Scarce Gaeret 605 DDR Export Helmet

[Todd Holmes]

Just a general question for members out there, did the NVA send any combatants to Angola? Or secretly to North Vietnam? I know they sent advisors and equipment.

[ogpsycho]

Just a general question for members out there, did the NVA send any combatants to Angola? Or secretly to North Vietnam? I know they sent advisors and equipment.

Yes they did.

I have one excample.

Kind regards
Basti

[vacollector]

Just a general question for members out there, did the NVA send any combatants to Angola? Or secretly to North Vietnam? I know they sent advisors and equipment.

They sent members of the KGdA, Stasi and NVA everywhere it seems. Cuba, El Salvador, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Libya, one fought and died with Che Guevara, North Vietnam, Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War, Granada, Syria during the Lebanese Civil War, Nicaragua, and none of this counts the thousands helping to arm and supply terrorists from inside the DDR.

[Todd Holmes]

Very, very interesting. I read that a German woman was with Che Guevara in Bolivia (I think) She was Stasi? Makes sense.

[Sgt. Steiner]

Never heard of any NVA / Stasi captured or killed in Grenada. Any source?

[Din1965]

Never heard of any NVA / Stasi captured or killed in Grenada. Any source?

A young woman of dual Argentine-East German nationality, Haydée Tamara Bunke Bider was best known by her code-name, “Tania.” After meeting Che Guevara in East Germany in 1960, she became enthralled with his revolutionary ideas. Tania subsequently traveled to Cuba where she became active in the Cuban revolutionary movement and was recruited and trained as an agent for the Bolivia mission. Tania went to Bolivia in 1964 under the alias Laura Gutiérrez Bauer to establish contacts among the Bolivian upper class. In her cover as a researcher of indigenous folk music and as a German tutor for wealthy children, she began collecting strategic and tactical information.14 Through her network of contacts and Communist “fellow travelers” Tania obtained Bolivian press credentials for Che Guevara, Régis Debray, and Ciro Roberto Bustos (a Cuban agent from Argentina). In La Paz she hosted a radio advice program for the lovelorn and used it to send coded messages to Cuban intelligence. Tania was a triple agent who also worked for the Soviet KGB and the East German secret police, the “Stasi.” The importance of her role in the Bolivian foco has become almost as mythologized as that of Che Guevara. She was killed in ambush by Bolivian army patrol on August 31, 1967, at Vado del Yeso, Bolivia.

There is a nice read about her at : https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/e...mara-1937-1967

Best regards
Dinos

[Din1965]

Also just to show the variety.. here are some international activities of the STASI.

• Stasi experts helped train the secret police organization of Mengistu Haile Mariam in Ethiopia.
• Fidel Castro's regime in Cuba was particularly interested in receiving training from the Stasi. Stasi instructors worked in Cuba and Cuban communists received training in East Germany.The Stasi chief Markus Wolf described how he set up the Cuban system on the pattern of the East German system.
• Stasi officers helped in initial training and indoctrination of Egyptian State Security organizations under the Nasser regime from 1957–58 onwards. This was discontinued by Anwar Sadat in 1976.
• The Stasi's experts worked with building secret police systems in the People's Republic of Angola, the People's Republic of Mozambique, and the People's Republic of Yemen (South Yemen).
• The Stasi organized and extensively trained Syrian intelligence services under the regime of Hafez al-Assad and Ba'ath Party from 1966 onwards and especially from 1973.
• Stasi experts helped to set up Idi Amin's secret police.
• Stasi experts helped the President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, to set up his secret police. When Nkrumah was ousted by a military coup, Stasi Major Jürgen Rogalla was imprisoned.
• The Stasi sent agents to the West as sleeper agents. For instance, sleeper agent Günter Guillaume became a senior aide to social democratic chancellor Willy Brandt, and reported about his politics and private life.
• The Stasi operated at least one brothel. Agents were used against both men and women working in Western governments. "Entrapment" was used against married men and homosexuals.
• Martin Schlaff – According to the German parliament's investigations, the Austrian billionaire's Stasi codename was "Landgraf" and registration number "3886-86". He made money by supplying embargoed goods to East Germany.
• Sokratis Kokkalis – Stasi documents suggest that the Greek businessman was a Stasi agent, whose operations included delivering Western technological secrets and bribing Greek officials to buy outdated East German telecom equipment.
• Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Group)—A terrorist organization which killed dozens of West Germans and others, which received financial and logistical support from the Stasi, as well as shelter and new identities
• The Stasi ordered a campaign in which cemeteries and other Jewish sites in West Germany were smeared with swastikas and other Nazi symbols. Funds were channelled to a small West German group for it to defend Adolf Eichmann
• The Stasi channelled large amounts of money to Neo-Nazi groups in West, with the purpose of discrediting the West.
• The Stasi allowed the wanted West German Neo-Nazi Odfried Hepp to hide in East Germany and then provided him with a new identity so that he could live in the Middle East.
• The Stasi worked in a campaign to create extensive material and propaganda against Israel.
• Murder of Benno Ohnesorg – A Stasi informant in the West Berlin police, Karl-Heinz Kurras, fatally shot an unarmed demonstrator, which stirred a whole movement of Marxist radicalism, protest, and terrorist violence.[51] The Economist describes it as "the gunshot that hoaxed a generation".The surviving Stasi Records contain no evidence that Kurras was acting under their orders when he shot Ohnesorg.
• Operation Infektion—The Stasi helped the KGB to spread HIV/AIDS disinformation that the United States had created the disease. Millions of people around the world still believe in these claims.
• Sandoz chemical spill—The KGB reportedly[by whom?] ordered the Stasi to sabotage the chemical factory to distract attention from the Chernobyl disaster six months earlier in Ukraine.
• Investigators have found evidence of a death squad that carried out a number of assassinations (including assassination of Swedish journalist Cats Falck) on orders from the East German government from 1976 to 1987. Attempts to prosecute members failed.
• The Stasi attempted to assassinate Wolfgang Welsch, a famous critic of the regime. Stasi collaborator Peter Haack (Stasi codename "Alfons") befriended Welsch and then fed him hamburgers poisoned with thallium. It took weeks for doctors to find out why Welsch had suddenly lost his hair.
• Documents in the Stasi archives state that the KGB ordered Bulgarian agents to assassinate Pope John Paul II, who was known for his criticism of human rights in the Communist bloc, and the Stasi was asked to help with covering up traces.
• A special unit of the Stasi assisted Romanian intelligence in kidnapping Romanian dissident Oliviu Beldeanu from West Germany.
• The Stasi in 1972 made plans to assist the Vietnam People's Public Security in improving its intelligence work during the Vietnam War.
• In 1975, the Stasi recorded a conversation between senior West German CDU politicians Helmut Kohl and Kurt Biedenkopf. It was then "leaked" to the Stern magazine as a transcript recorded by American intelligence. The magazine then claimed that Americans were wiretapping West Germans and the public believed the story.

[vacollector]

Very, very interesting. I read that a German woman was with Che Guevara in Bolivia (I think) She was Stasi? Makes sense.

I read about her and others in a biography on Che called Che Guevara a Revolutionary Life. I also read about East Germans in supporting rolls in the Bush Wars in Timothy Bax's book on the Bush War. As for Vietnam, that info came from a former PoW that used by the East Germans as propaganda. But the biggest help was a book called Stasi. It really uncovered alot of the secrets operations conducted by them.

[Todd Holmes]

Very interesting. I also have read Che Guevara, A Revolutionary Life, as well as "Venceromos" Speeches and essays by Che. That's for the tip about Stasi I'll look into finding a copy!

[Todd Holmes]

Very interesting. I also have read Che Guevara, A Revolutionary Life, as well as "Venceromos" Speeches and essays by Che. Thanks for the tip about Stasi I'll look into finding a copy!

[Peter_Suciu]

This helmet is in the movie Dogs of War. I wondered if it was the DDR export helmet.

[ogpsycho]

The helmets in the movie is not the Gerät 605.