East German intelligence and Ireland, 1949–90 by Jerome de Wiel

Author:Jerome de Wiel [de Wiel, Jerome]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2015-01-31T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 Wolf & McElvoy, Man without a Face, pp. 51, 91.

2 D. Porch, The French Secret Services: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War (London: Macmillan, 1996), pp. 66–7.

3 BStU, MfS-ZAIG, nos. 10436, 10434, 10407, 10426, 10442, 10469, 28097, 10471, 10472 and 10444; ZAIG/1, no. 9553/1.

4 Wolf & McElvoy, Man without a Face, p. 110.

5 BStU, MfS-HA XXII, no. 18667, for press cuttings in IRA folder. See also nos. 6065/1 and 6065/2, for press cuttings on the events in Northern Ireland.

6 Ibid., MfS-HA III, no. 16717.

7 A. Schmidt, ‘“Aufklärung” des Funkverkehrs und der Telefongespräche in Westdeutschland-Die Hauptabteilung III’, in Knabe, West-Arbeit des MfS, pp. 212–14, 218, 222, 223.

8 Ibid., p. 213.

9 BStU, MfS-HA XX, no. 6819, ‘Statements by the Roman Catholic Bishops of Northern Ireland’, 1981–85.

10 Ibid., MfS-HA XXII, no. 6065/19, copy of Bradley’s ‘Die historischen Wurzeln der Guerilla und des Terrorismus in Nordirland’, 1976.

11 Ibid., MfS-HA XXII, no. 1145/7, extract of Wördemann’s Terrorismus, 1977.

12 O’Halpin, Defending Ireland, p. 312.

13 BStU, MfS-HA XXII, no. 1081, translation of Barril’s book.

14 Ibid., MfS-Sekr. Neiber, no. 3, ‘Profile terroristischer Gruppen’, 1 March 1989.

15 Gieseke, Der Mielke-Konzern, p. 319.

16 BStU, MfS-ZAIG, no. 6544, ‘Make Ireland a Nuclear Free Zone’, 1988.

17 B. de Graaf, ‘Stasi in the Polder: The East German Ministry for State Security and the Netherlands, 1977–89’, in B. de Graaf, B. de Jong & W. Platje (eds.), Battleground Western Europe: Intelligence Operations in Germany and the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century (Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis, 2007), pp. 196–204.

18 BStU, exact archival reference of this document is unknown. However, the title of this index card is ‘Irish CND’ and on the back of the card is mentioned ‘HVA 23.2.83 II/1/1’.

19 Ibid., MfS-HA II, no. 35670, ‘Irland’, no date but probably mid-1980s.

20 Ibid., MfS-HA XXII/8, no. 17219, ‘Zeittafel zur geschichtlichen Entwicklung der Beziehungen IRLAND/England und zu politischen Ereignissen’, 10 April 1986.

21 Ibid., MfS-HA XXII, no. 945, ‘Organisation Oranje-Bünde’; ‘Organisation Democratic Unionist Party’, no date but both information cards based on the Deutsche Volkszeitung, 18 July 1986.

22 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 9 October 2008.

23 The author is grateful to Mr Christian Schwack (BStU) for this information (e-mail exchange, 25 January 2013). For an explanation of the SIRA summary sheets, see Ziehm, ‘Elektronische Datenträger’, pp. 55–9.

24 Ziehm, ‘Elektronische Datenträger’, pp. 58–9.

25 BStU, F16/F22 HVA, Sira TdB 21, Rainer Frey, XV/1586/87, ‘Aribert’.

26 H. Müller-Enbergs, Hauptverwaltung A (HV A). Aufgaben – Strukturen – Quellen (MfS Handbuch). (Hg. BStU. Berlin 2011), pp. 116–17, at www.nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0292–9783942130158_010 (accessed 21 January 2013). Müller-Enbergs has written that ‘Aribert’s’ name is Jürgen Karl. But the photocopies of the original documents show that the name is Rainer Frey.

27 BStU, F16/F22 HVA, Sira TdB 21, F16/HVA AK, Siegfried Reichelt, XV/1508/75; XV/1093/62, ‘Weber’.

28 Müller-Enbergs, Hauptverwaltung A (HV A). Aufgaben – Strukturen – Quellen, pp. 200–1.

29 BStU, F16/F22 HVA, Sira TdB 21, Hans Weber, XV/192/73, ‘Schneider’.

30 Müller-Enbergs, Hauptverwaltung A (HV A). Aufgaben – Strukturen – Quellen, p. 201.

31 BStU, F16/F22 HVA, Sira TdB 21, HA II/AKG-VSH, Johanna Olbrich, alias Sonja Lüneburg.

32 Müller-Enbergs, Hauptverwaltung A (HV A). Aufgaben – Strukturen – Quellen, pp.

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