Zeitz is believed to have been a high-ranking member of the Greens political party who gave the Stasi details of a joint demonstration planned by western and eastern peace groups in east Berlin in October 1983. Investigators believe there were five agents inside the Free Democratic Party, but none has been identified. There is evidence that there were at least seven East German agents in the Christian Democratic Union, which led the government for 14 years until 1998 - but only one of them has been identified. The situation in other political parties is similar. German investigators believe that the Stasi had 14 agents in official posts in the SPD, including Akker.
He or she had access to important documents on security policy and passed them along to the GDR intelligence organization, the Stasi. For example, Akker was - and perhaps still is - a member of the staff of the national executive of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), which now leads the German government. Some of them may still hold senior positions. Germany believes that many of the alleged agents were probably high-ranking officials in politics, industry and business, and in international organizations such as NATO or the United Nations. They carry the real names of hundreds or thousands of agents whom Germany has previously known only under code names such as "Akker" or "Zeitz."
Munich, 20 September 2000 (RFE/RL) - The names of the communist agents are contained on 1,000 computer discs that until now have been stored in Washington under the code name "Rosewood." RFE/RL correspondent Roland Eggleston reports.
But German agents say it is unlikely that many of them will be publicly exposed or placed on trial.
In the next few weeks, the United States will give Germany thousands of files that could be used to identify West Germans who spied for the German Democratic Republic, or GDR, during the communist era.
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