“Absolutely,” said the spy.
The spy"s codename was PATRICK and he was perfectly placed to discover the identities of any serious intelligence breaches within the SSD caused by a western spy; after all, PATRICK was the newly appointed Head of Counter-Espionage for the Bundesnachrichtendienst, the BND, the Federal Republic"s foreign intelligence organisation. A former Nazi Intelligence Officer who had served under Walter Schellenberg, he had been captured by the British in 1945. He had subsequently been imprisoned for eighteen months, before agreeing to work as an informant for British Intelligence in Frankfurt to spy on Communist groups in the area.
BundesnachrichtendienstIn the early 1950s, he had been recruited into the Gehlen Organisation by General Reinhard Gehlen, Hitler"s wartime in
