Government snitches on every block -- that's the plan of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

"As of Jan. 1, the consulting contract of Gen. Oleg Kalugin, KGB (Ret)with the Department of State Security will be ending... Kalugin is going to be replaced with the infamous and sinister 'Silver Fox' himself (his former CIA code name), Gen. Markus Wolf," writes political analyst Al Martin in his column on Al Martin Raw.com (www.almartinraw.com)

Markus Wolf was the head of the international intelligence gathering arm (HVA) of East Germany's Ministry for State Security (MfS), or Stasi. Under Wolf (1958 to 1987), Stasi ran a network of about 4,000 agents outside East Germany, infiltrating NATO headquarters and the administration of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt.

Stasi and Wolf himself, however, were best known for their network of informants inside East Germany. There were spies on every block, as it were, who would report "suspicious" activities back to Stasi headquarters.