Heidenreich, Ronny Die DDR-Spionage des BND. Von den Anfängen bis zum Mauerbau

The GDR espionage is generally regarded as the flagship of the Federal Intelligence Service. Its documents, which have now been thoroughly analysed for the first time, show how far there was a gap between claims and reality. After a brief period of high activity, the GDR intelligence of the BND clearly fell behind the other Western and West German services - even before the Wall was built. What's more, the KGB succeeded in manipulating the BND's reporting to the German government at crucial points. Ronny Heidenreich examines the practice and yield of Pullach's GDR espionage and shows how the BND covered up its weaknesses vis-à-vis the public and its own employees with staged successes.

Born in 1980, studied modern and contemporary history, political science and Eastern European studies in Leipzig and Berlin; 2007 - 2009 staff member of the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship; 2009 - 2011 research assistant at the Berlin Wall Memorial; 2007 - 2009 staff member of the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship. Researcher at the Berlin Wall Memorial; since 2011 Researcher at the Independent Historians' Commission. Since 2011, research assistant at the Independent Historical Commission for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service.