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Sunday, August 1, 1993
Volume:
9
Issue:
8
305
Abstract:
On July 1, 1993, the Greek Government extradited to Germany a senior Stasi officer accused of being an accessory in terrorist attacks in 1983. German security officers took custody of Helmut Voigt, a former Stasi department head in Athens. They took him to Berlin on a scheduled flight. On landing, they took him directly to Berlin’s Moabit prison. Voigt has had an arrest warrant against him since April 1992. He was employed by the Stasi antiterrorist Department XXII…[more]