Heinz Felfe
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Heinz Paul Johann Felfe (March 18, 1918) was a German national who was a former SS Obersturmführer, who worked for the Bundesnachrichtendienst after the Second World War and who became a spy for the Soviet Union.
Felfe joined the Sicherheitsdienst of the SS in 1943, for which he was stationed in Switzerland and the Netherlands. He was captured by the British Army in 1945. After the war he provided intelligence to the Brits, but they released him suspecting he was a Soviet mole. In 1951 he joined the Gehlen Organization, quickly joining up in ranks.
Felfe was arrested on spying charges on November 6, 1961, and put to trial in 1963. He obtained a 14-year sentence, but was released in 1969 in exchange for three West German students who were convicted in the Soviet Union for spying, Walter Naumann, Peter Sonntag and Volker Schaffhausen.[1][2][3]
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- Im Dienst des Gegners: 10 Jahre Moskaus Mann im BND (1986)
