Die DDR-Spionage des BND

GDR espionage is generally regarded as the flagship of the Federal Intelligence Service. Its documents, which have now been thoroughly evaluated for the first time, show how far there was a gap between claims and reality. After a brief period of high activity, the GDR intelligence activities of the BND fell far behind those of the other Western and West German services - even before the Wall was built. What's more, the KGB succeeded in manipulating BND reporting to the German government at crucial points. Ronny Heidenreich examines the practice and yield of Pullach's GDR espionage and shows how the BND covered up its weaknesses vis-à-vis the public and its own employees with staged successes.
(Volume 11 of the publications of the Independent Historical Commission for Research into the History of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945-1968).