One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to …

- Markus Wolf

The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in the heart of Europe, a…

- Markus Wolf

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that m…

- Markus Wolf

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, som…

- Markus Wolf

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that in…

- Markus Wolf

I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intellige…

- Markus Wolf

There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for,…

- Markus Wolf

At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendenc…

- Markus Wolf