http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/print/politik/629625.html
A mysterious death and a suspicion A high Federal Intelligence Service (BND) official died in a Munich hospital - realtives belive he has been poisoned BERLIN. It seemed to be first only a tragic death, which occurred in past December, a week before Christmas, in the Munich clinical center Gross-Hadern. A patient, who had been hospitalized a few weeks earlier because of mysterious paralysis features and about to improvement, had deceased abruptly. The family of the man was shocked, since a dismissal of the 57yrs old man to the holidays seemed to be for sure. Physicians seemed to be helpless, but excluded medical malpractice categorically. In the meantime the public prosecutor's office in Munich is investigating the case, and an enormous suspicion is going to emerge: Before he died the patient told his relatives that he is supicious to be poisoned and that he has knowledge of the attackers. If this should be true, the case would get a political dimension since the deceased Ulrich Woessner, a high-ranking official of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), who was amongst the central figures of the recent BND affair and was considered as an important witness to the Bundestag committee of inquiry. Facts are so far meager. A first autopsy immediately after death had resulted in no remarkablenesses. But when relatives expressed suspicions of medical malpractice to authorities, the public prosecutor's office opened a death preliminary investigation. According to a statement by Munich senior public prosecutor Winkler medical investigastions are still underway, results are expected earliest in a week. Authorities look now as well for traces of poison, amongst them nuclear material like polonium. Winkler stressed that so far no indications of poison were found, "We follow therefore so far only to the suspicion of a possible medical malpractice." Investigations are not for homicide, but should any trace of poison be found it has to be altered. Woessner joined in the 1970s the Federal Intelligence Service, where he was run by the pseudonym "Doring". He achieved his highest position in summer 1998 as head of the departement of internal security. His predecessor, was veteran director of Federal Intelligence Service Volker Foertsch, who was sacked in the range of a never-solved affair on Russian moles in the agency. Woessner was involved as section chief of internal security. Becoming 1998 new head of internal security Wössner started illegal spying on journalists, already practiced of its predecessor, and forced co-operatian with media represantatives, which is forbidden by BND rules. Woessner gave the order to search waste paper bags of journalist and secret service expert Erich Schmidt-Eenboom for BND material. At the same time he gave order to recruit Schmidt-Eenboom to spy on journalists - without success. For medical reasons Woessner resignated in 2002 as head of internal security and became deputy branch head of the acquisition departement, where he was responsible for co-operation with foreign intelligence agencies. He emphasized on US agencies. His knowledge and role played on alleged German support for US agencies during 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom remains unknown. Woessner's recent illness had strong similarities with the last illness. Also at that time physicians were not able to determine clearly cause and kind of the illness. In 2002 Woessner runned a diary on the course of disease, but it is not known whether he did so this time. So far actual recordings over the hospitalization were not found. Berliner Zeitung, 17.02.2007 +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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