Otto John

In July 1954, he surfaced in East Germany, where he made public appearances criticizing the government in Bonn and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.

[2] At the time, he worked as a lawyer at the Deutsche Lufthansa legal office in Madrid and used contacts he had made with British intelligence to escape to England and avoid certain execution.

He worked for the BBC German Language Service and in black propaganda at The Rookery,[3] in the village of Aspley Guise, in Milton Keynes England,[4] and towards the end of the war for Soldatensender Calais.

[2] On 4 December 1950, he was appointed president of the West German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz).

From August to December, he was interrogated by the KGB in Moscow before he returned to East Berlin, where he resumed his criticism of West Germany as a speaker.