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BERLIN (AP) - Heinz Geyer, a deputy head of the former East Germany's foreign intelligence service, died Tuesday, his publisher said. He was 79.
Geyer was a deputy to Markus Wolf _ who notoriously outwitted the West as communist East Germany's long-serving spymaster _ and the last chief of staff of the foreign intelligence arm
of the Stasi secret police, known by its German initials, HVA.
He died of a heart attack at his home in Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten, just east of Berlin, publisher Kai Homilius told The Associated Press.
«We have lost in him an upright man, a friend and an author, who in difficult times remained faithful to his opinions and beliefs,» Homilius said.
Ranked as a major general, Geyer was a deputy to the last head of the HVA, Werner Grossmann, and Wolf, who led the agency for more than three decades until 1986.
During his tenure, Wolf, who died in 2006, planted some 4,000 agents in the West _ most famously placing Guenter Guillaume as a top aide to West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. The agent's unmasking forced Brandt to resign in 1974.
Born in 1929 in the Lower Silesian town of Lauban, in what is today Poland, Geyer grew up in the nearby farming village of Bunzlau, now known as Boleslawiec.
He trained at an East German police academy and entered service with the Stasi in 1950. Over the years, he worked his way up through the organization, and was named deputy chief and chief of staff of the HVA in 1977.
Geyer wrote about his time in the HVA in a 2007 book called «Signs of the Times: 40 Years in Counter Espionage and Intelligence.
No details were available on survivors or funeral arrangements.
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http://www.pr-inside.com/heinz-geyer...er-r621960.htm
BERLIN (AP) - Heinz Geyer, a deputy head of the former East Germany's foreign intelligence service, died Tuesday, his publisher said. He was 79.
Geyer was a deputy to Markus Wolf _ who notoriously outwitted the West as communist East Germany's long-serving spymaster _ and the last chief of staff of the foreign intelligence arm
of the Stasi secret police, known by its German initials, HVA.
He died of a heart attack at his home in Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten, just east of Berlin, publisher Kai Homilius told The Associated Press.
«We have lost in him an upright man, a friend and an author, who in difficult times remained faithful to his opinions and beliefs,» Homilius said.
Ranked as a major general, Geyer was a deputy to the last head of the HVA, Werner Grossmann, and Wolf, who led the agency for more than three decades until 1986.
During his tenure, Wolf, who died in 2006, planted some 4,000 agents in the West _ most famously placing Guenter Guillaume as a top aide to West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. The agent's unmasking forced Brandt to resign in 1974.
Born in 1929 in the Lower Silesian town of Lauban, in what is today Poland, Geyer grew up in the nearby farming village of Bunzlau, now known as Boleslawiec.
He trained at an East German police academy and entered service with the Stasi in 1950. Over the years, he worked his way up through the organization, and was named deputy chief and chief of staff of the HVA in 1977.
Geyer wrote about his time in the HVA in a 2007 book called «Signs of the Times: 40 Years in Counter Espionage and Intelligence.
No details were available on survivors or funeral arrangements.
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