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A Rare Look at the Archives of the German Secret Police
Wired ^ | 5/11 | Charley Locke

Posted on 05/21/2017 4:28:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: DesertRhino

The Stasi needed and got the cooperation of neighbors, relatives, etc to get a fraction of the information which our agencies get freely with our cooperation.


21 posted on 05/21/2017 6:46:16 PM PDT by Western Phil
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To: fluorescence

Also photographs every package sent through the mail.


22 posted on 05/21/2017 7:11:13 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: nickcarraway
Interesting podcast interview with former KGB agent Jack Barsky, who was from East Germany and spied on the U.S.
23 posted on 05/21/2017 7:26:50 PM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
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To: nickcarraway

Heck facebook and other social media forums make the stasi look like child’s play.


24 posted on 05/21/2017 7:32:00 PM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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To: nickcarraway

Heck facebook and other social media forums make the stasi look like child’s play.


25 posted on 05/21/2017 7:40:07 PM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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To: plain talk

A BIG PING!!!


26 posted on 05/21/2017 7:54:32 PM PDT by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I recently learned of a German TV drama in the same setting, “Weissensee”. It’s been described as “Romeo and Juliet in East Berlin”.


27 posted on 05/21/2017 8:39:26 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: minnesota_bound

Didn’t George Orwell say that the BBC was Big Brother?


28 posted on 05/22/2017 8:32:27 AM PDT by nickcarraway (W)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

bkmk


29 posted on 05/26/2017 2:16:19 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44 (If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.)
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