By GEIR MOULSON

Associated Press Writer

BERLIN (AP) Katarina Witt will not block the release of extracts of the file East Germany's secret police held on her.

In February, a Berlin court granted Witt a temporary injunction preventing the release of 181 pages of the file compiled by Stasi.

On Wednesday, the government agency administering the files said Witt's lawyer informed the court she is withdrawing her complaint.

Efforts to reach Witt's lawyers were not immediately successful.

Witt was a product of former East Germany's powerful sports system. She won gold in 1984 at Sarajevo and four years later in Calgary, making her only the second woman to win back-to-back Olympic figure skating titles.

She, along with other top athletes, enjoyed extra privileges under the Communist regime of former East German leader Erich Honecker - among them freedom to travel abroad.

The East German government relentlessly spied on its citizens, and the Stasi kept a network of 85,000 full-time spies and 170,000 voluntary informers. Witt has acknowledged she had contact with the secret police but denies she ever worked for the Stasi.

Witt's case was helped by former Chancellor Helmut Kohl's successful legal campaign to keep his own file closed on the grounds that the wiretaps were illegal and that he should not be victimized twice.

In a decision in March that had broad implications for public access to the communist-era spy files, a federal court upheld a ruling in Kohl's favor that said protection for victims of the Stasi outweighed the value of releasing the spy records on public figures to historians and journalists.

But the Stasi archive administration has said it still planned to release those documents on Witt that are not covered by her status as a victim.

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