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    The Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (German: Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung; German: HVA, German pronunciation: [haːfaʊ̯ˈaː] ) was the foreign intelligence...
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    The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Головне управління розвідки Міністерства оборони України, ГУР МОУ...
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    head of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung), the foreign intelligence division of East Germany's Ministry for State Security...
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  • helpers in the focus of the Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (HVA, “Main Directorate for Reconnaissance”), the primary foreign intelligence agency of the former...
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  • Deutschland 83 (category International Emmy Award for Best Drama Series winners)
    Martin's handler who works in the Stasi's foreign arm, the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (HVA). Lisa Tomaschewsky as Yvonne Edel, General Edel's daughter...
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  • State Security Service of the German Democratic Republic. Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (HVA) (German: Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung): Foreign Intelligence...
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    a former Stasi officer Felix Dzerzhinsky Guards Regiment Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (Foreign intelligence) Military Intelligence of the National...
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    broadcasts sent by the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance. Although the East German broadcasts are similar, the voice used for the Swedish Rhapsody was...
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    The Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Russian: Гла́вное раке́тно-артиллери́йское управле́ние...
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  • 1795–1801 United Kingdom Markus Wolf 1951–1986 East Germany Main Directorate for Reconnaissance Shen Zui 1934–1949 Republic of China Bureau of Investigation...
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  • (MfS or Stasi) (Ministry for State Security) (1950–1990) Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (HVA) (1955–1990) Military Intelligence of the National People's...
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  • German actor (died 2011) Markus Wolf, German head of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (died 2006) 9 February – Heinz Drache, German actor (died...
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    The Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, formerly the Main Intelligence Directorate, and still commonly...
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  • Deutschland 86 (section Main)
    from the Stasi's foreign arm, the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (HVA), who is now a member of Parliament for the Alternative Party. Fritzi Haberlandt...
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  • Deutschland 89 (section Main)
    aunt and former handler within the Stasi's foreign arm, the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (HVA) who supplies explosives to the Red Army Faction. Sylvester...
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    1947 and 1950 the whole of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) was reorganized. The first "independent reconnaissance companies of special purpose"...
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  • officer Günther Bohnensack of section X of East Germany's Main Directorate for Reconnaissance. It is known that Segal was in close contact with Russian KGB...
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    The Main Automotive-Armoured Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Russian: Главное автобронетанковое управление МО РФ, romanized: Glavnoye...
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  • Christel Boom (category West German people convicted of spying for East Germany)
    few times in the early 1950s for the Stasi, before the couple received training from the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (HVA), the foreign intelligence...
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    Willy Brandt (category Ministers for foreign affairs of Germany)
    been an espionage agent for East Germany, who was supervised by Markus Wolf, the head of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung...
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    was primarily concerned with internal security, but its Main Directorate for Reconnaissance operated espionage activities around the world. The CIA secretly...
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    Lothar Bisky (category Members of the Bundestag for Brandenburg)
    (reliable), the highest level of trust for an informer. When Bisky was promoted, the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (German: Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung)...
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    The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense...
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  • Rudolf Bamler (category National Committee for a Free Germany members)
    Opke of Artillery Regiment 12 receive the Oak Leaves to the Knights Cross for repeated outstanding military exploits". This message was sent at 10 o'clock...
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    political and military support for armed movements and the espionage activities of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance of the Ministry of State Security...
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  • Fifth Main Sub-inspectorate (Canary Islands), in Santa Cruz de Tenerife Infrastructure Directorate The Economic Affairs Directorate is responsible for the...
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    of the records of its foreign intelligence division, the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (HVA) were destroyed or disappeared in 1989–90. Based on...
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  • Consultations held in August 1984 between the Stasi's head of the Main Directorate of Reconnaissance, Markus Wolf, and KGB experts discussed the early detection...
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  • Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution. In 1990, statements by the former officer of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (HVA) Karl-Christoph...
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  • reportedly inspired by it. Markus Wolf, later head of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance of the German Democratic Republic's Ministry of State Security...
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