{"id":6997,"date":"2017-09-17T16:01:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T14:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/17\/institution-m-the-german-spy-on-trial-for-evading-millions-in-tax\/"},"modified":"2017-09-17T16:01:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T14:01:42","slug":"institution-m-the-german-spy-on-trial-for-evading-millions-in-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=6997","title":{"rendered":"Institution M: the German spy on trial for evading millions in tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From negotiating with Hezbollah to tracing stolen toxic waste, Werner Mauss was one of Germany\u2019s most prolific secret agentsIn secret service circles, he was either known as \u201cInstitution M\u201d or \u201cThe Man with Nine Fingers\u201d, because of a missing digit on his left hand. Locals in his village thought he was called \u201cRichard Nelson\u201d but his bank clerk knew him as \u201cClaus M\u00f6llner\u201d. Politicians at the top of government simply referred to their top secret agent as \u201c007\u201d.For at least three decades Werner Mauss was Germany\u2019s real-life answer to James Bond: a rogue operator who moved in the shadowy realm between criminal underworld and intelligence agencies, entrapping drug dealers, retrieving stolen goods, negotiating with terrorists, often changing identity on his private plane mid-air. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/sep\/17\/institution-m-the-german-spy-on-trial-for-tax-evasion-werner-mauss\" target=\"_blank\">Institution M: the German spy on trial for evading millions in tax<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From negotiating with Hezbollah to tracing stolen toxic waste, Werner Mauss was one of Germany\u2019s most prolific secret agentsIn secret service circles, he was either known as \u201cInstitution M\u201d or \u201cThe Man with Nine Fingers\u201d, because of a missing digit on his left hand. Locals in his village thought he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}