World IN BRIEF : GERMANY : Woman Reportedly Spied at the Top

The former East German Communist government had a female spy in the West German head of intelligence’s office at the height of the Cold War, the news magazine Der Spiegel said. The woman, whose code name was Wanda, worked closely with Reinhard Gehlen, who set up the West German intelligence service after World War II and was its head between 1956 and 1968, which includes the period the Berlin Wall was built, it said. Two former East German intelligence officers were quoted as saying that Wanda reported both political decisions and Gehlen’s personal opinions to the Communists for many years.