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Wolfgang Vogel (30 October 1925 – 21 August 2008) was a German lawyer active in East Germany at the time of the Cold War who had brokered some of the most famous swaps of spies or exchanges against ransom of political prisoners between the Soviet bloc and the West.
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Aug. 22, 2008. Wolfgang Vogel, a lawyer in Communist East Germany who became a wealthy man in the cold war by opening cracks in the Berlin Wall to swap captured spies and release political...
Aug. 24, 2008. Wolfgang Vogel, a lawyer in Communist East Germany who became a wealthy man in the Cold War by opening cracks in the Berlin Wall to swap captured spies and release political...
Licensed to practice law in both East and West Berlin, Vogel was the “point man” between East and West Germany. He was central to the exchanges of more than 150 spies from 23 countries and the last hope for many emigrants from East Germany. He earned millions in the process .
Aug 24, 2008 · Wolfgang Vogel, the shadowy lawyer who for years embodied the only channel of communication between the two states set up on German soil after the second world war, has died aged 82, some...
Aug 22, 2008 · Wolfgang Vogel, best known for his work trading the lives of captured spies and other political prisoners between the communist East and democratic West, has died at the age of 82.
Aug 27, 2008 · Wolfgang Vogel, 82, an East German lawyer who became the go-between for thousands of spy swaps and prisoner exchanges during the Cold War, died Aug. 21 at his home in the Bavarian city of ...
