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The cold war double agent abandoned by the spy agencies he risked his life for

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Was He Giving the Stase False Information?

He always agreed with his dutch andlers it was a good thing to give this information to destaci, so he never gave the information independently. He had dozens of meetings, literally, with his eas german handlers behind the iron curtain. The trick was that the information should be convincing enough for astasi to think that thit was really valuable information. Of course, it shouldn't be information that would harm or that would damage duch interests.

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