On 24 October 1986 an investigating judge from the Federal Court in Karlsruhe issued a warrant for the arrest of Ursula Richter: "She is strongly suspected of having undertaken secret service actions in Bonn against the Federal Republic of Germany on behalf of the intelligence services of a foreign power between December 1964 and 17 October 1985." The Public Prosecutor launched an investigation. Across the internal border Ursula Richter had reverted to her former name and was living as Erika Reißmann in the Köpenick quarter of East Berlin. Supported by a monthly disability pension of 2718 Marks, she had not returned to work. As late as October 1989, while the infrastructure of the East German surveillance state crumbled, her pension application was supported by a statement from the deputy Minister for State Security: "Comrade Erika Reißmann was sent across to the Federal Republic in 1964 as a scout ("Kundschaferin"). In various jobs in Bonn she worked on a huge amount of information and a very large number of documents, giving our party and government leadership a[n otherwise] virtually closed overview of revanchist organisations in West Germany and of their planned operations against East Germany".