Left-Extremist Endeavours

Residency staff members
and alleged asylum seekers
spy on dissidents
Intelligence services are to
contribute to the
achievement of China’s
envisaged great-power
position
3. Iraqi Intelligence Services
Spying on, and infiltration of, Iraqi dissidents living abroad continue
to be the priority intelligence targets of the Iraqi intelligence
service in Germany. Its primary interest is in obtaining
information on the whereabouts, in other countries, of specific
critics of the regime, officers having fled the country or other
persons cleared for access to classified information. In addition
to undercover intelligence-service staffers at the Iraqi Embassy in
Bonn, it increasingly uses agents who, posing as asylum seekers,
attempt to obtain information on the German asylum procedure
and to infiltrate Iraqi dissident groups. For facilitation of
entry, the Iraqi intelligence services make use of professional
clandestine immigration rings which, against payment, smuggle
the agents concerned from a neighbouring country to Germany.
As regards the direction and control of agents who have already
been active for some time - so-called ’asset sources’ - the Iraqi
services increasingly channel their contacts with them either directly
through the services’ headquarters in Baghdad or through
a residency in a neighbouring country of the German area of
operations.
V. Activities of Far East Intelligence Services
Intelligence services from a number of Far East countries also
continue to pursue intelligence activities in Germany. In this regard,
the People’s Republics of China and of North Korea are the
primary countries involved.
1. Chinese Intelligence Services
The intensive espionage activities of the intelligence services of
the People’s Republic of China (PRC) continue to be based on
the objective of drawing level with leading industrial nations economically
and in terms of armaments technology.. In the political
area, too, the PRC, as an emerging great power, wants to obtain
all essential information. To this end, with major staffing and
funding inputs, it has, for a number of years, been operating six
intelligence and security services, of which primarily the "Ministry
for State Security" (civilian intelligence service - MSS) and the
"Main Directorate ’Intelligence’ of the General Staff of the People’s
Liberation Army" (military intelligence service - MID) are
responsible for foreign-intelligence tasks.
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