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    Head of the East German foreign intelligence service during the Cold War

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    Markus Johannes Wolf (19 January 1923 – 9 November 2006), also known as Mischa, [1] was head of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance ( Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung ), the foreign intelligence division of East Germany 's Ministry for State Security ( Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, abbr. MfS, commonly known as the Stasi ).

  2. Nov 10, 2006 · Markus Wolf was born in 1923 in Hechingen, in southwest Germany. His father, Friedrich Wolf, a Jew, was a doctor, writer and member of the Communist Party of Germany.

  3. Nov 9, 2006 · Markus Wolf, the former head of communist East Germany's feared spy service, has died at age 83. He was the mastermind of some of the Cold War's most successful intelligence operations. For most ...

  4. Nov 10, 2006 · Nov. 10, 2006 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. WARSAW —. Markus Wolf, the spymaster who epitomized Cold War espionage as head of the brutal and cleverly inventive East German foreign intelligence ...

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  5. Nov 9, 2006 · Markus Wolf, the "man without a face" who outwitted the West as communist East Germany's long-serving spymaster, died Thursday. He was 83. Wolf died in his apartment in Berlin, his stepdaughter ...

  6. Oct 9, 2006 · FRANKFURT — Markus Wolf, the elusive spy master of Communist East Germany whose feats of espionage were the stuff of Cold War legend, died Thursday.He was 83. Known as "the man without a face ...

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  8. Nov 13, 2006 · Markus Wolf, the former East German spy chief who bedeviled Western intelligence services and developed an interest in his Jewish roots late in life, died Nov. 9 at age 83.

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