BERLIN — Markus Wolf, who outwitted the West as communist East Germany's long-serving spymaster, has died. He was 83. Wolf passed away early this morning in his apartment in Berlin, his step ...

Known among rival spies as "the man without a face" for his elusiveness, Wolf planted some 4,000 agents in the West — most famously, placing Guenter Guillaume as a top aide to West German ...

Markus Wolf, who outwitted the West as communist East Germany’s long-serving spymaster, has died. He was 83.

WARSAW, Poland — Markus Wolf, the spymaster who epitomized Cold War espionage as head of the brutal and inventive East German foreign-intelligence service, died Thursday at his Berlin home. He ...

Markus Wolf, the former head of communist East Germany's feared spy service, has died at age 83. He was the mastermind of some of the Cold War's most successful intelligence operations.

He planted some 4,000 agents in the West, most famously placing Guenter Guillaume as a top aide to a West German chancellor, Willy Brandt. The agent’s unmasking forced Brandt to resign in 1974. Born ...

And yet, for all his preening, Wolf and his comrades did not win the Cold War. Nor, for all the CIA’s ham-handedness, did the agents of communism even win the intelligence war.

FASCINATING to his fans, odious to his enemies, Markus Wolf embodied the dilemmas and complexities of the cold war in Europe. Seen one way, he was something of a hero: not just a professional but ...

He tried hard, but when he died in his sleep last week, aged 83, Markus Wolf had still not attained the elder statesman status to which he had long aspired. As chief of East Germany’s foreign ...