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Man without a face
the autobiography of communism's greatest spymaster
By Wolf, Markus & McElvoy, Anne
- ISBN
- 978-0-81296-394-6
- Publisher
- New York : Times Books, c1997.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 15, 1997
East Germany had one of the most successful intelligence services of the Communist bloc, headed by the notorious Wolf, rumored to be the model for John le Carre's evil Karla. Wolf (b. 1923) was trained by the Comintern in the 1930s as a Soviet agent after fleeing Hitler, and from 1952 to 1987 he led the foreign intelligence arm of the East German secret police (Stasi). In this memoir, he...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
