The Real Reason Why Germany Halted Its Gold Repatriation From the NY Fed

[Peter Lemkin]

This is something I've not researched before.....and don't have a firm position on it. However, living as I do in a former communist east bloc country, I know it can be more complicated that it first appears - although the games played were hardly different than those played in the 'West'. A person can choose to be close to or part of the intelligence crowd, or one can be made to look like one was, or one can be compromised to be - or appear to be...and several other combinations and permutations. On searching, however, I found some things on her father [who supposedly went from West to East Germany [?!] and a Physics professor friend of hers who was allegedly a Stasi agent.....whether this is so, or just to knock her [her policies NOW are enough, I think, to knock her - one hardly need look to her past!], I don't know. Anyone in Germany have a better hold on this? Can't vouch for this below.....

Merkel and supposed Stasi agent Osten

The picture above was taken in 1986. It depicts an outing to the Baltic Island of Rugen by members of the DDR-Jugendverbandes. The man next to her at this gathering was Hans-Jörg Osten.

Very few close observers now doubt that Merkel's father (the only man on record who defected from West to East Germany) was a Stasi social spy and part-time organiser.
What most Germans don't know, however, is that Hans-Jörg Osten was her Professor and close confidante at the Academy of Sciences where she was a student. And what they found out that Osten was a paid agent of the Stasi with documentary evidence from the files to prove it.
In the files (extracted left) her physics professor and fellow FDJ bigwig is unmasked as a spy using the cover name Einstein'.
Today, Hans-Jörg Osten is 56 years old, and a professor at the Leibniz University of Hanover.
The documents go on to say that he was recruited on the basis of the political-ideological cooperation…in his operating activities, he is mainly useful on defence issues, and for the development of people working files. He was always a very reliable worker.' The defence issues' thing is a reference to time spent by Osten working in the US.During this period, he was supposedly a Stasi spy.