
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, November 25, 1993                   TAG: 9311250207
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: HOLIDAY 
SOURCE: From Associated Press reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

WITT TARGET OF SCRUTINY BY POLICE

Olympic figure skating champion Katarina Witt claims the Communist secret police had her under such close tabs that they even knew when she was having sex.

Witt, in an interview with the magazine Sports in Hamburg, Germany, said she was the target of intense scrutiny by Communist East Germany's secret police, the Stasi.

"I was really trapped, as in a spider's web," Witt said.

Witt, the 1984 and '88 Olympic gold medalist who is attempting a comeback, was one of East Germany's best known stars, and was known's as "Socialism's prettiest face."

Excerpts of the interview were published Wednesday in advance of the magazine's appearance on the newstands later this week.

Witt said her upcoming autobiography will include portions of the thorough files the Stasi kept on her, but it won't reveal the names of people who spied on her.

She said the Stasi kept her under such close surveillance, that once it even recorded the length of her sexual intercourse.

by CNB