Panama Papers

[David Guyatt]

[quote=Magda Hassan]
Jürgen also has a brother and sister, Peter (pictured) and Marion, who returned to German in the 70s. Peter is the Honorary Consul for Panama in Frankfurt

The newspaper said it applied to the German Federal Intelligence Service, the BND, for information about him. The BND confirmed documents existed on him but said they would not be released becauve this could endanger 'the well-being of the Federal Republic of Germany or one of its members'.
In 1948 he left Germany with his family to settle in Panama, and later returned to Munich with his wife during the 70s. He died in the 1990s, his wife followed five years ago.
According to reports, U.S. Army intelligence archives hold a file on him as he allegedly offered his services to the U.S. government as an informant, claiming 'he was about to join a clandestine organisation, either of former Nazis now turned Communist... or of unconverted Nazis cloaking themselves as Communists.'
An Army intelligence officer wrote that the offer to spy for the U.S. might simply be 'a shrewd attempt to get out of an awkward situation'.
Nevertheless, the old intelligence files indicate that Mossack's father later ended up in Panama, where he offered to spy, this time for the CIA, on Communist activity in nearby Cuba.

Interesting what the BND have to say, I think.

Also, a curious sort of synchronicity here. Perhaps. I note that two books by John Le Carre, The Tailor of Panama, and Graham Greene's The Honorary Consul - the former set in Panama about spies and power and the latter set in the border region of Argentina and Paraguay about overthrowing the Nazi leaning Paraguayan dictatorship of the time.

It's one of those Mmmm moments.