Berlin Wall 1961 - 1989 Die Berliner Mauer 1961 - 1989

Putin told  NTV reporter Vladimir Kondratyev in a half-hour interview how he managed to calm down an angry crowd of East German protesters outside the KGB headquarters in Dresden in late 1989.Putin’s interview will be aired as part of the 50-minute film at 7:25 p.m on NTV on Sunday, Nov. 8 , 2009 one day before the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall.Putin served as a KGB officer in Dresden from 1985 to 1990. His only brush with history there occurred on Dec. 5, 1989, almost a month after the wall fell.After storming the nearby local headquarters of the East German Secret Police, or Stasi, protesters gathered outside his office building. Putin recalled how he met the crowd personally and told them in German that this was a Soviet military organization. When people replied suspiciously that he spoke German too well, “I told them I was a translator,” he said.Mr Putin will be shown discussing the incident in a documentary called The Wall to be broadcast on state-controlled TV next month.The programme's maker, Vladimir Kondratyev, has defended his decision to make Mr Putin one of the film's main characters. Mr Kondratyev believes that Mr Putin, who worked as a KGB agent hand-in-glove with the East German Stasi intelligence service during the 1980s, did a lot to hasten the wall's collapse. Yet his description of Mr Putin's actions suggests the opposite."He was one of the few Soviet citizens who had first-hand experience of East German demonstrators when a crowd ransacked the Stasi's office in Dresden and then prepared to storm the building where Putin and his Soviet spy comrades were working," Mr Kondratyev told the daily Kommersant newspaper."Putin succeeded in persuading the crowd to fall back." State TV has in the past described how Mr Putin brandished a pistol in front of the crowd and used his fluent German to make it clear he was prepared to use it."This is Soviet territory and you're standing on our border," he was quoted as saying. "I'm serious when I say that I will shoot trespassers." A witness was quoted as saying that Mr Putin issued the threat with his trademark assurance. In the documentary, 

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4Law Source Version

During his Israeli term Leopold Trepper  was interrogated by Israeli Intelligence officials he Identified the man in this picture above as a man he saw between 1936 - 1939 in USSR in an Intelligence officers training facility in Leningrad.The man died in Israeli Prison as a Soviet Agent named Israel Bar. (Israel Bar in Israel Secret Service/Shabak Site - English)

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Israeli Secret Service Version

"having participated in battle alongside the Social-Republicans in the Civil War in Spain during the years 1936-1938, claiming to have completed his service as a colonel serving as a brigade commander – the personal record in which he took such glory should be regarded with a critical eye. "(Israel Bar in Israel Secret Service/Shabak Site - English)
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Jurnalists Book Version - According to an Israeli ex. spy this can be mixed with invention

After four days of interrogation Isser Harel paid Beer a visit. Beer had not been cooperative. Harel planned to do something about that. "He looked Beer in the face, just as he had done at their first meeting so many months before. In a calm but unyielding tone of voice he said to him: 'I know you are a Soviet agent. Tell me the truth. If you are cooperative you will make it easier on everyone, including yourself. Tell me your story.'" Beer proceeded to repeat his oft-used story again. "When he was finished Isser calmly told him: 'You are a liar.'
'We can find no trace of your parents in Austria. If they were typical Jewish parents, as you make them out to be, then why aren't you circumcised?'
'We have checked all the records in Austria. You never fought on the barricades. You never received a doctorate, as you claim you did, nor did you ever attend the university. You did not go to the military academy because Jews were not allowed to at the time. They have checked their lists for us and your name is not there. The Schutzbund has no record of your membership either.''We have gone through the records of the international Brigade and your name is not there. You never fought in Spain…'
'Now tell me: who are you? We want the truth.'"(Israel Beer in Jewish Virtual Library)

Viktor Vladimirov, a long-time official working at the Soviet Embassy in Helsinki, worked as the head of the KGB’s sabotage and assassination section in the late 1960s. One of Vladimirov’s projects was a plot in 1967 to murder former KGB officer Anatoly Golitsyn, who had defected to Canada from Finland where he worked in 1961. These are some of the juicier details contained in a newly-published history of the Finnish Security Police (SUPO) by historian Kimmo Rentola. Rentola says that the plot against Golitsyn failed, as did a similar attempt to kill another defector, which also took place in 1967. While working in Helsinki, Viktor Vladimirov became an "important source of information" for two Finnish presidents - Urho Kekkonen and Mauno Koivisto, with whom he became "quite close". Both presidents knew that he held the rank of general in the KGB, but it is unlikely that they had any knowledge of his work in covert operations.  There had been reports of Vladimirov’s career in the assassinations section in stories told by Soviet defectors to Western intelligence services, but it was not until the KGB’s organisation chart was published in a Russian reference book in 2004 that there was positive confirmation of the matter. Vladimirov served at the Soviet Embassy in Helsinki in the 1950s, 1970s, and 1980s. He died in 1995. 

"Neverthless , by the 1970s the KGB had more people they regaded as agents and `cconfidencial contacts` in Finland than in all the other FCD Third Departmen countries combined(Britain,Ireland,Australasia and the rest of Scandinavia).Helsinky also provided hospitality for the leading Soviet front organization."- "KGB THE INSIDE STORY" Chrritopher Andrew & Oleg Gordievsky p.359.

According to Ex. Intel. officials KGB agents in Helsinki were involved with pushing Finish volunteers to spy in Israel during the Vladimirov term.

Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld.

Ulrich-Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld (21 December 1902 – 8 September 1944) was a German landowner, officer, and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime.
Schwerin was born in the Danish capital Copenhagen. He found Nazism quite loathesome to his Christian social convictions. Already by 1935, he held the view that Adolf Hitler must be killed to be brought down. Beginning in 1938, Schwerin belonged to the tightest circle of the resistance along with his personal friends Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg and Fritz-Dietlof Graf von der Schulenburg, and later also to the Kreisau Circle.From the beginning of the Second World War, Schwerin belonged to the Wehrmacht as an officer. In 1942, Hans Oster appointed Schwerin to the office of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht in Berlin. He participated in the failed attempt on Hitler's life and coup d'état on 20 July 1944 from a position at the Bendlerblock, where the plotters' headquarters were, although he had been saying for weeks that the chances for a successful coup were very slight. There, on the night of 21 July 1944, he was arrested, and on 21 August, he was sentenced to death by the Volksgerichtshof, with Roland Freisler presiding. On 8 September (or according to some sources, on the same day as the trial), Schwerin was hanged at Plötzensee Prison in Berlin.