(März 2006) The chiefs of his espionage service were already concerned in late 1989 that the civic activists, who then were storming and occupying Stasi office buildings throughout East Germany, might grab the microfilm. Somebody in Mielke‘s ministry arranged for at least one set to be taken to the Berlin headquarters of the Soviet spy service, the KGB, located in the suburb of Karlshorst, from where it went to Moscow. Although other parts of Stasi foreign espionage files did fall into the hands of the CIA during the next year, the crown jewels, the foreign agent lists, did not, for the card files had been destroyed and the microfilmed versions shipped away.