in
charge of protecting West
Germany against East German
espionage may, it turns out,
have been an East German spy.
If so, it could, as Hal Walker
reports from Bonn, prove to be
one of the worst intelligence
fiascos in years.
HAL WALKER:
Early
morning, West German Police
combed the residence of missing
counter-espionage chief Hans
Joachim Tiedge looking for
clues that would explain his
sudden disappearance last
weekend.
The answer came a short time
later from East German news
sources. In a brief item, they
reported that the supposed spy
chaser had defected and
requested asylum in the East.
Tiedge's prime responsibili-
ty was tracking 'East German
secret agents. He had worked
in sensitive government posts
for 19 years. Earlier this
month, Economics Ministry aide
Sonja Lueneburg disappeared,
followed by a secretary for an
East bloc refugee organization,
and then a West German army
messenger, all believed to have
fled to the East with West
German secrets.
Ironically, it was Tiedge
who was supposed to be watching
them. Neighbors said the de-
fector had begun drinking
heavily since the death of his
wife three years ago. A recent
photo showed evidence of
Tiedge's apparent dissipation.
Officials in the capital,
Bonn, appeared shaken as they
talked with reporters. Tiedge
had wide knowledge of the
entire West German intelligence
apparatus, they said, but he
did not deal directly with
Bonn's secret agents abroad.
Chancellor Helmut Kohl de-
nounced East Germany for its
trickery.
CHANCELLOR KOHL: This has
to create suspicions. It shows
that their promises of good and
neighborly relations and the
reality are often far apart.
WALKER: It was the uncover-
ing of top level government
aide Gunther Gaillume as an
East German spy that brought
down Chancellor Willy Brandt
eleven years ago.
There are reports tonight.
6 Monday, August 26, 19:15
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