1 The legends that surround Mauss are more fantastic than most spy thrillers. A “plausibly deniable” agent for the German state, newspapers were forbidden to publish his photograph in the 1970s for fear that this would compromise his operations. According to Olivier Schmidt, Mauss was deeply involved in coordinating counterinsurgency operations against the RAF in this period and allegedly arranged for certain leading businessmen to pay the secret services for additional protection. (“Free Agent ‘Werner Mauss’ Gets Caught,” Intelligence 50, December 16, 1996).

2 Karl-Ludwig Günsche and Hans Werner Loose, “Werner Mauss 40 years of fighting against criminality,” Die Welt July 31, 1998.

1 Associated Press, “Terrorist kidnapper jailed for extortion,” European Stars and Stripes, March 12, 1978. Pohle was finally released in 1982, at which point he did not rejoin the guerilla, but returned to Greece. He eventually found a job at the Athens daily Eleftherotypia, where he worked until his death from cancer in 2004. (Associated Press, “Deaths: Rolf Pohle,” The Daily Globe, February 10, 2004).

2 Craig R. Whitney, “Treaty Seen to Block Asylum for Terrorists,” Salt Lake Tribune, September 3, 1976.

3 Corpus Christi Times, “Police building hit by bomb,” December 17, 1976.

1 Andreas Baader on the Geneva Convention, cf 467-8.

1 On July 22, 1976, Brigitte Mohnhaupt used her trial testimony to rebut claims about the RAF’s allegedly hierarchical structure. Short excerpts from this statement are reprinted in this volume on pages 173 and 355-8. A less refined translation of the entire statement is available online at http://www.germanguerilla.com/red-armyfaction/documents/76_0708_mohnhaupt_pohl.html.

2 The French playwright and existentialist philosopher had visited Baader in Stammheim during the third hunger strike, decrying the isolation conditions as torture which “provokes deficits in the prisoner; it leads him to stupefaction or to death.” See “The Slow Death of Andreas Baader by Jean-Paul Sartre” http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/1974/baader.htm.

3 Karl Scharf was at this time the Lutheran Bishop of West Berlin.

4 This paragraph is very much directed at the arguments made in the Letter from the RAF to the RAF prisoners, cf 338.

1 The RZ and Rote Zora regularly distributed forged public transit passes.

2 Klaus Wagenbach is a prominent left-wing publisher with his roots in the APO. He read the eulogy at Ulrike Meinhof’s funeral.

3 Peter Brückner was a left-wing psychologist loosely connected to the Frankfurt School. In 1972, he was suspended from his position at the Technical University in Hannover for allegedly lending the RAF material support (most likely shelter), a charge based on Karl-Heinz Ruhland’s questionable testimony (Varon, 239-240). In 1978, he was once again suspended for taking a public stand against the repressive atmosphere the state was attempting to engender through its suppression of Buback: In Memoriam (see pages 534-35). He died in 1982 while still appealing the details of this suspension. (Braunthal, 98)

4 §88a, which criminalized literature which “glorifies violence,” passed into law on January 16, 1976.

1 Berberich is purposefully using the acronym for the Nazi SS to indicate state security, or Staatsicherheit.

2 Institute for the Study of Conflict, an “antiterrorist” thinktank based in London, England.