For the first time in SPIEGEL, the man made a public statement, who in October 1982 gave the decisive hint for the arrest of the then senior leadership of the Red Army Faction (RAF).
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He received a total of 150,000 marks from the state for the tip, the man says. Nevertheless, he still struggles with his behavior. He had had a guilty conscience before. "I felt like a traitor."
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The man from the Rhein-Main area, who wants to remain anonymous, confirms with his statements official explanations for the success of the investigators at the time. He says that a friend and business partner discovered mushroom pickers in a forest near Offenbach first of all as a hiding place with weapons. Both had looked at the find together before going to the police.
The hiding place was the central depot of the RAF, in which money and references to further locations in Germany were buried. The terrorists Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Adelheid Schulz were caught in front of the central depot in November 1982. Shortly afterwards, RAF cadre Christian Klar was arrested at a depot in the Sachsenwald near Hamburg.
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