The Finnish Supreme Administrative Court has ruled that the Finnish Security Intelligence Service (Supo) will not have to release the so-called Rosenholz files to the media.
The Rosenholz material consists of files with information on employees of the Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (HVA), one of the intelligence agencies of the former GDR.
They mostly contain the real names of agents who worked for the HVA in former West Germany.
According to the Supreme Administrative Court, giving access to the files could jeopardise Supo’s international operation.
The material is not the same as the (in)famous “Tiitinen List”, which according to current information is a list of eighteen names derived from the West German intelligence service, whereas the Rosenholz material involves genuine East German Ministry for State Security (Stasi) documents.
