East German Foreign Intelligence : Myth, Reality and Controversy

ISBN-13: 9780415484428 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 247 str.

Kristie Macrakis;Thomas Wegener Friis;Helmut Müller-Enbergs

Opis

This book contains essays by an international group of scholars on the East German foreign intelligence, focusing on the key areas of: Politics, Scientific-Technical and Military Intelligence, and Counter-Intelligence.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments.  Introduction  Part 1: Intelligence and Counterintelligence  1. Counterintelligence in Postwar Europe, 1945-65 Nigel West  2. Western Espionage and Stasi Counterespionage, 1953-61 Paul Maddrell  3. The Rise and Fall of West German Intelligence Operations against East Germany Erich Schmidt-Eenboom  4. Deaf, Dumb and Blind: The CIA and East Germany Benjamin Fischer  5. Rosenholz: Mischa’s Files, CIA’s Booty Robert Gerald Livingston  Part 2: Political Intelligence  6. Political Espionage: Foci and Sources Helmut Müller-Enbergs  7. Active Measures and Disinformation as Part of East Germany’s Propaganda War, 1953-1972 Michael Scholz  8. Foreign Intelligence under the Roof of a Ministry for State Security Bernd Lippmann  9. East German Espionage in Denmark Thomas W. Friis  10. How the MfS’s Worldview Affected the Intelligence Cycle: A Study Based on Operations against the Netherlands Beatrice de Graaf  Part 3: Scientific-Technical and Military Intelligence  11. The Crown Jewels and the Importance of Scientific-Technical Intelligence Kristie Macrakis  12. The Professionalization of Soviet Military Espionage under Khruschev, 1953-64 Matthias Uhl  13. BND Military Espionage in East Germany Armin Wagner

O autorze

Thomas Wegener Friis is an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Denmark’s Centre for Cold War Studies. Kristie Macrakis is Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Helmut Müller-Enbergs was a Visiting Professor at the University of Southern Denmark 2008-09 and holds a tenured senior staff position at the German Federal Commission for the Stasi Archives in Berlin.