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the times | 13.03.2002 11:59

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March 12, 2002

West was easy prey for Stasi callgirls
From Allan Hall in Berlin



NEW information found in Stasi files in Berlin discloses how the secret police of East Germany recruited dozens of callgirls to compromise Western diplomats and businessmen.
Officially, prostitution was a Western bourgeois ailment that had no place in the socialist utopia; unofficially, information gathered through pillow-talk between the callgirls and their targets was an important tool in the continuous war against the class enemies beyond the Berlin Wall.

In East Berlin, Stasi teams combed the streets looking for suitable candidates. The files name Monika G and Gisela S, who were told that their “criminal activities” would be overlooked if they agreed to sleep with the enemy.

One woman, codenamed Rose, supplied information on seven different Westerners she was sleeping with in Leipzig. Another, Rosemarie Martin, was hired to discover lesbians and homosexuals who might be susceptible to blackmail.One document refers to an unnamed British businessman who ordered a Stasi prostitute to bring a whip to their meeting. Hotels where the women took their Western customers were also bugged by Stasi agents.

The files would be comical were it not for the consequences. Martin betrayed a ring of a would-be escapers from Leipzig who had sought help from Western businessmen. They received long jail terms.

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