Meanwhile, communist Germans set up fledgling political police and information structures. In the chaos of the occupation period, 1945–49, the KGB staked an outpost in Berlin-Karlshorst and conducted internal and external operations from the Soviet-occupied territory of East German soil.
Historyīorn during the Cold War division of Germany, the Stasi developed in the image of the KGB with a German personality. What the general public does not know is that technology was at the heart of the KGB’s (Soviet Committee for State Security) and the Stasi’s spying operations against the United States and the West. The general public already knows that husbands spied on wives and children on parents and that East Germany was probably the most known spied-upon country in world history. By examining the interplay between secrecy and technology at one of the most effective and feared spy agencies and secret police in the world, we can also do what all spy agencies fear: reveal the Stasi’s secret spy-tech methods and sources.ĭespite the little-known fact that almost half of all its agents planted in the West were stealing scientific and technical secrets and that more than eight thousand staff members at headquarters worked on providing James Bond–like technology to support espionage and security, the Stasi is primarily associated with the omnipresent informer. The book “Seduced by Secrets” takes a radically different approach to the history of the MfS/Stasi by bringing the story into the realm of intelligence history and distancing itself from politically charged commentary. They have to be patiently excavated like artifacts at an archeological dig. Stasi or the East German Ministry for State Security (MfS/Stasi) and its Secrets.
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