Harry Dahl (7 August 1929-) was a Colonel of the Stasi of East Germany during the Cold War.
Biography[]
Harry Dahl was born in Schoenebeck, Weimar Republic on 7 August 1929, and he attended the police military academy in 1949 before becoming a cultural director in the police in 1952. In 1956, he moved to the Stasi, and he became a colonel in 1974 after rising through the ranks. From 1975 to 1985, he led Division XXII, which was responsible for terrorism; he had his underling Helmut Voigt attempt to stop Carlos the Jackal's henchman Johannes Weinrich from receiving explosives from the Syrian embassy. However, Dahl was secretly involved with assisting the Red Army Faction in West Germany, giving RAF members new identities and giving them citizenship in East Germany before the Cold War's end in 1990.