Wilhelm Dietl

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Wilhelm Dietl (* 1955 in Kötzting ) is a German journalist and secret service expert.

Life

Journalistic career

Born in 1955, Dietl began training as an editor for a local newspaper in 1971, before completing his school career. He later switched to the Erdinger local edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . From 1979 to 1990 he worked for the illustrated magazine Quick and was temporarily its chief reporter and chief correspondent. At the same time, he worked as a freelance writer for Stern and for Spiegel . From 1993 to 2004 Dietl worked for the news magazine Focus .

Employees of the BND

The Federal Intelligence Service (BND) became aware of Dietl through his frequent trips abroad . Under the code name "Dali" he traveled to the countries of the Near and Middle East as well as South and Central Asia on behalf of the BND and thus obtained data for the BND on military equipment and on the political and economic development of the respective countries. In 1993 he left the BND after publicly criticizing the role of State Minister Bernd Schmidbauer in the release of two kidnapped German hostages in Lebanon .

Conflicts with the BND

After his insider publications together with Norbert Juretzko , Dietl was observed by the BND. ( so-called journalist affair )

Various media later reported on Dietl's earlier BND activities and accused him of betraying journalists to the BND .

Dietl described the events as an act of revenge by the BND with the aim of destroying his professional existence and accused the BND of having passed on truthful, secret information together with deliberate false information to media representatives. He took legal action against the publishing media and in some cases brought about cease and desist statements or corrections. Two criminal charges by Dietl against leading BND employees, including August Hanning and Ernst Uhrlau , were discontinued. The parliamentary control committee chaired by Gerhard Schäfers also dealt with these incidents and the publication of conditionally ready for service in the form of a special investigation.

Memberships, functions

Dietl is co-founder and deputy head of the Essen Institute for Terrorism Research and Security Policy .

Publications

The BKA story (2000)

In his publication on the history of the BKA, he dealt intensively with the infiltration of the BKA with former SS people from the SD from its foundation until the 1960s, above all by the "architect" and later president of the BKA, Paul Dickopf .

Works (selection)

  • Holy War for Allah: As an eyewitness to the secret commands of Islam , Kindler-Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-463-00853-X .
  • Bridgehead Afghanistan: Power politics in the Middle East , Kindler-Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-463-00871-8 .
  • Weapons for the world: The billion dollar business of the armaments industry , Droemer-Knaur-Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-426-26268-1 .
  • The agent of the Mossad: Operation Red Prince , Econ-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1992, ISBN 3-430-12105-1 .
  • Carlos: The end of a myth - The hunt for the top terrorist , Lübbe-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, ISBN 3-404-61330-9 .
  • with Zvi Aharoni : The Hunter: Operation Eichmann - What Really Happened , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-421-05031-7 .
  • State affair: Behind the scenes of the secret services - The tug-of-war over the German hostages in Lebanon , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-421-05067-8 .
  • The BKA story , Droemer-Knaur-Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-426-77694-4 .
  • with Katrin Wahl: Black Book White House: Foreign Policy with the Assault Rifle , Area Verlag, Erftstadt 2004, ISBN 3-89996-204-4 .
  • with Norbert Juretzko : Conditionally ready for service: In the heart of the BND - The accounting of a dropout , Ullstein-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-548-36795-8 .
  • with Kai Hirschmann and Rolf Tophoven : The Terrorism Lexicon: Offenders, Victims, Backgrounds , Eichborn-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-8218-5642-1 .
  • Spy ladies: Women in the Secret Service , Ullstein-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-550-07623-7 .
  • Code name Dali: A BND agent unpacks , Eichborn-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-8218-5670-4 .
  • with Norbert Juretzko: In sight: an ex-agent reveals the machinations of the BND , Heyne-Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-453-62021-6 .
  • Shadow armies: The secret services of the Islamic world , Residenz-Verlag, St. Pölten 2010, ISBN 978-3-7017-3167-1 .

documentary

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the daily newspaper of January 6, 2006: A big little fish - the Federal Intelligence Service spied on the journalist Wilhelm Dietl until 2004 .
  2. ↑ See Spiegel Online: Spying on Journalists - By Double Agents and their Victims , last viewed on February 6, 2015.
  3. ↑ See the expert opinion of the German Bundestag's parliamentary control committee, Dr. Gerhard Schäfer (PDF, 8.79 MB).
personal data
SURNAME Dietl, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and secret service expert
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Kötzting