Heinz Sütterlin
In November 1969, the New York Times reported that Heinz Sütterlin, a press photographer, was sentenced in West Germany to seven years in prison for handing over state secrets to the Communists. The judge said Sütterlin was aided by his wife Leonore, a secretary in the Foreign Office. In reality, Sütterlin was a trained KGB agent sent to West Germany to recruit a mole within the government. Another agent had identified potentially vulnerable Foreign Ministry employees, among them Leonore Heinz. Under the guise of being afraid of the Cold War, Sütterlin asked his wife to smuggle documents out of her office for him to look at. She complied, suspecting nothing. For years, she brought home documents each lunchtime that he photographed and passed onto the KGB. Leonore committed suicide four days after the couple were arrested in October, 1967.