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Scanners Uncover Germany's Past (millions of Stasi files, Ruh-Roh commie collaborators)
Reuters via Wired News ^
| 17 November 2003
Posted on 11/18/2003 12:41:29 PM PST by Stultis
Edited on 06/29/2004 7:10:08 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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BERLIN -- German scientists said Monday they have developed a computer system to reconstruct millions of files on informants torn up by the East German secret police -- within years rather than centuries.
After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Stasi security police tore up into jigsaw puzzle-size pieces documents on their huge network, which include meticulous observations on East Germans and foreigners deemed a threat to the state. About 15 people have been working at the Berlin archive for Stasi documents meticulously piecing together scraps by hand.
(Excerpt) Read more at wired.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: commies; communism; eastgermany; germany; intelligence; leftists; spys; stasi
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posted on
11/18/2003 12:41:31 PM PST
by
Stultis
To: Stultis
veddyinteresteeng bump
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posted on
11/18/2003 12:43:57 PM PST
by
tracer
To: DPB101; Tailgunner Joe
Ping!
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posted on
11/18/2003 12:44:00 PM PST
by
Stultis
To: Stultis
There will probably be a fire that consumes the files, or the pieces will be re-assembled one day after the statute of limitations runs on the offenses.
Okay, an attack of cynicism brought on by 8 years of living under the Clintonistas. Clintonistas were very good at gaming the handling of prosecutions and evidence to make sure that statutes of limitations ran on Clintonista crimes.
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posted on
11/18/2003 12:45:39 PM PST
by
Montfort
To: Stultis
Ruh-roh!! Zoinks! Like, let's call in Hillary! She'll know what to do with these files, Scoob!
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posted on
11/18/2003 12:48:37 PM PST
by
Prime Choice
(This Post is Rated "Conservative": May Be Too Intense for Liberal Viewers.)
To: Stultis
BUMP!
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posted on
11/18/2003 12:52:43 PM PST
by
jmstein7
To: Stultis
"Und zee truth goes marching on!"
To: Stultis
I sorry but any file reconstruction that proves that Senator McCarthy was right or that Stasi was controlling and paying American media types, or that there were communist spies working in the state department will not be covered by today's American media because it might divulge the name of a source. We also asked the European media to extend the courtesy of publishing only the Stasi files that establish that Bush did it.
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posted on
11/18/2003 12:56:27 PM PST
by
Tacis
To: Prime Choice
I bet they could have gotten away with it, if it weren't for those MEDDLING KIDS!!
To: Stultis
the Stasi security police tore up into jigsaw puzzle-size pieces documents on their huge network
Did they not have matches back then?
Who the hell would stand there and tear up hundreds of thousands of papers into little squares?
Weird, those guys - what with the tearing up papers and the genocide.
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posted on
11/18/2003 1:02:00 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: tracer; blam; Prodigal Son
veddyinteresteengClick on the "Stasi" keyword (among others) for more. Lots of commies and symps exposed already, from the leadership of the Nuclear Disarmament movement and the German socialist party to skater Katrina Witt and "journalist" Günter Wallraff (think German Michael Moore).
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posted on
11/18/2003 1:05:11 PM PST
by
Stultis
To: Stultis
I suspect a few American politicians were working for the Soviets until the collapse of the USSR, and some of them are still in politics.
Congressman Rangel of NY has a strong love affair with Castro that goes beyond the traditional leftist sympathy with commies. He also a brilliant man, the kind that the Soviets recruited to work surreptiously for the commies.
To: Stultis
Wouldn't it have been easier to BURN the files, rather than tear them up?
To: Stultis
To: danneskjold
Thank you.
To: CoolPapaBoze
To: danneskjold
Fraulein Witt...
Guten tag, schöne frau... Ich möchte sehr gern mit Dir schmuzen...
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posted on
11/18/2003 1:27:10 PM PST
by
dwd1
(M. h. D. (Master of Hate and Discontent))
To: dwd1
East Germany: Better Government through Intimidation. (Pop Quiz: What movie was that from?)
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posted on
11/18/2003 1:30:38 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(All I want for Christmas is for Ron Zook to stay as head coach (at least till next year))
To: dfwgator
It was either Gotcha, Go Trabi Go, or the one with Val Kilmer where they played tic-tac-toe with the windows...
Es tut mir leid, aber ich bin unsicher!
or as they say in Rheinland Pfalz, "Waze ich nit!"
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posted on
11/18/2003 1:33:51 PM PST
by
dwd1
(M. h. D. (Master of Hate and Discontent))
To: Rosencrantz; dead
Most savvy Intel orgs will shred or tear up files that they *want* the opposition to reconstruct.
While the good stuff either gets traded or vaporized...
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posted on
11/18/2003 1:34:57 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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