Yet only a fraction of all spies sent from the Soviet bloc to West Germany are caught. "The current estimate Is that 17.000 Communist spies are operating in West Germany. * ** Red agents also make West Berlin the kidnaping center of the world. Since the war they have tried 340 kidnapings. succeeded in 255. "West German estimates of 17.000 active agents do not include either the silent group (Polish. Czech. and Rumanian spies posing as refugees) or the 35.000 members of the outlawed West German Communist Party. "Over the years. more than 15.000 Red agents have been arrested in West Germany. Of these. fewer than 2.000 have been convicted. Many were let off because they confessed. voluntarily. not long after they entered West Germany.
Identified stereotypes
Posing as refugees to spy