Markus Wolf. "The Man Without a Face" from the Stasi

Marcus Friedrich Wolf was called "the man without a face" by Western and overseas intelligence services, who for a long time unsuccessfully tried to get a photograph of the head of foreign intelligence of the GDR MGB. In fact, the legendary head of Main Directorate "A" never lost his face and did not change his principles and beliefs until the end of his life. From illegal prosecution in Germany in the early 1990s, he not only emerged victorious, but also managed to influence the overturning of court decisions in the cases of his colleagues, and organize the legal defense of Stasi agents who found themselves on trial abroad. Markus Wolf began his journey into history during the period of emigration to the USSR, when he realized the need to fight the brown plague. At the end of World War II, he created the GDR embassy in Moscow, and then the foreign intelligence service in Berlin. The author of the book, who personally knew Markus Wolf, during the period of intensified confrontation between the two antipodean blocs, coordinated communications between Soviet and German intelligence, which in April 1972 carried out a brilliant operation to fail in the German Bundestag a vote of no confidence in Chancellor Willy Brandt, who pursued a policy of rapprochement with the socialist countries. As a result, significant changes occurred in world politics: the famous Helsinki Act of 1975 was signed, the GDR was accepted as a member of the UN, and the threat of nuclear confrontation was eliminated.