East German foreign intelligence
Subtitle: myth, reality and controversy
By: edited by Kristie Macrakis, Thomas Wegener Friis and Helmut Müller-Enbergs.
Contributors: Macrakis, Kristie.; Friis, Thomas Wegener, 1975-; Müller-Enbergs, Helmut.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780415484428; 9780203873021
Subjects: Intelligence service -- Germany (East) -- History; Espionage, East German -- History; Spies -- Germany (East) -- History
Description: "We have assembled an international group of scholars to examine East German foreign intelligence as a historical problem in the intelligence areas of: politics, scientific-technical and military intelligence and counter-intelligence. Themes and topics that run through the volume include the espionage wars; the relationship to the KGB; the successes and failures of the BND [Bundesnachrichtendienst] in East Germany and the reverse; the CIA and the HV A [Hauptverwaltung A]; the HV A in countries outside of West Germany; disinformation; and the role and importance of scientific-technical and military intelligence gathering"--Page 6.
Table of contents: title: Counterintelligence in postwar Europe, 1945-65 / Nigel West; title: Western espionage and Stasi counterespionage, 1953-61 / Paul Maddrell; title: The rise and fall of West German intelligence operations against East Germany / Erich Schmidt-Eenboom; title: Deaf, dumb and blind : the CIA and East Germany / Benjamin Fischer; title: Rosenholz : Mischa's files, CIA's booty / Robert Gerald Livingston; title: Political espionage : foci and sources / Helmut Müller-Enbergs; title: Active measures and disinformation as part of East Germany's propaganda war, 1953-1972 / Michael Scholz; title: Foreign intelligence under the roof of a ministry for state security / Bernd Lippmann; title: East German espionage in Denmark / Thomas W. Friis; title: How the MfS's worldview affected the intelligence cycle : a study based on operations against the Netherlands / Beatrice de Graaf; title: The crown jewels and the importance of scientific-technical intelligence / Kristie Macrakis; title: The professionalization of Soviet military espionage under Khruschev, 1953- 64 / Matthias Uhl; title: BND military espionage in East Germany / Armin Wagner.