Left-Extremist Endeavours

In Germany, there are - as before - residual structures of the LPK
which take a passive and wait-and-see attitude towards their
possible affiliation with the PPDK.
The impact of developments in Kosovo on the Kosovar Albanian
groups in Germany cannot yet be assessed. The willingness of
Kosovar Albanians living in Germany to contribute donations to
national funds has distinctly decreased. They preferably provide
direct assistance to their families and relatives in the home country.
8. People-Smuggling Activities
Also in 1999, the Federal Republic of Germany was a preferred
country of destination for illegal migration and for related peoplesmuggling
activities. Illegal migrant trafficking is of great importance
to the capacity to act of extremist foreigner organizations.
Party functionaries and other members are to be removed from
the persecution pressure in the respective home countries and be
taken to safe withdrawal areas. Outward bound smuggling of activists
willing to join the fight provides the guerrilla units operating
in the crisis regions with augmentation forces. Money and
material required for the armed struggle are transported by illegal
couriers. In many instances, extremist organizations try to recruit
new supporters from among the illegal migrants.
For secrecy reasons, most extremist foreigner organizations carry
out their own smuggling of functionaries and members. It is only
in specific cases that they will rely on the services of "professional"
migrant trafficking networks. So far, there have been no
indications that extremist foreigner groups in Germany carry out
migrant smuggling for commercial reasons, e.g. for financing their
activities. There are, however, numerous indications that, by
calling in donated funds, they try to get their share of the profits
earned by commercial illegal migration networks.
For infiltration/exfiltration of members and/or functionaries, the
"Kurdistan Workers’ Party" (PKK) continues to be the most active
extremist organization. It maintains its own - clandestine - organizational
unit, the "ÜlKE-Büro" ("Homeland Bureau"). The
Bureau’s staff travel throughout Germany and neighbouring
countries to carry out logistics tasks; they organize travels by
party cadres and couriers and procure and falsify the identity
documents required in this context. In February and October, the
German police arrested several presumed members of the
"ÜLKE-Büro".
Migrant smuggling activities are also carried out by Turkish leftextremist
organizations, such as the "Revolutionary People’s Lib-
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