East German Intelligence and Security Service, 1917-89

The East German Intelligence and Security Service

By: David Childs, Richard Popplewell

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Hardcover | 3 November 1996 | Edition Number 13

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Second only to the KGB, the Stasi was the Soviet Bloc's most effective spy organiz-ation. Although it was employed mainly against West Germany, it successfully infiltrated NATO, the European Community, the US Department of Defense, NSA, and had agents at British and other universities. Even more sinister was its internal secret police role. It employed more informers than Hitler's Gestapo. In its efforts to bolster the sagging East German regime it used teacher against student, doctor against patient, friend against friend and even husband against wife. British experts, Childs and Popplewell, tell this amazing story for the first time in English. They reveal how the Stasi exploited ambition, idealism, fear, greed, romance and sex to gain and hold its agents. They trace the Stasi's origins in the dreaded Soviet Cheka, outline its development, structure, organization, personnel, system of rewards and punishments and much more. Based on interviews with Stasi officers and their victims, archival sources, published material, and years of personal experience, their book will be of interest both to the specialist and the general reader.

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'This book helps us fill an important gap in our understanding of both the GDR and the Soviet bloc as a whole.' - Professor Christopher Andrew, Daily Telegraph

'Childs and Popplewell give...a fine overview... well-written and enjoyable.' - Jeffrey Kopstein, Europe-Asia Studies ,University of Glasgow

'The first book in English based largely on revelations from this astonishing archive...[It] helps us fill an important gap in our understanding of both the GDR and the Soviet bloc as a whole.' - Chris Andrew, The Daily Telegraph

'A valuable work...based on detailed research, some of it in previously secret archives, and personal experience of the German communist state.' - Peter Johnson, former BBC/Reuters correspondent, East Berlin/Moscow, British-German Review

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Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations and German Terms
The Changing Names of the Soviet Domestic and Foreign Intelligence Agency
Introduction
German Communism, The Comintern and Secret Intelligence, 1918-43	p. 1
The Origins and Development of East German State Security: The Ulbricht Years, 1945-71	p. 33
The MfS, the SED and the East German State	p. 66
The MfS as an Internal Security Organ	p. 82
East German Foreign Intelligence, 1945-89	p. 112
HVA Operations Against West Germany	p. 142
From Triumph to Catastrophe: The Stasi Under Mielke and Honecker, 1971-89	p. 174
The Aftermath	p. 193
App. A: Biographical Information	p. 196
App. B: Chronology	p. 200
Bibliography	p. 203
Notes	p. 213
Name Index	p. 243
Subject Index	p. 248
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