Title: Great Insight
Review: This book sat on the shelf for years, I just didn't get around to it until now. I was missing something exceptional. It is a great overview of Stasi operations. It is divided by target. There are sections on internal security, foreign collection by target i.e the US, and West Germany (further divided into sections on politicians, diplomats, military). It shows how the Stasi tried to intimidate their own citizens and how effective they were at collecting on their neighbors (including their Warsaw Pact allies). They were the KGB's loyal attack dog throughout the Cold War. The Stasi were good and had money to spend. The author writes well and the book doesn't read like an academic study. It is full of "war stories" about HUMINT operations.
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