Spy who never came in from the cold

14th Nov 2006, 13:43 GMT

I well remember first meeting Markus Wolf; I guess anyone would remember meeting one of the most successful spymasters of the Cold War, the man who founded and then ran the storied and feared East German foreign spy agency. It was in 1989 shortly after the Berlin Wall was breached (he died Thursday on the anniversary of the fall), and Wolf was one of the stars of those momentous days.