Rainer Wiegand

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Person.png Rainer WiegandRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(spook)
Died1996
Spain
Cause of death
"car crash"
NationalityEast German

Rainer Wiegand was a colonel in the East German intelligence service Stasi[1]

In January 1990, as East Germany was collapsing, Wiegand fled to West Germany with two large suitcases full of highly sensitive Stasi documents.[2]

Death

Wiegand together with his wife "died in a mysterious car crash" in Spain.[3][4]


 

Event Participated in

EventDescription
Operation RosewoodOne of the greatest coups of Cold War espionage: the CIA secreting away in 1989 of the complete original files from East Germany's foreign spy operations, including the true identities of its thousands of agents, most in West Germany and other NATO countries.
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