Alfred Frenzel was a West German member of parliament, who was secretly conducting espionage for Czechoslovakia while serving on the Bundestag's Defense Committee.
11 Facts About Alfred Frenzel
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Alfred Frenzel was the most important StB spy during the entire Cold War.
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Alfred Frenzel told Frenzel that he was now working for the Czechoslovak government, and offered Frenzel a job.
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Alfred Frenzel said that Frenzel's wife, who was on a trip to Prague, would be in grave danger if he refused.
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Alfred Frenzel travelled to Vienna, Austria, which was at the time crawling with StB officers due to its proximity to Czechoslovakia, where he was given 1,500 Deutsche Marks and given the code name Anna.
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Alfred Frenzel was now trapped, and the StB had enough information to blackmail him unless he did exactly as they said.
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Under the close watch of his StB controller, Major Bohumil Molnar, Alfred Frenzel returned to West Germany.
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Alfred Frenzel began to pass information to Molnar, including a copy of the entire West German defence budget and details of prototype American aircraft.
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Much of the information the StB gathered from Alfred Frenzel was passed on to the KGB.
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In September 1959, Alfred Frenzel was passed on from Molnar to a new controller, a man operating under the pseudonym Franz Altman.
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Alfred Frenzel was exchanged for four West German agents five years later.