Rainer Wiegand
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 Rainer Wiegand  (spook) | |
|---|---|
| Died | 1996 Spain |
Cause of death | "car crash" |
| Nationality | East German |
Rainer Wiegand was a colonel in the East German intelligence service Stasi[1]
In January 1990, as East Germany was collapsing, Wiegand fled to West Germany with two large suitcases full of highly sensitive Stasi documents.[2]
Death
Wiegand together with his wife "died in a mysterious car crash" in Spain.[3][4]
Event Participated in
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| Operation Rosewood | One of the greatest coups of Cold War espionage: the CIA secreting away in 1989 of the complete original files from East Germany's foreign spy operations, including the true identities of its thousands of agents, most in West Germany and other NATO countries. |
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References
- ↑ https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE%7CA120779628&v=2.1&it=r&sid=googleScholar&asid=8be18505
- ↑ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.2968/055004017
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/04/13/super-snoopers-tales-of-the-east-german-stasi/78bbffa4-639f-4db4-95da-403ee1c73f71/
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/11/22/cold-war-footnote-cia-obtained-east-germanys-foreign-spy-files/d1f48d4c-9c7c-473b-b7d9-011aa353b71c/
