Finnish daily Hufvudstadsbladet reported Friday that Riitta Juntunen, a spokeswoman at the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK), had handed 940 pages of reports to the Stasi, East Germany's notorious state security ministry, between 1979 and 1985.

The paper added that Ms Juntunen, known by the codename Kati in the Stasi's files, had been paid 70,000 West German marks for her services.

November last year, Hufvudstadsbladet quoted Petra Sauerzapf-Poser, Ms Juntunen's colleague at the German Democratic Republic's interpretation and translation bureau in Berlin, as saying that Ms Juntunen had denounced her to the Stasi.

STT