The History of the Stasi
Jens Gieseke The East German Ministry for State Security stood for Stalinist oppression and all-encompassing surveillance. The shield and sword of the party, it secured the rule of the Communist Party for more than forty years, and by the 1980s it had become the largest secret-police apparatus in the world, per capita. Jens Gieseke tells the story of the Stasi, a feared secret-police force and a highly professional intelligence...
Forecasting Nuclear War
Forecasting Nuclear War: Stasi/KGB Intelligence Cooperation under Project RYaN By Bernd Schaefer, Nate Jones, and Benjamin B. Fischer Between 1981 and 1989 the foreign intelligence branches of the Soviet KGB and the East German Ministry of State Security launched a combined effort to develop a system for detecting signs of an impending western nuclear first strike. Codenamed “Project RYaN”, this early-warning system constituted one...
