Item BRINK OF APOCALYPSE 3/9 - Interview with Werner Grossman, First Deputy to General Markus Wolf, German Democratic Republic (GDR) Intelligence, [2007]

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BRINK OF APOCALYPSE 3/9

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Interview with Werner Grossman, First Deputy to General Markus Wolf, German Democratic Republic (GDR) Intelligence, [2007]

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Typescript transcript of interview with Werner Grossman, First Deputy to General Markus Wolf. Subjects include his role in the events of autumn 1983; the period of high tension between East and West; German Democratic Republic agents in the West; Operation RYAN, an operation of the USSR Intelligence Services initiated to prevent an atomic first strike against the Warsaw-Pact; USSRs fears of a nuclear attack; General Vladimir Kryuchkov , Head of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti/Committee for State Security (KGB); HVA as a source for the KGB; the knowledge of US Missiles in Federal Republic of Germany; the importance of Rainer Rupp, Nato Spy known as “Topaz”; Able Archer and NATO. 7pp

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