>“This is Super-Watergate,” Klaus-Dietmar Henke, who helped lead the study, told The Washington Post. “Richard Nixon sent his cronies to break into the Watergate Hotel, but they failed. This instrumentalization worked for 10 years. They got 500 reports, sometimes 10 to 12 each day, about the most secret decisions of the opposite parties. And it stayed a secret for 50 to 60 years.”
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>“This is Super-Watergate,” Klaus-Dietmar Henke, who helped lead the study, told The Washington Post. “Richard Nixon sent his cronies to break into the Watergate Hotel, but they failed. This instrumentalization worked for 10 years. They got 500 reports, sometimes 10 to 12 each day, about the most secret decisions of the opposite parties. And it stayed a secret for 50 to 60 years.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/04/08/konrad-adenauer-spying-german-watergate/
*Süddeutsche Zeitung:*
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/adenauer-watergate-spionieren-1.5563729 (short version)
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artikel/politik/deutschlands-watergate-wie-adenauer-die-spd-ausspionieren-liess-e506616/ (long version; paywall)