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De Graaf, Beatrice.

1. "Détente from Below: The Stasi and the Dutch Peace Movement." Journal of Intelligence History 3, no. 2 (Winter 2003). [http://www.intelligence-history.org/jih/previous.html]

From abstract: "During a period when the Cold War returned to icy conditions (1979-1983) the East German Politburo and the Stasi unleashed a campaign to influence Dutch public opinion against the impending deployment of new NATO missiles.... East German communists used the openings of détente and funded the Dutch peace movement. However successful the East German campaign was in the beginning, they experienced a heavy setback."

2. "Stasi Operations in the Netherlands, 1979-89." Studies in Intelligence 52, no. 1 (Extracts - Mar. 2008): 1-12.

This article investigates "what the MfS was after in and against the Netherlands and to what extent these operations were affected by its thinking about the enemy."

Dennis, Mike. The Stasi: Myth and Reality. London: Pearson Education Ltd., 2003.

Peake, Studies 47.4 (2003), finds that the author provides considerable detail "about the Stasi [East German Ministry of State Security (MfS)] case officers, their recruitment techniques, and the types of sources they cultivated.... The Stasi myth was the belief that its efficiency could overcome communist inefficiency; the reality was that it could not."

Der Spiegel. "Spying Comes In from the Cold War." World Press Review 39, no. 3 (March 1992): 7-12.

Fischer, Ben B. "The Guillaume Affair Revisited: Success or Failure?" Center for the Study of Intelligence Bulletin 8 (Spring 1998): 7-9.

Guillaume's arrest as an East German spy in 1974 had repercussions on both sides of the Iron Curtain, including a very unhappy Brezhnev. "To the end of his life, [East German party boss Erich] Honecker claimed he did not even know about Guillaume.... Even if Honecker did not 'know'..., years later he gave Guillaume a national hero's welcome ... when he ... [was] released from a West German prison."

Fischer, Benjamin B. "Markus Wolf and the CIA Mole." Center for the Study of Intelligence Bulletin 10 (Winter 2000): 8-9.

Fischer tells the story of the work of the CIA's penetration agent in East German intelligence (then called the Institute for Economic Research) from 1950 to 1953. When Gotthold Krauss finally defected to the West, he brought with him "a treasure trove of counterintelligence information."

Fischer, Ben B. "'One of the Biggest Ears in the World': East German SIGINT Operations." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 11, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 142-153.

"Main Department ... III of the Ministry of State Security (MfS) made a major contribution to [East Germany's] foreign intelligence with its extensive SIGINT operations and should be ranked among the cold war's major technical collection services."

Förster, Günter. Die Juristische Hochschule des Ministerium für Staatsicherheit. Berlin: State Ombudsman for the Documents of the Former East German State Security Service, 1996.

This report calls the MfS School of Law "an academic secret service institution in the form of a 'technical-administrative' university with a very pronounced ideological orientation." Quoted in Adams, IJI&C 13.1/24.

Fricke, Karl Wilhelm. MfS Intern: Macht, Strukturen, Auflösung der DDR-Staatsicherheit. Cologne: Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, 1991.

Cited in Adams, IJI&C 13.1/32/fn. 6.

Funder, Anna. Stasiland. London: Granta, 2003.

According to Peake, Studies 47.4 (2003), the author "portrays life 'beyond the Wall' in vivid terms through the stories she learned from former Stasi officers, Stasi victims, and those going through the Stasi files captured after the collapse of East Germany." This collection of personal accounts is "told in a nimble but somber style.... There are no sources cited." However, "[t]his is a disturbing yet valuable book about ordinary life in an extraordinary authoritarian state."

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