West Germany: Spooks Galore

"Is anything still secret in Bonn?" Konrad Adenauer once asked in exasperation. The answer then was nein — and it probably still is today. Both citizens and foreigners in West Germany are frequently accused of being spies. That jaunty journalist is charged behind his back with being in the pay of the KGB, the Soviet secret police. This hovering waiter is suspected of eavesdropping for the CIA. All government secretaries, of course, are thought to nip out at lunchtime with top-secret letters to be photographed by enemy agents.

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