Madam was a spy
NZPA-Reuter Bonn The Soviet secret police ran a brothel in Bonn to obtain compromising political information, the West German Government has said in a security re-art just published.
The annual security report by the Interior Ministry said a woman who managed the brothel for the Soviet K.G.B.
had been arrested on May 8, last year. I A search of the brothel ’ and a massage parlour also . owned by the woman had i produced a mass of Secret Service material, the report said. The massage parlour had been bugged with listen-1 ing devices and equipment for filming. The Ministry did not name the woman, but it said the 1 V
control officer who recruited her for the Soviet spy network had used the name, Allan David, and was a member of the K.G.B. After her arrest the woman told counter-espion-age investigators that she had been recruited by David while on a visit to Moscow in 1969. But she said she had given up spying for the Russians three years later.
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