Walter Kopp

Walter Kopp (1913 in Alsenz – 1974 in Gauting[1]) was a lieutenant colonel in the Wehrmacht in Nazi Germany. After the Nazi defeat in 1945, he became the chief of one stay-behind network in West Germany, code-named KIBITZ-15.[2] The British and US intelligence services had set up clandestine anti-communist organisations supposed to "stay-behind" in case of a Soviet invasion. Walter Kopp was described by his own North-American handlers as an "unreconstructed Nazi,"[3] and the KIBITZ-15 network as "a group with Nazi tendencies"[4] in CIA documents released in June 2006.

In May 1945 Kopp wrote a letter to High Commissioner McCloy stating that he and a group of his friends were concerned over what might happen in case of a Russian invasion of Germany and wished to place themselves at the disposal of the Americans. Walter Kopp was later made chief agent of the KIBITZ stay-behind network.[5]

In May 1953 Kopp's contract with the CIA was terminated "on the friendliest terms".[6]

In 1968 he was Liaison officer of the Military District Command in Munich to the political parties.[7]