Alpo Rusi is a Finnish diplomat in the Cabinet staff of the President of the UN General Assembly. He is now the ambassador of Finland to the Vatican.

Espionage investigation

In 2003 the Finnish Security Police (SUPO) investigated Alpo Rusi of espionage on behalf of the Stasi

Stasi

The Ministry for State Security The Ministry for State Security The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), commonly known as the Stasi (abbreviation , literally State Security), was the official state security service of East Germany. The MfS was headquartered...

 between 1969 and 1976. Although Rusi's brother Jukka Rusi

Jukka Rusi

Jukka Rusi was known for supplying both East Germany and the Soviet Union with Finnish documents in 1973 - 1977, which he confessed. His Stasi code was XV/11/69.His younger brother Alpo Rusi was famously investigated.-External links:...

 had been in contact with the East Germany and the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

, it turned out that there was no credible evidence that Alpo Rusi had been.

Rusi asserted that SUPO had political motives for investigating him. Rusi and his friend Olli Rehn

Olli Rehn

Olli Ilmari Rehn is a Finnish politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs. He had previously served as Commissioner for Enlargement...

 asked why Rusi was singled out and why SUPO had not investigated any of the 18 names on the so-called Tiitinen list

Tiitinen list

The Tiitinen list is a Finnish classified government document which was given by West Germany to the Finnish Security Police in 1990. The list consists of the names of 18 persons who are suspected to have been in contact with the East German security service Stasi. The people are popularly...

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