Willy Brandt

Willy Brandt      ( politician)
Born	Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm 1913-12-18  Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck,  Germany
Died	1992-10-08 (Age 78)  Unkel,  Rhineland-Palatinate,  Germany
Religion	Lutheranism
Children	4
Spouse	Carlotta Thorkildsen
Member of	Counterintelligence Corps, US/Department/State/International Visitor Leadership Program
Interest of	Albrecht Müller
Party	Social Democratic Party of Germany, Socialist Workers' Party
West German Chancellor 1969-1974  Socialist International‎/President In office 26 November 1976 - 17 September 1992  Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany In office 21 October 1969 - 7 May 1974 Deputy Walter Scheel Preceded by Kurt Georg Kiesinger Succeeded by Helmut Schmidt  Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany In office 1 December 1966 - 20 October 1969 Boss Kurt Georg Kiesinger Succeeded by Walter Scheel  Social Democratic Party of Germany/Leader In office 1964 - 1987  West Germany/Minister for Foreign Affairs In office 1 December 1966 - 20 October 1969 Preceded by Gerhard Schröder (CDU) Succeeded by Walter Scheel  Governing Mayor of West Berlin In office 3 October 1957 - 1 December 1966  President of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin In office 11 January 1955 - 2 October 1957

US asset

In 1950, Brandt, while a member of the Bundestag and the editor-in-chief of the Berliner Stadtblatt, received a secret payment of about 170,000 Deutsche Mark from the U.S. government (equivalent to €390,177 in 2009). He denied to comment the revelation.

Brandt agreed to become a CIC informant in 1948 out of concern over Soviet efforts to suppress his party, the Social Democratic Party of Germany. In the years that followed, he provided his handlers with several hundred reports obtained from social democrats in the Soviet Zone about political, military, and economic conditions there. As Brandt's significance in Berlin rose, so did his value as an American intelligence source.

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Rüdiger von Wechmar	Press Secretary	1973	1974	deputy from 1968

 

Event Planned

Event	Location(s)	Description
Gymnich Meeting	Gymnich	An informal set of meetings of the foreign ministers of the member states of the European Union

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
The Future of Freedom	12 September 1955	17 September 1955	Milan Lombardy Italy	Junket conference for intellectuals arranged by the CIA front organization Congress for Cultural Freedom

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