Court rejects Alpo Rusi call to publish Stasi lists

Helsinki District Court on Wednesday rejected calls by Ambassador Alpo Rusi to make public the so-called Stasi lists.
      Rusi, who had been investigated for alleged cooperation with the East German security service Stasi in the 1970s, had demanded that lists kept secret by the state on contacts between Finns and the Soviet KGB be made public.
      The demand was linked with the court case in which Rusi is demanding compensation for EUR 500,000 from the state for a groundless investigation. Rusi feels that the documents would shed light on why he was the focus of an investigation.


Previously in HS International Edition:
  Most damaging part of Stasi intelligence-gathering was flow of information to KGB (6.5.2004)
  Alpo Rusi: More than a year of silent torment over espionage allegations (16.9.2003)
  Alpo Rusi accuses Security Police of political conspiracy (16.9.2003)
  State Prosecutor: no evidence of aggravated espionage in Rusi case (12.6.2003)
  Parliamentary Ombudsman: Security Police did not break law in Rusi investigation (4.2.2005)
  Itälä defends decision to inform opposition leader of Rusi espionage investigation (14.1.2005)
  TV report: Ville Itälä leaked information on Rusi espionage suspicions (13.1.2005)