BILD: Marika Ryokk was a Soviet intelligence officer

The Bild newspaper published fragments of declassified documents from the Archive of the Federal Intelligence Service of Germany (BND), which indirectly indicate that the star of German cinema of the 1930s and 1940s Marika Ryokk collaborated with Soviet intelligence.

According to the Bild publication, in the 1940s she transmitted important information to the USSR about the military plans of the Third Reich, including intelligence, related to the Barbarossa operation and the Battle of Kursk.

The actress was recruited by her agent Hinz Hoffmeister, she was a member of the Crohn intelligence network under the leadership of Jan Chernyak, which included more than 30 agents - bankers, military and officials. Also among the Krona agents was the husband of Marika Ryokk, director George Jacobi, and actress Olga Chekhova.

In the documents of the Golena organization, the predecessors of BND , the first references to the possible role of Marika Ryokk in the collection of intelligence for the USSR dates back to 1951. These documents were considered top -secret for 50 years, and only now they were first published in Bild .

Marika Ryokk (1913–2004) starred in Germany since the mid-1930s, in 1941 she played in the first German color film “Women-Still Best Diplomats” ( Frauen Sind Doch Bessere Diplomaten ), her most famous work in the film was the role in the 1944 musical comedy “Girl of my dreams” ( Die Frau Meiner träume ).

After the Second World War, the American occupation administration suspected the actress in collaboration with the Nazis, notes The Guardian , and forbade her to perform in Germany and Austria for two years, although she did not star in any propaganda film. Marika Ryokk resumed work in the cinema and on stage in the 1950s. The filmography of the actress has 38 films, the last of which was released in 1988.