28/08/2026
SIXTEEN YEARS: From refugee camp to the Chancellor's desk
1956. A married couple cross into West Germany and register as refugees.
They settled in Frankfurt, opened a small business and joined a political party. Both had been sent by East German intelligence, whose method was patience: place people young and wait for them to rise. By 1972 Gunter Guillaume was a personal assistant to Chancellor W***y Brandt, reading his correspondence with NATO leaders. Old radio traffic gave him away.
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