Register of the John O. Koehler papers
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Title: John O. Koehler papers
Date (inclusive): 1934-2008
Collection Number: 2001C75
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In
German
and English
Physical Description:
74 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 3 card file boxes
(31.1 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, news dispatches and news stories, photocopies of East
German
secret police documents, photocopies of United States government documents, post-reunification
German
governmental reports, clippings, other printed matter, photographs, sound recordings, and video tapes, relating to political
conditions in Germany, the East
German
secret police, the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, and Soviet espionage within the Catholic Church. In part,
used as research material for the books by J. O. Koehler,
Stasi: The Untold Story of the East
German
Secret Police
(Boulder, Colo., 1999), and
Spies in the Vatican: The Soviet Union's War against the Catholic Church (2009).
Creator:
Koehler, John O.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2001
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], John O. Koehler papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Location of Originals
This collection contains photocopies of documents in the Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes
der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (BStU) and the United States National Archives and Records Administration.
Abbreviation |
Full Name (in
German
)
|
English equivalent |
BF |
Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, Abteilung
Bildung und Forschung
|
Research and education department of the Federal Commission for the Papers of the State Security Service of the former
German
Democratic Republic
|
BfgA |
Bundesanstalt für gesamtdeutsche Aufgaben |
Federal Institute for pan-
German
Tasks
|
BRD |
Bundesrepublik Deutschland |
Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) |
BStU |
Die Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik |
Federal Commission for the Records of the State Security Service of the former
German
Democratic Republic
|
DDR |
Deutsche Demokratische Republik |
German
Democratic Republic (GDR)
|
DKP |
Deutsche Kommunistische Partei |
German
Communist Party
|
HA I |
Hauptabteilung I |
Chief Department I (Army) |
HA II |
Hauptabteilung II |
Chief Department II (Counterintelligence) |
HA III |
Hauptabteilung III |
Chief Department III (Technology and Radio) |
HA V |
Hauptabteilung V |
Chief Department V (Culture, Education) |
HA VII |
Hauptabteilung VII |
Chief Department VII (Prisons) |
HA XVIII |
Hauptabteilung XVIII |
Chief Department XVIII (Economy/Industry) |
HA XX |
Hauptabteilung XX |
Chief Department XX (Dissidents and Culture) |
HA XXII |
Hauptabteilung XXII |
Chief Department XXII (Terrorism) |
HVA |
Hauptverwaltung für Aufklärung |
Chief Administration for Intelligence (Foreign espionage) |
IM |
Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter |
Unofficial collaborater |
IMB |
Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter - Blickfeld |
Senior IM with close contact to the target |
Koko |
Komerzielle Koordinierung |
Commercial Coordination (department responsible for acquiring western currency and products) |
MfS |
Ministerium für Staatssicherheit |
Ministry for State Security (Stasi) |
NVA |
Nationale Volksarmee |
National People's Army |
OibE |
Offizier im besonderen Einsatz |
Officer in special service |
ZAIG |
Zentrale Auswertungs- und Informationsgruppe |
Central evaluation and information group |
ZERV |
Zentrale Ermittlungsstelle Regierungs- und Vereinigungskriminalität |
Center for discovery of governmental and reunification crimes |
Biographical Note
June 11, 1930 |
Born, Dresden, Germany |
1950-1951 |
Freelance newsman for McGraw Hill Publications, Overseas Weekly, and Associated Press in Germany. |
1951-1952 |
Sub-editor and reporter for Frankfurt bureau of Reuters. |
1952 |
Reporter for The Canadian Press, Vancouver, WA. |
1952-1953 |
Reporter for United Press Association and British United Press, covering Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Seattle. |
1953-1954 |
Covered, wrote and edited local news for the Anacortes American (Washington). |
1954-1957 |
Served in the United States Army and United States Army Reserve, entering the Army as a corporal and holding the rank of captain
when discharged. Assignments included intelligence collection, counter intelligence, criminal investigation, and public affairs.
|
1957 |
Concurrent with Army service, reporter and editor for United Press Association in Phoenix, AZ. |
1957-1985 |
AP Correspondent for 28 years, served as head of bureau in Bonn (1959-1962), chief correspondent in Berlin (1962-1965), and
bureau chief for New Jersey (1965-1967). Also serves as deputy director and general manager for Personnel, and assistant general
manager and managing director for the World Services Division at Associated Press headquarters in New York.
|
March 1987 |
Assistant to the President and Director of Communications under Ronald Reagan. |
1999 |
Stasi: the Untold Story of the East
German
Secret Police
is published by Westview Press.
|
July 2009 |
Spies in the Vatican: the Soviet Union's War Against the Catholic Church is published by Perseus Books Group.
|
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection documents John Koehler's career as a journalist, intelligence officer, and writer; it consists of correspondence,
news stories, photocopies of East
German
and United States government documents, post-reunification
German
governmental reports, clippings, printed matter, photographs, sound recordings, and videotapes. Includes papers related to
the Associated Press, the U.S. Army, political conditions in Germany, espionage, and especially the East
German
secret police. The bulk of the papers were collected by Koehler while researching and writing his book, entitled
Stasi: The Untold Story of the East
German
Secret Police.
The Professional Files series includes news stories written by Koehler for the Associated Press (AP) and other news organizations,
many of them dating from his time as chief correspondent in Berlin, and it also includes speeches and lectures given about
journalism. Additionally, the Professional Files contain a small amount of material relating to the U.S. Army, Koehler's consulting
company, and his work as President Reagan's communications director. The Correspondence series records Koehler's duties at
the AP, particularly after he began working in the AP administrative offices in the United States. The Photographs series
is mainly composed of AP photographs from Koehler's time as a reporter, depicting escapes from East Germany as well as photographs
of Koehler himself.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into four series: Professional Files, 1946-1989; Correspondence, 1960-1997; Photographs, 1960-1979;
and Stasi Research Materials, 1931-2002. The Stasi Research Material series is further divided into five subseries:
German
Democratic Republic State Security Ministry files, 1931-1993 [bulk 1952-1989]; Federal Republic of Germany reports, 1990-1998;
United States government documents, 1943-1997; Interviews and broadcasts, 1991-1997; Subject Files, 1931-2002.
Related Material
Jürgen Perduss collection, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
GDR Oral History Project interviews, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Heinrich Bortfeldt interviews, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Christian Joppke papers, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands miscellaneous records, Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes
Video tapes
Secret service -- Soviet Union
Journalists
Espionage, Russian
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1945-1990
Secret service -- Germany (East)
Espionage, East
German
Catholic Church
John Paul, Pope, II, 1920-2005
Germany (East). Ministerium für Staatssicherheit
Professional Files
1946-1989
Scope and Contents note
Consists of correspondence, clippings, notes, and news stories relating to Koehler's work for the U.S. Army, the Associated
Press (AP), for his consulting company, and as President Reagan's communications director. Bulk of the series consists of
clippings of news stories written by Koehler in the 1950s and 1960s. Arranged in chronological order.
box 1, folder 3
Reuters Stories
1951
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs
box 1, folder 5
Army lesson plans
1951-1961
box 1, folder 7-8
Stories
1952-1959
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs
box 1, folder 10
Stories
1952-1967
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs
box 1, folder 11
Army publications
1955-1958
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs
box 2, folder 2
Army Intelligence School
1957
box 2, folder 4-5
Stories
1958-1971
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs
box 2, folder 8
Khrushchev visit to Vienna
1960
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs
box 3, folder 2
Stories - Russia
1960-1967
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs
box 4, folder 4
Army Staff College lecture
1969-1970
box 4, folder 9
Stories - Watergate
1973,
box 58
AP news dispatch roll
1975
box 51, folder 1
International Narcotic Enforcement Officers Association membership certificate
1986
box 4, folder 13
Berlin slide show
undated
Correspondence
1960-1997
Scope and Contents note
Includes business and personal correspondence documenting Koehler's work as a journalist and writer. Correspondence labeled
personal contains both incoming and outgoing letters and documents Koehler's work managing the AP in the Personnel and World
Service departments, his travels and attendance at social functions, discussions with fellow journalists, the inception of
his book research. Also includes letters from victims of the Stasi. Arranged in chronological order.
box 5, folder 1
Personal
1960-1966
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs
box 7, folder 1
AP
1981-1982
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs
box 8, folder 1-2
Stasi Victims
1991-1997
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs
box 8, folder 3
Stasi Victims - Hugo Kästner
1992-1996
box 8, folder 4
Stasi Victims - Günther Müller
1992-1997
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs
box 8, folder 5
Stasi Victims - Horst Hölig
1993-1996
box 8, folder 6
Stasi Victims - Hohenschönhausen Memorial, 1995
1995
box 8, folder 7
Stasi Victims - Günther Becker
1995
box 8, folder 8
Stasi Victims - Burkhard Günther
1995
box 8, folder 9
Stasi Victims - Gottfried Gläser
1995-1996
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs
box 8, folder 10
Stasi Victims - Erika Holsten-Warnke
1995-1996
box 8, folder 11
Stasi Victims - Heinz Kuhn
1995-1996
box 8, folder 12
Stasi Victims - Helga and Günther Jahn
1995-1997
Photographs
1960-1979
Scope and Contents note
Consists of photographs and negatives relating to Koehler's work for the Associated Press and on his research. Includes photographs
of the Berlin Wall, escapes from East Germany, and of Koehler himself in action as a reporter. Many of the photographs are
personal copies of AP photographs. Arranged in chronological order.
box 9, folder 4-6
Berlin Wall and escapes
1960-1965
box 9, folder 7
Berlin photographic negatives
1961
Stasi Research Material
1931-2002
East
German
State Security Ministry Files
1931-1997, [bulk 1952-1989]
Physical Description: 4.5 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
Photocopies of documents produced by the East
German
Ministry for State Security (Stasi). Original documents are held by the Bundesbeauftragte für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes
der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (BStU). Four broad topics (identified by the archivist) are present in the
files: international espionage and counterespionage, general Stasi operations, surveillance and repression, and terrorism.
Arrangement note
Koehler's subject-oriented folder titles and thematic organization have been maintained, though folders with similar titles
have been grouped to aid research. Where folder titles did not already exist, the archivist has supplied the Stasi Chief Department
(Hauptabteilung) that produced the records, document number and a brief description of their contents.
International Espionage and Counterespionage
box 18, folder 2
HVA (Intercepted U.S. Transmissions)
1987
box 18, folder 3
Hauptabteilung III (U.S. Espionage)
1987
box 18, folder 5
Recruiting CIA agents
undated
box 18, folder 8
U.S. citizen arrested for espionage
1967
box 18, folder 10
Analysis of political operative responsibilities
1972
box 18, folder 12
Analysis of U.S. covert operations
1972
box 18, folder 13
U.S. Military visits
1950-1957
box 18, folder 14
Analysis of U.S. economic strategy
1989
box 19, folder 1-2
Analysis of U.S. policy
1972-1988
box 19, folder 3
Western military intelligence activities
1989
box 19, folder 5
U.S. objectives in Berlin
unitdate
box 19, folder 6
U.S.-West
German
economic ties
1966
box 19, folder 7
Hauptabteilung II (Counterespionage)
1966
box 19, folder 8
Counterespionage Training Manual
1988
box 19, folder 9-11
Counterespionage
1957-1959
box 19, folder 12-14
Counterespionage - Tiedke defection
1988
box 20, folder 1
Latin America agent reports
1986
box 20, folder 3
Hauptabteilung XVIII number 119 (Cuba)
1981-1985
box 21, folder 7
Anti-Soviet Emigrants
1956-1959
box 21, folder 8
Hauptabteilung XVIII number 3463 (Brother Organizations)
1983
box 21, folder 9
Hauptabteilung XVIII number 11488 (Brother Organizations)
1985-1989
box 21, folder 10-12
Cooperating with KGB
1981-1989
box 21, folder 13
Cooperative agreements (USSR and Hungary)
1981-1986
box 22, folder 2
Relationship with KGB
undated
box 22, folder 4
Offiziere im besonderen Einsatz (OibE)
1986
box 22, folder 5
Hauptabteilung II/19 number 14225 (Wolfgang Seifert)
1972-1989
box 22, folder 6
Hauptabteilung XX (Surveillance and Informants' Reports)
1987-1989
box 22, folder 7
Hauptabteilung II and XX (Surveillance and Informants' reports)
1986-1989
Surveillance and Repression
box 23, folder 3-7
Hauptabteilung XX number 1386 (Psychiatry)
1976-1989
box 23, folder 8
Electronic surveillance
1979-1989
box 23, folder 9
Operation Stoerenfried
1986-1989
box 23, folder 10
Recruiting informants
1979
box 23, folder 11-12
Dr. Werner Teske
1979-1981
box 24, folder 1-2
Dr. Werner Teske
1980-1981
box 24, folder 3
Solidarity Committee
1969-1989
box 24, folder 5-6
Surveillance of dissidents
1989
box 24, folder 7-9
Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter files
1978-1989
box 24, folder 10-11
Barczatis and Laurenz executions
1952-1955
box 25, folder 1-5
Barczatis and Laurenz executions
1955
box 25, folder 6-9
AP Surveillance
1977-1989
box 26, folder 1-5
AP Surveillance
1985-1989
box 26, folder 6-7
AP Surveillance - Reimold
1979-1988
box 26, folder 8
AP Surveillance - Schwelz
1983-1986
box 27, folder 1-2
AP Surveillance - Smith, Susan
1978-1989
box 27, folder 4-8
Linse kidnapping and execution
1946-1984
box 27, folder 9
Hauptabteilung VIII, Abteilung XX (Horst Erdmann)
1969-1989
box 27, folder 10
Lothar Fügemann (IM Flamme)
1969-1970
1997
box 27, folder 11
Abteilung VI (Leipzig IM Forschung)
1986-1988
box 28, folder 1-5
IM Akte A/Teil II (Leipzig Informants' Reports)
1977-1989
box 28, folder 6
Abteilung XXII (IMB Feld)
1985-1989
box 28, folder 7
Ronald Reagan's Stasi dossier
1980-1986
box 28, folder 8
Hauptabteilung XVIII no.11612 (Foreign Visitors)
1981
box 28, folder 9
Hauptabteilung VIII order 6/78 (Political Operatives)
1978
box 28, folder 10
Hauptabteilung VIII (Foreign Publishers)
1979
box 28, folder 11
Hauptabteilung VI no. C118/81 (Analysis of Political Operations)
1981
box 29, folder 4
Terror Group Separat
1984
Federal Republic of Germany Files
1990-1998
Physical Description: 4.59 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
Reports, transcripts, press releases, and scholarly articles produced in post-reunification Germany, primarily by the government.
Includes articles regarding the process of reunification. Primarily documents the criminal investigation of Stasi activities
and resulting trials. Also includes reports summarizing East
German
government structure and methodology. The agency producing the report has been noted in parenthesis in many cases.
Arrangement note
Arranged chronologically.
box 29, folder 7
Dokumentation zum Staatsicherheitsdienst der ehemaligen DDR (BfGA)
1990
box 29, folder 8-10
Dokumentation zur politischen Justiz in der ehemaligen DDR und Aufarbeitung ihrer Vergangenheit(BfgA)
1991
box 30, folder 1
Zweiter Teilbericht des 1. Untersuchungsausschusses mit einer Darstellung der zum Bereich Kommerzielle Koordinierung gehörenden
Unternehmen
1992
box 30, folder 2-8
Erste Beschlußempfehlung (Artikel 44 des Grundgesetzes)
1992
box 31, folder 1-2
Die Inoffiziellen Mitarbeiter (BStU)
1992
box 31, folder 6
Indictment of Wagenbreth, Mutz, Rabe, and Michels
1993
box 32, folder 1-3
Indictment of Wagenbreth, Mutz, Rabe, and Michels
1993
box 32, folder 4
Tätigkeitsberichte des BStU
1993-1997
box 32, folder 5
Das Wörterbuch der Staatssicherheit (BF no. 1/93)
1993
box 32, folder 6
Analysen und Berichte: Zu Wahrnehmung und Interpretation des Rechtsextremismus in der DDR durch das MfS (BF no.1/93)
1993
box 32, folder 7
Dokumente: Die Organisationsstruktur des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit (BF)
1993
box 33, folder 1
Analysen und Berichte: Das Zusammenspiel von Staatssicherheitsdienst und SED nach der Selbstverbrennung des Pfarrers Oskar
Brüsewitz aus Rippicha am 18. August 1976 (BF no. 2/93)
1993
box 33, folder 2
IM Statistik (BF no. 3/93)
1993
box 33, folder 3
Zweiter Zwischenbericht der Unabhängigen Kommission zur Überprüfung des Vermögens der Parteien und Massenorganisationen der
DDR
1993
box 34, folder 5-6
Beschlußempfehlung
1993-1994
box 34, folder 7-9
Beschlußempfehlung und Bericht
1994
box 35, folder 1-2
Beschlußempfehlung und Bericht
1994
box 35, folder 3-6
Beschlußempfehlung und Bericht - Anhangband
1994
box 35, folder 7-11
Beschlußempfehlung und Bericht - Anlageband 1
1994
box 36, folder 1-2
Beschlußempfehlung und Bericht - Anlageband 1
1994
box 36, folder 3-9
Beschlußempfehlung und Bericht - Anlageband 2
1994
box 36, folder 10-12
Beschlußempfehlung und Bericht - Anlageband 3
1994
box 37, folder 1-2
Beschlußempfehlung und Bericht - Anlageband 3
1994
box 37, folder 3
Attorney General press releases
1991-1994
box 37, folder 4
Bericht der Enquete-Kommission "Aufarbeitung von Geschichte und Folgen der SED-Diktatur in Deutschland,"
1994
box 37, folder 5
Zentrale Ermittlungsstelle Regierungs- und Vereinigungskriminalität (ZERV) situation report
1994
box 37, folder 6
Offiziere im besonderen Einsatz List
1994
box 37, folder 7
Criminal Investigations
1994
box 37, folder 8
Dokumente: MfS und Leistungssport (BF no. 1/1994)
1994
box 37, folder 9
Die Hauptamtlichen 1962 (BF no. 1/94)
1994
box 37, folder 10
Analyse und Berichte: Die Niederschlagung des Prager Frühlings (BF no. 1/94)
1994
box 37, folder 11
BF informiert: Unter Nutzung der Angst (BF no. 2/1994)
1994
box 37, folder 12
BF informiert: Zu Struktur, Charakter und Bedeutung der Unterlagen des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit (BF no.3/94)
1994
box 38, folder 1
BF informiert: Bibliographie zum Staatssicherheitsdienst der DDR (BF no. 4/1994)
1994
box 38, folder 2
BF informiert: Entmachtung und Verfall des Staatssicherheit ein Kapitel aus dem Spätherbst 1989 (BF no. 5/1994)
1994
box 38, folder 3
Analysen und Berichte: Vorbereitung auf den Tag X die geplanten Isolierungslager des MfS (BF no.1/95)
1995
box 38, folder 4
BF informiert: Kurs auf die entwickelte Diktatur Die Neuausrichtung des Staatssicherheitsdienstes 1956/57 (BF)
1995
box 38, folder 5-7
Anatomie der Staatssicherheit
1995
box 38, folder 8
Zentrale Ermittlungsstelle Regierungs- und Vereinigungskriminalität (ZERV)
1995-1996
box 38, folder 9
Der Beitrag des Arbeitsgebietes I der DDR-Kriminalpolizei zur politischen Überwachung und Repression
1996
box 38, folder 10
BF informiert: "Gegen das Volk kann nichts mehr entschieden werden." MfS und SED im Bezirk Neubrandenburg (BF no. 12)
1996
box 38, folder 11
BF informiert: "Unsere Nerven lagen allmählich blank." MfS und SED in Halle (BF no.13)
1996
box 38, folder 12
BF informiert: Partisanen des Kalten Krieges (BF no. 14)
1996
box 38, folder 13
BF informiert: "Hat nicht wenigstens die Stasi die Stimmung im Lande gekannt?" MfS und SED im Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt (BF no.
19)
1997
box 39, folder 1-4
Investigation of DDR Government crimes
1990-1998
United States Government Documents
1943-1997.
Physical Description: 1.67 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
Correspondence, reports, and photocopies obtained via FOIA request from various U.S. government agencies including the Army,
Air Force, Navy, FBI and CIA. Includes documents regarding the Stasi, terrorism, defectors, and the Cold War.
Arrangement note
Arranged chronologically.
box 40, folder 1-2
Communist infiltration of U.S. Military
1943-1955
box 40, folder 3
CIC - NKVD Liaison
1945-1953
box 40, folder 6-7
Defectors - Stephen Wechsler
1952-1953
box 40, folder 8
U.S. Penetration of East
German
Government
1953
box 40, folder 9-13
Defectors - Robert Blevens
1953-1995
box 41, folder 1-9
Defectors from the U.S. Army
1956-1995
box 42, folder 1
International Terrorism in 1978,
1979
box 42, folder 2
Reports on terrorism
1982-1983
box 42, folder 3
Report of the Vice President's Task Force on Combatting Terrorism
1986
box 42, folder 4
Senate Intelligence reports
1986-1988
box 42, folder 8
Recent espionage cases
1990
box 42, folder 9
Senate Intelligence reports
1990-1994
box 42, folder 10
U.S. Military defectors to East Germany
1992
box 42, folder 11
Americans Who Spied Against their Country since World War II
1992
box 42, folder 12
JPRS Report: Terrorism
1994
box 43, folder 1
Senate Intelligence Report - Aldrich Ames
1994
box 43, folder 2-5
Conference on Cold War Military Records and History
1994
box 43, folder 6-7
Criminal Complaint against James Michael Clark
1997
box 43, folder 8
East
German
agents
undated
Interviews and Broadcasts
1990-1997
Physical Description: 1.5 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
Includes transcripts, audiotapes and videotapes regarding the Stasi. Videotapes include news broadcasts and documentaries
about the Stasi and Erich Mielke. Audiotapes record interviews conducted by Koehler in the course of his research. Interviewees
include Stasi victims, former officers,
German
government officials, and Joachim Gauck.
Arrangement note
Arranged in chronological order.
box 44, folder 1-5
Rainer Wiegand Transcript
1991 February
box 44, folder 6
Rainer Wiegand Transcript
1991-1996
box 44, folder 7
Dissident Interviews - Horst Erdmann
1962-1994.
Scope and Contents note
Includes photographs
box 44, folder 8-9
Dissident Interviews - Horst Erdmann
1964-1997
box 44, folder 10
Dissident Interviews - Peter Gauweiler, Ralf Hirsch, Simon Wiesenthal, Heiner Sauer, and Joachim Gauck
1991
box 44, folder 11
Transcripts - Peter Gauweiler, Rupert Scholz, Heiner Sauer, Ralf Hirsch, and Joachim Gauck
1991
box 44, folder 12
Heinz Busch Transcript
1992 July
box 45
Interview with Colonel Rainer Wiegand on personnel and kidnapping, audiocassette
1991 February 5
Access
Use copy reference number: 2001c75_a_0012607
box 45
Interview with Colonel Rainer Wiegand on terrorism, audiocassette
1991 February 7
Access
Use copy reference number: 2001c75_a_0012628
box 45
Interview with Colonel Rainer Wiegand on kidnapping, top secret cases and mysterious deaths, audiocassette
1991 February 6
Access
Use copy reference number: 2001c75_a_0012621
box 45
Interview with Colonel Wiegand on Pfotenhauer murder and international terrorism, audiocassette
1991 February 7
Access
Use copy reference number: 2001c75_a_0012632
box 45
Interview with Colonel Rainer Wiegand on terrorism and murder, audiocassette
1991 February 7
Access
Use copy reference number: 2001c75_a_0012648
box 45
Interview with dissident Ralf Hirsch, audiocassette
1991 September 22
Access
Use copy reference number: 2001c75_a_0012649
box 45
Interviews with Horst Erdmann and Colonel Wolfgang Koch, audiocassette
1991 September
Access
Use copy reference number: 2001c75_a_0012651
box 45
Interviews with Simon Wiesenthal, Prosecutor Heiner Sauer, and Ruediger Knechtel, audiocassette
1991 October
Access
Use copy reference number: 2001c75_a_0012652
box 45
Interview with former Stasi Lieutenant Roland Weihrich and Discussion between victims and Stasi officers, audiocassette
1991 October
Access
Use copy reference number: 2001c75_a_0012699
box 45
Interviews with Karl Grossman and Josef Kneifel, audiocassette
1991 October
Access
Use copy reference number: 2001c75_a_0012655
box 45
Interview with Karl Grossman, audiocassette
1991 November
Access
Use copy reference number: 2001c75_a_0012664
box 45
Interviews with Colonel Manfred Kleinpeter and Karl Grossman on HVA, audiocassette
1991-1994
Access
Use copy reference number: 2001c75_a_0012665
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Interview with Colonel Heinz Busch on HVA, audiocassette
1992 February 28
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Interview with Colonel Franz Ross, audiocassette
1992 July
Scope and Contents
Koehler conducted this interview over the telephone. At times the sound quality is poor due to telephone noise and tape hiss
from the cassette.
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Interviews with Dr. Wagner and Dr. William Stearman, audiocassette
1997 June
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Interview with Captain Schachtschneider, audiocassette
undated
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Interview with Professor Jakob Segal, audiocassette
undated
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Interview with Colonel Rainer Wiegand on Labelle bombing and CIA recruitment attempt, audiocassette
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Interview with Colonel Rainer Wiegand on CIA recruitment and operations against US Embassy, audiocassette
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Interview with Colonel Rainer Wiegand on counterintelligence, audiocassette
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Interviews with Professor Rupert Scholz, constitutional expert and Horst Erdmann, former Stasi prisoner, audiocassette
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Interviews with Peter Gauweiler and Horst Erdman, audiocassette
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Interview with Joachim Gauck and discussion between victims and Stasi officers, audiocassette
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Interviews with Colonel Rainer Wiegand and Colonel A. Teferry, microcassette
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Stasi, 3 videocassettes
undated
Scope and Contents note
West
German
documentary made for training domestic counterintelligence officers
box 46
Hall Sting, videocassette
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Hall Incident news reports, videocassette
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Hall Case, videocassette
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Mielke, videocassette
undated
Scope and Contents note
German
documentary
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Mielke, 2 videocassettes
undated
Scope and Contents note
German
format
Subject Files
1931-2002
Physical Description: 7.71 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings, notes, and printed material related to Koehler's research. Documents East
German
repression of its citizens, terrorism, counterintelligence, international relations, and dissidents. Several broad topics
(identified by the archivist) are present in the files: international espionage and counterespionage, general Stasi operations,
surveillance and repression, terrorism, reunification, and printed materials.
Arrangement note
Original subject order was maintained during processing, though folders with similar titles have been grouped to aid research.
box 10, folder 5
MfS internal life
1957-1992
box 10, folder 9-12
Koko (Commercial Coordination)
1951-1997
box 10, folder 13
Communist money
1993-1996
box 11, folder 1
Technical service
1990-1996
box 11, folder 2
German
character traits - communist resurgence
1991-1994
box 11, folder 4-6
Erich Mielke indictment
1934
box 12, folder 3-7
Unsorted clippings
1944-1997
International Espionage and Counterespionage
box 12, folder 10
HVA - disinformation and forgeries
1965-1994
box 12, folder 11-12
Miscellaneous MfS/Wolf
1974-1997
box 13, folder 4
Markus Wolf trial
1993-1997
box 13, folder 5-6
Kidnap/alligator case
1951-1996
box 13, folder 9-10
OiBEs (Deep Cover Agents)
1989-1997
box 13, folder 15
Invasion of West Germany - Stasi's role
1960
box 13, folder 16
Invasion of West Berlin
1992-1995
box 14, folder 11
Stasi in West Germany
1959-1991
box 14, folder 12-13
Espionage versus West Germany
1960-1997
box 15, folder 1-3
Espionage versus West Germany
1961-1996
box 15, folder 4-9
Günther Guillaume
1955-1995
box 16, folder 1
Western services
1967-1994
box 16, folder 4
Espionage versus NATO
1993
box 16, folder 5-9
Espionage against the U.S.
1993
box 16, folder 10
Africa analyses
1991-1997
box 16, folder 11
Africa and Latin America
1980-1990
box 17, folder 8
Espionage - Carney and Thompson
1965-1992
Surveillance and Repression
box 47, folder 10
Wiegand paper on informants
undated
box 47, folder 11
Concentration camps
1984-1993
box 47, folder 12
DKP - secret army
1990-1996
box 47, folder 17-18
Nazis and Neo-Nazis
1946-1992
box 48, folder 1
CharitÉ Hospital
1990-1991
box 48, folder 4
Dissidents - Jürgen Fuchs
1991-1995
box 48, folder 7
Opposition and victims' groups
1993-1997
box 48, folder 8
Electronic surveillance
1976-1987
box 48, folder 9
Surveillance of politicians
1991-1992
box 48, folder 12-13
Escapes - Berlin Wall
1961-1965
box 49, folder 3-4
Murder/Executions
1961-1997
box 49, folder 5
Scheithauer Murder
1963-1991
box 50, folder 2-4
Red Army Faction
1985-1997
box 50, folder 5-6
International terrorism
1979-1991
box 52, folder 5-6
Reunification and politics
1990-1997
box 53, folder 10
Retribution/Spitzel
1990-1996
box 54, folder 4
Revenge and trials
1991-1997
box 54, folder 5
Opening Stasi files
1991-1996
box 54, folder 8
Western European Union
Brief on the Berlin Question,
1961
box 54, folder 9
Assorted pamphlets
1971-1995
box 54, folder 10
International Security Review,
1982
box 54, folder 11-15
Freiheitsglocke,
1985-1990
box 55, folder 1-6
Freiheitsglocke,
1991-1997
box 55, folder 7-8
Kalter Krieg als antikommunistischer Widerstand,
1987
box 55, folder 9
Combatting Terrorism: A Matter of Leverage,
1986
box 55, folder 10
Berliner Illustrierte,
1989
box 56, folder 5
Dresden by Hans Kromer
1990
box 56, folder 6
Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte,
1990-1993
box 56, folder 7
Conference on European Security and Cooperation,
1990
box 56, folder 11-14
Cold War International History Project
Bulletin,
1992-1997
box 57, folder 1
Ulbricht and the Concrete "Rose,"
1993
box 57, folder 2
News of Intelligence and Counterintelligence,
1993
Scope and Contents note
In Russian
box 57, folder 3
Social Democrats as Victims in the Fight against the Red Dictatorship,
1994
box 57, folder 4-5
Der Stacheldraht,
1994-1997
box 57, folder 7
Mauern-Gitter-Stacheldraht,
1996
box 57, folder 8
Compromise, Collaboration, and Betrayal: the Legacy of the Czech Secret Police Cadre,
1997
box 57, folder 9
Initiativgruppe Lager Mühlberg
1997
box 57, folder 10
Hilferufe von drüben,
1997
box 57, folder 11
Einsatzkommandos an der unsichtbaren Front,
1999
box 57, folder 12
Die Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem Ministerium für Staatssicherheit der DDR (MfS) und dem Ministerium des Innern Kubas (MININT),
2002