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The comrades of the State Security were extremely satisfied with their informers.

"Assigned tasks are carried out in good quality," praised the superiors.

The information is predominantly "operationally significant" and "very meaningful", according to one assessment.

It is part of the documents that the GDR secret service put on Jens F. from April 1984 to December 1989.

At that time the man, who was born in Spremberg in Brandenburg, served in the National People's Army (NVA).

At the same time he led a secret double life in the Stasi.

When the GDR went under, his dreams also burst.

Jens F. apparently did not arrive in the Federal Republic of Germany.

The now 55-year-old is suspected of serving as a spy for the Russian military intelligence service GRU.

This week the federal prosecutor brought charges against Jens F.

The allegation: as an employee of a company that checks electrical equipment for the Bundestag, among other things, he is said to have sent PDF files with floor plans of Bundestag properties to a secret service employee in the Russian embassy in 2017.

The location of office space can be derived from such property plans.

However, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the police discovered F.

Once again, his dream of being an agent has broken.

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WELT AM SONNTAG was now able to see the papers from the Stasi records authority on Jens F.

They trace his career.

Shortly before the fall of the Wall, Jens F. wanted to get started as a career officer in the Stasi Department I, which is responsible for the army.

The recruitment proposal had already been approved.

According to the plan, position 07 01 15 was reserved for him.

A "perspective cadre proposal" was submitted through the staunch comrade F.

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The generous salary was fixed, but nothing came of the commitment

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The monthly salary of 1,100 GDR marks plus generous allowances was fixed, as was the first day of work: December 1, 1989. But by then the wall had already come down and Erich Mielke's ministry was about to be dissolved.

This story is recorded in documents that have been saved from destruction.

There are 40 pages - CVs, certificates and assessments.

Jens F. spied on his comrades

The bundle shows that Jens F. spied on his comrades in the barracks under the code name "Frank John" as an unofficial employee (IM).

First as an officer student at the University for Land Forces in Löbau, later as a lieutenant in the 21st Panzer Regiment in Spechtberg, Western Pomerania.

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The mission of F .: He was supposed to enlighten members of the army who were critical of the GDR, wanted to desert or had contacts in the West.

In GDR German the file says: "Recognizing / combating the effects of piD".

“PiD” means “political-ideological diversion”.

A term communist intelligence agencies used to refer to western influences.

Graduation certificate from the officers' college

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Whenever Jens F. had collected information at the time, he contacted his command officer "personally with slogan".

To do this, he had to say a sentence that contained the words “zoo” and “bear window”.

The person opposite then knew.

The talents of the trained car mechanic, who was also trained as a political officer, inspired his superiors at the Stasi.

They promoted their pupil to a so-called FIM.

These letters stand for a leadership IM, an informant who instructed other informers.

The papers that are still available are also evidence that Jens F. was a GDR citizen who was strictly loyal to the line.

His parents were staunch SED comrades.

The mother served the party as chair of a women's commission.

The father, an NVA colonel, was an employee of the security department at the Central Committee of the SED.

According to the documents, the son's relationship with his parents was close.

So he spent his vacation with them.

He hardly drank alcohol, had no girlfriend and in his free time he preferred to drive his Trabi.

Now and then he went to dance events.

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State security played a major role in Jens F.'s family, according to the file.

His brother even had a permanent job in counter-espionage.


Now, of all things, counter-espionage by the former class enemy destroyed the plans of the ex-Stasi informers.

He now faces a fine or imprisonment for up to five years.

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