Wilhelm Dietl
Biography
Wilhelm Dietl (* 1955 in Kötzting ) is a German journalist and intelligence expert.
Dietl, born in 1955, began training as an editor at a local newspaper in 1971 before he even finished school. He later moved to the Erdinger local edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. From 1979 to 1990 he worked for the illustrated magazine Quick and was temporarily its chief reporter and chief correspondent. At the same time, he worked as a freelance author for Stern and Der Spiegel. From 1993 to 2004 Dietl worked for the news magazine Focus.
Dietl's frequent trips abroad brought him to the attention of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND). Under the code name "Dali," he traveled to the countries of the Near and Middle East as well as South and Central Asia on behalf of the BND, providing the BND with data on military equipment and the political and economic development of the respective countries. In 1993, he left the BND after publicly criticizing the role of State Minister Bernd Schmidbauer in the release of two kidnapped German hostages in Lebanon.
