Willy Brandt

Willy Brandt      (politician)
Born	Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm 1913-12-18 Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Germany
Died	1992-10-08 (Age 78) Unkel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Religion	Lutheranism
Children	4
Spouse	Carlotta Thorkildsen
Member of	Counterintelligence Corps, US/Department/State/International Visitor Leadership Program
Interest of	Albrecht Müller
Party	Social Democratic Party of Germany, Socialist Workers' Party
Socialist International‎/President In office 1976 - 1992  Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany In office 21 October 1969 - 7 May 1974  Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany In office 1 December 1966 - 20 October 1969 Succeeded by Walter Scheel  Social Democratic Party of Germany/Leader In office 1964 - 1987  West Germany/Minister for Foreign Affairs In office 1 December 1966 - 20 October 1969 Preceded by Gerhard Schröder (CDU)  Governing Mayor of West Berlin In office 3 October 1957 - 1 December 1966  President of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin In office 11 January 1955 - 2 October 1957

US asset

In 1950, Brandt, while a member of the Bundestag and the editor-in-chief of the Berliner Stadtblatt, received a secret payment of about 170,000 Deutsche Mark from the U.S. government (equivalent to €390,177 in 2009). He denied to comment the revelation.

Brandt agreed to become a CIC informant in 1948 out of concern over Soviet efforts to suppress his party, the Social Democratic Party of Germany. In the years that followed, he provided his handlers with several hundred reports obtained from social democrats in the Soviet Zone about political, military, and economic conditions there. As Brandt's significance in Berlin rose, so did his value as an American intelligence source.

 

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