Hans-Georg Wieck

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Dr. Hans-Georg Wieck was president of the German foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst from 1985 to 1990.[1]

Wiek liased closely with William Odom of the National Security Agency on a joint project to break the codes produced by commercial cypher machines from the Swiss company Crypto AG.[2]

Notes

  1. Die Präsidenten des Bundesnachrichtendienstes: eine Auswahl im Porträt, Das Bundesarchiv, accessed 17 June 2013.
  2. Richard J. Aldrich, GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency, HarperPress, 2010, p.214.