 That is not true - I was what both sides needed, and knew how to use, a back channel".A few weeks later another review of Gerstner's autobiography was published, this time by , writing for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.Staadt's tone is notably less shrill than Ali's, but he does not entirely exonerate Gerstner of the implicit charge that his memoire is excessively selective in its treatment of the Stasi connections.