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Herrmann Oxfort (l.) 1975 in Berlin: When he telephoned the Senate press office, the Stasi secretly overheard
Photo: Konrad Giehr / picture-alliance / dpa
Technicians from the GDR Ministry for State Security hacked into the B-network of the Deutsche Bundespost in 1975 at the latest and were thus able to eavesdrop on the car telephones of top West Berlin politicians.
This emerges from Stasi files that SPIEGEL was able to see.
Accordingly, on May 12, 1976 at 1:38 pm an employee of the West Berlin Senate Press Office called the then Justice Senator Hermann Oxfort (FDP) in his company car and informed him that "Ulrike Meinhof will be buried here in Berlin at the weekend."
Oxfort replied: "Oh dear God." The officer continues: "That will mean that we have a hot weekend." Oxfort again: "Oh dear God."
Then the liberal Justice Senator noticed that he would not even be in Berlin on the day of the RAF terrorist's funeral.
He was relieved to see: "After me the flood."
In the minutes of another car phone conversation that Oxfort had with the governing mayor Klaus Schütz (SPD), you can read how the two debated the hijacking of an Air France plane by a German-Palestinian terrorist squad in Entebbe.
"I only hear you have set up a crisis team," said Schütz.
Oxfort: “Oh where.
Nonsense, nonsense, not a word of true. "
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