"You can't do anything if a person says……" — Markus Wolf
"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 is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with."
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11 Quotes by Markus Wolf
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One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while…
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The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position…
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I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents…
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There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or…
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I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something…
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Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you…
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Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been…
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At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has,…
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What we wanted from an agent depended on what he brought in.
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We planted bugs, microphones, in premises which interested us in the West. We weren't too successful - I would have…
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