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Gabriele Gast
Born
2 March 1943
Remscheid, Rhine Province, Germany
Alma mater
RWTH Aachen University
Occupation(s)
Political analyst Spy
Political party
CDU SED
Gabriele Gast (born 2 March 1943) is a former double agent and East German spy.[1] In 1973, Gast responded to a newspaper job advertisement purportedly placed by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. On 1 November 1973, she started to work with the West German intelligence service (the Bundesnachrichtendienst/BND).[2]
Background vetting undertaken by the BND had failed to identify that since 1968 Gast had been on the books of the East German HVA, the branch of the East German Ministry for State Security (Stasi) concerned with "foreign" intelligence.[3] For an unknown reason, it was not till 1990, when she was "betrayed by a defector", that the West German Intelligence Service became aware of her espionage activities.[4]
Informants who passed information from the West to the East German intelligence services were often paid a fee. Gabriele Gast refused to accept payment and reportedly engaged in espionage for "love".[5] It is theorised that after some time the "love" was matched and replaced as the driving force for her espionage work by a deep political commitment.[3][6] Despite her changing circumstances, she never accepted payment from her East German spy chiefs.[1][7] After the Cold War had ended with the fall of the USSR, and after she had served her sentence in West Germany, she presented herself as a spy "from conviction" ("aus Überzeugung").[8]
The overall assessment is that Heinz Felfe was East Germany's most effective spy. However, a recent article from Sven Felix Kellerhoff ranked Gast as East Germany's fourth most damaging spy, one place ahead of Günter Guillaume.[9]
^ abLeslie Colitt (14 September 1996). "Lord of the spies". For 30 years, Markus Wolf was the world's ultimate spymaster. His East German intelligence network was as feared as the mighty KGB. John le Carre based his character 'Karla' on him. Western spies, unable even to obtain a current photograph of him, dubbed him 'the man without a face'. Then the Berlin Wall came down. The Independent, London. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
^Gabriele Gast (10 May 2006). "Bitte recht feindlich". Deutschlands kurioseste Behörde zieht nach Berlin um. Zum Abschied des BND kommentiert eine ehemalige Doppelagentin ihre Arbeit. Süddeutsche Zeitung mbH, München. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
^ abSusanne Koelbl (22 March 1999). "Perle aus Pullach". Spitzenspionin und Romeo-Opfer Gabriele Gast rechnet mit den Männern im Geheimdienst ab. Der Spiegel (online). Retrieved 21 November 2017.
^Kristie Macrakis (17 March 2008). Secret Writing Revealed. Cambridge University Press. pp. 199–202. ISBN 978-1-139-47111-4. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^Gisela Friedrichsen (30 December 1991). "Schneider, am liebsten Hase". Der Spiegel (online). Retrieved 21 November 2017.
^John O. Koehler (5 August 2008). The Romeo ploy. Basic Books. pp. 149–153. ISBN 978-0-7867-2441-3. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^Cite error: The named reference Spiegel491991 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Hans Wiesner (1999). "Agentin aus Überzeugung (book review)". Gabriele Gast: "Kundschafterin des Friedens", Agentin aus Überzeugung. Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein e.V., Berlin. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
^Sven Felix Kellerhoff [in German] (8 July 2014). "Enttarnt – Die größten Agentenfälle Deutschlands". WeltN24 GmbH, Berlin. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
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