Rainer Rupp (* 1945 in Saarlouis), diploma political economist and journalist, was active under the pseudonym Topas as a feeler gauge for the GDR and Warsaw Pact.

Life

Rainer Rupp buildup in Saarburg (with Trier) with its nut/mother and its stepfather. When "classical 68er "it came to the GDR, which enlisted it 1968 as a feeler gauge during its national economy study in Mainz into the visor of the head office clearing-up (HVA), although he wanted to actually become development aids. Starting from 1969 Rupp for the HVA was active in Brussels. 1970 it met for the first time the Britin Ann Christine Bowen, which it married 1972. On 15 January 1977 he came into the political department of the NATO restaurant you acct advice. For the time being it operated Mosel under the pseudonym "". 1979 were changed its name in Topas. 1980 got its wife first of their three children and terminated their own agent activity, which had exercised her under the alias ".

Under the pseudonym Topas (MfS identification XV/3334/68) it supplied in the following twelve years information from the inside of NATO, under injury of highest security classifications, to the foreign secret service of the GDR. The perhaps most important paper was "MC 161 "in that NATO their knowledge over Warsaw Pact and their military strategies had summarized and with "Cosmic the Top Secret "was marked. 1989 with the end of the Eastern Bloc ended also the espionage activity Rupps. Only by the evaluation of state security service documents of the MfS the identity Rupps could be uncovered.

On 30 July 1993 Rupp and its wife in Saarburg were arrested and condemned 1994 by the higher regional court Duesseldorf to twelve years, and/or to 22 months prison. It began its detention in Saarlouis. To dismiss Rupp became on 27 July 2000. It writes young world and new Germany among other things as an author for the daily papers.

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