Markus Wolf Quotes

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• One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome…
• The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in…
• I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by…
• There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for,…
• I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful…
• Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all…
• Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs…
• At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies…
• What we wanted from an agent depended on what he brought in.
• We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have said unfortunately in former years,…
• You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure…

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