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<text id=91TT2145>
<title>
Sep. 30, 1991: World Notes:Diplomacy
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Sep. 30, 1991 Curing Infertility
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 45
World Notes
DIPLOMACY
Is the Wolf Trapped?
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<p> The tale sounded like a John le Carre thriller, and with good
reason: the main character is believed to have been the model
for the novelist's Karla, the fabled communist spy master.
Markus Wolf, former chief of the foreign intelligence arm of
Stasi, East Germany's dreaded secret police, emerged in Vienna
last week, where he had been secretly living since Aug. 30. He
applied for political asylum in Austria--a request that was
promptly denied. The wily spy chief, who is wanted in Germany
on espionage charges, is currently free on appeal.
</p>
<p> Wolf fled to the Soviet Union shortly before German
unification last October. In the aftermath of the failed Soviet
coup, he apparently feared that the reformers now in power in
Moscow would hand him over to Germany. Though Austria is
expected to deny Wolf's appeal, it cannot deport him to his
homeland; international law protects him against extradition for
political crimes. So where will he go? The Soviet Union, which
has already antagonized Germany by harboring former East German
leader Erich Honecker, is unlikely to want him back. Wolf says
his own choice would be Germany. But coming in from the cold and
staying free might be an objective out of reach even for Karla.
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