Jeffrey Carney

Jeffrey Martin Carney ( born September 25, 1963 in Cincinnati ) was an American agent of the GDR.

Jeffrey Carney was a sergeant in the sigint the U.S. Air Force in the radar equipment Marie Felde in Berlin.

At the border crossing Friedrichstrasse / Zimmerstraße he reported to employees of the Ministry of State Security of the German Democratic Republic and signed up as a source of the Main Intelligence. Carney was awarded the Medal of Merit in bronze NVA and the Medal of the brotherhood of arms in gold.

After his transfer back to the U.S. in 1984, he fled Mexico in 1985 on the GDR, where he was also employed in the communications intelligence and naturalized in 1987 under the name of Jens Karney. After German reunification, he was West German identity papers.

By agents of the U.S. Secret Service United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations, he was kidnapped on April 22, 1991 in Berlin on the street and taken to the process in the United States. Neither then nor later years since there were diplomatic protest by the German government about the fact that the abduction had taken place on German soil.

After serving a twelve-year prison sentence in Fort Leavenworth, the German authorities refused to recognize him as a citizen. Jeffrey Carney now lives in the U.S. state of Ohio. In August 2013, he published his memoirs under the title Against All Enemies: An American 's Cold War Journey.