Foreign policy intelligence

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Foreign Policy Intelligence Service (APN) was from autumn 1953 to September 1956 a name for the main department XV ( foreign intelligence service ) of the State Secretariat for State Security or (from 1955) the Ministry for State Security of the GDR .

This news service previously operated under the name of the Institute for Economic Research (IWF). Due to the transfer of the IMF department head Gotthold Krauss to the West on April 4, 1953 and the resulting criminal prosecution measures as part of " Aktion Vulkan " in the Federal Republic of Germany , the IMF was exposed and incorporated into the State Secretariat for State Security (SfS) as Department XV . In 1956, the main intelligence administration (HVA) was formed from this.

Head of Department XV (Foreign Policy Intelligence) was Markus Wolf , who had previously headed the IMF from the end of 1952.

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  1. ^ Helmut Müller-Enbergs : The intelligence school. The I. Course of the School of the Institute for Economic Research (IWF) . (= booklets on DDR history 107). Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin 2006, p. 5 fn. 1. In another publication ( The Institute for Economic Research and the Beginnings of GDR Espionage. Structural and personal decisions from 1951 to 1956. Berlin 2010), Müller-Enbergs points out this pointed out that the IMF as a foreign policy intelligence service (APN) was not subordinate to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR , as is often assumed in the older (western) research literature. The name Foreign Policy Intelligence Service can only be proven from autumn 1953 to September 1956 (p. 7). See also the identical description in: The Federal Commissioner for the Documents of the State Security Service of the former GDR (publisher): Head Office A (HV A). Tasks - structures - sources . (= Anatomy of the State Security - MfS manual ). Berlin 2013, p. 25.
  2. ^ The Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR (ed.): Head Office A (HV A). Tasks - structures - sources . (= Anatomy of the State Security - MfS manual ). Berlin 2013, p. 34.