The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB

6. k-16, 522. The residencies in Cologne and Hamburg were subordinate to that of Bonn, whose head had the title of Chief Resident.

7. k-19, 247.

8. The leader of the snatch squad was another German agent, WAGNER (later renamed FLORA). For this and other special actions, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. While WAGNER was stationed in Belgium from 1964 to 1967, SERGEYEV acted as courier to him. k-5, 88; k-16, 212.

9. k-5, 88.

10. k-5, 283.

11. k-5, 284.

12. k-9, 65.

13. Höhne and Zolling, The General was a Spy, ch. 12. Rositzke, The KGB, pp. 189-94. Andrew and Gordievsky, KGB, pp. 412, 452-3; Murphy, Kondrashev and Bailey, Battleground Berlin, pp. 430-9. Mitrokhin’s brief notes on Felfe contain no detailed examples of the intelligence he provided; they confirm, however, that Felfe’s memoirs, Im Dienst des Gegners, contains disinformation fabricated by Service A (k-5, 284).

14. vol. 6, ch. 2, part 1, n.

15. Peet, The Long Engagement, pp. 3, 101-3, 184-5, 229-31.

16. Peet, The Long Engagement, ch. 30. Childs and Popplewell, The Stasi, pp. 145-6.

17. The best account of the Otto John case is Murphy, Kondrashev and Bailey, Battleground Berlin, ch. 10. Mitrokhin saw no file on the case.

18. Nationalrat der Nationalen Front des Demokratischen Deutschland, Braunbuch and Graubuch.

19. Schmeidel, “Shield and Sword of the Party,” pp. 146-7.

20. k-26, 88. The fact that Brandt was given a codename is not, of course, evidence that he was an agent. Even Churchill and Roosevelt were referred to by codenames in wartime Soviet intelligence cables.

21. Brandt, My Road to Berlin, chs. 2-4.

22. k-26, 88. On Rein, see Brandt, My Road to Berlin, pp. 79-80.

23. The British also had ULTRA intelligence on the movements of the Tirpitz. After several unsuccessful British attacks, the battleship was finally sunk in November 1944 with the loss of 1,204 lives.

24. TERENTY was the Czech Communist journalist Walter Taube. Mitrokhin’s note identifies VANYA as Vanek, a former Czech intelligence officer now working for the British. It is unclear whether “Vanek” is a forename or surname (k-26, 88).

25. k-26, 88.

26. k-26, 88.

27. k-26, 86.

28. Colitt, Spy Master, p. 97.

29. Brandt, People and Politics, pp. 47-8.

30. Operations against major foreign statesmen normally required the approval of the political leadership.

31. k-26, 88.

32. Mitrokhin’s notes on Brandt’s file go only to 1962. They do, however, include later references to Brandt from other files.

33. Brandt, People and Politics, pp. 102-3. Abrasimov, later accused of behaving like a Soviet pro-consul, was ambassador in East Berlin.

34. Wolf, Man without a Face, ch. 9; Colitt, Spy Master, ch. 4; Murphy, Kondrashev and Bailey, Battleground Berlin, p. 300.

35. Probably the best study of Ostpolitik is Garton Ash, In Europe’s Name.

36. Wolf, Man without a Face, p. 156.

37. k-19, 248, 250.

38. Prittie, Velvet Chancellors, pp. 170-1.

39. Marshall, Willy Brandt, pp. 86-7.

40. k-2, 52.

41. Wolf, Spionagechef im geheimen Krieg, p. 261.

42. Marshall, Willy Brandt, pp. 88-90.

43. k-2, 52.

44. “Bank pay-in Slip Published in Bonn Bribes Scandal,” The Times (June 20, 1973). “Steiner Tells of Work as an Agent,” Daily Telegraph (August 8, 1973).

45. Wolf concludes that “it is impossible to establish whether [Steiner] was paid twice over for his services”—by Wienand as well as the HVA directly. Wolf, Spionagechef im geheimen Krieg, p. 261.

46. “Bonn Bribery Allegations ‘Not Proven,’” The Times (March 28, 1974).

47. Genscher, Erinnerungen, pp. 197-201.

48. Wolf, Man without a Face, pp. 157-65. Wolf identifies a number of boastful inaccuracies in Guillaume’s own account of his career.

49. Genscher, Erinnerungen, pp. 201-2.

50. Wolf, Man without a Face, pp. xi, 171-2.

51. Wolf, Man without a Face, p. 124.

52. Andrew and Gordievsky, KGB, pp. 238-40, 442-4, 456-7, 611.

53. The identity of Wolf’s first “Romeo spy,” codenamed FELIX, who began operations in the early 1950s, remains unknown. Wolf, Man without a Face, p. 124.

54. k-5, 30, 31.

55. k-5, 31.

56. Barron, KGB, pp. 198-9.

57. k-16, 139. The alias “Franz Becker” is not recorded by Mitrokhin, but was later revealed at Höke’s trial.

58. k-10, 56; k-16, 139.

59. k-10, 56; k-16, 139.

60. k-16, 65.

61. k-16, 139; k-5, 19.

62. k-16, 65.

63. k-16, 139; k-5, 19.

64. k-10, 56; k-16, 139.

65. RENATA was married to RYBACHEK, a Czech illegal based in Switzerland, who was also working for the KGB. k-16, 94, 139; k-12, 5; k-8, 25-6; k-2, 46, 84.