Its activity as a V-man brought good contacts to Mauss to police authorities (among other things Federal Criminal Investigation Office), to secret services (Federal Intelligence Service) and into the policy. Into the 1990er years were enough the contacts also in the Office of the Federal Chancellor. Direct partner was there for Mauss the secret service co-ordinator of the government Helmut Kohl, Bernd Schmidbauer.

The name of Mauss is brought with a set of cases in connection. The exact operational sequence and its participation are however only partially enlightened, which contributes to the legend formation. Thus the name Mauss is called in connection with finding the Seveso poison, with the arrest of the presumed RAF terrorist Rolf Pohle in Athens, with the release of the Hisbollah hostages Rudolf Cordes and Alfred Schmidt in Lebanon and with the feedback of the robbed Cologne cathedral treasure.

The most look up-exciting case, with which Mauss was brought ever in connection, was the Barschel affair, at the time at that time the largest Politskandal in postwar Germany. The press reported on it that the Federal Information Service was to have had a man in Geneva hotels "“Beau the Rivage"”, in the Barschel was dead found. The Federal Intelligence Service however indicated to have no realizations over the death. Mauss explained later in an interview to have at present used from Barschels death actually coincidentally in the same hotel. It was on a return flight from South America to Germany and only on the next day in the press of the incident experienced.

Center of the 1980er years Mauss strengthened in South America actively, particularly in Colombia. Here it - first on behalf the company Mannesmann AG - was assigned, in order to intersperse the building of a pipeline project approximately resistances of the Guerilla ELN. From this time it seized the contacts into the 1990er years, when it along-negotiated in several cases the release of European hostages from the hand of the Guerilla.

The exact circumstances and its role thereby were analyzed by different observers. On 17 November 1996 the Colombian police in arrested it, when it wanted to leave the country with from the Guerilla released German hostage. It and its wife remained several months in remand. By the arrest there were for the first time public photos of Mauss. Finally the preliminary investigation became to 20. May 1998 adjusted and the married couple Mauss in all points acquitted ( so mentioned after Colombian right). The court explained the arrest, which was based according to the married couple on a plot, for illegal.

Against initial medium reports, release funds flowed, proceeded Mauss after end of the Colombian procedure legally, them had to be corrected. Schmidbauer avowed later, the contacts of the married couple Mauss to the ELN, which he arranged, ran from view of the Federal Government transparency and with this co-ordinated.

The married couple Mauss returned to Germany. Subsequently, Mauss tried to use its contacts to the ELN, in order to knock against in Europe peace negotiations. 1998 met representatives of the Colombian civil company in Mainz with leaders of the Guerilla.

Today Mauss with its family in Germany on a fortress-like removed messuage lives.

At the beginning of of 2004 was announced by the Ullstein publishing house for April 2004 a book "“M. - an agent life"” (ISBN 3550075871). On the book illustrated in the announcement Mauss was shown, as a CO author beside Mauss the specialized technical and secret service expert William Dietl ("“the Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigations story"” among other things) was called. The book appeared however never, in November took the Ullstein publishing house the book without indication of reasons from the program.

Literature

• Stefan Aust: Mauss, a German agent, Goldmann publishing house, 1999, ISBN 3455086411

Related links

• Web operational readiness level Werner Mauss
• German Bundestag: Print 13/6953 of 17.02.1997, answer of the Federal Government on a "“small request"” for the role of the Federal Government in connection with the actions Mauss' in Colombia
• Frontispiece of '' M. - an agent life '' (not appeared)

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