Macrakis, Kristie. "The Case of Agent Gorbachev." Intelligencer 12, no. 1 (Summer 2001): 10-19. Reprinted from American Scientist 88 (Nov.-Dec. 2000).
Stasi "Agent Gorbachev" (probably from Wodka Gorbatschow, a Berlin vodka) was West German physicist Hans Rehder who worked at Telefunken and AEG. The author found this prized Stasi agent's file and is using it here as a "window onto the workings of scientific and technical espionage during the Cold War."
Macrakis, Kristie. "Does Effective Espionage Lead to Success in Science and Technology? Lessons from the East German Ministry for State Security." Intelligence and National Security 19, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 52-77.
The East German Ministry of State Security (MfS) "developed effective general espionage methods for collecting and evaluating scientific material during the Cold War. Unfortunately, East Germany could not always sucessfully integrate the material into its economy or science system."
Macrakis, Kristie. Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Poteat, Intelligencer 16.1 (Spring 2008), sees this work as "the result of years of meticulous, scholarly research into the secret Stasi archives recovered by CIA after the Berlin wall came down," as well as "extensive interviews conducted in Germany with former Stasi officials.... The book is assuredly a must for those spy literature aficionados interested in real, as opposed to fictional, spy stories."
After noting instances where the author's "use of English tradecraft terms is inaccurate," Peake. Studies 52.3 (Sep. 2008) adds that this work represents "fine scholarship and [is] a valuable and unique contribution to intelligence literature." Legvold, FA 87.6 (Nov.-Dec. 2008), comments that Macrakis' "research ... is prodigious." However, "the detail is somewhat overwhelming and, at times, repetitive. But one comes away ... with a well-tutored sense of the scale and the precise nature of East German ... industrial and military espionage."
Fischer, IJI&C 22.1 (Spring 2009), finds that this work covers both the MfS and the HV A. The author brings to her task "a historian's commitment to in-depth research, a novelist's eye for illuminating detail, and an innate curiosity about the nature, purpose, and methods of intelligence." For Arpin, NWCR 62.2 (Spring 2009), this is an "interesting, if somewhat disjointed" work. The author "conveys a deep understanding of German thought and attitudes, but her lack of knowledge on intelligence matters unfortunately limits her understanding of her chosen topic" and "prevents her from presenting real insights."
Maddrell, Paul. "The Scientist Who Came in from the Cold: Heinz Barwich's Flight from the GDR." Intelligence and National Security 20, no. 4 (Dec. 2005): 608-630.
Based on documents from the GDR Ministry of State Security (MfS), the author concludes that Barwich began spying for the CIA around September 1962 in exchange for assistance in getting his family out of the GDR when he carried out his planned defection. He, then, defected in 1964. Barwich "is the most distinguished scientist to spy for the CIA yet to be revealed."
See Heinz and Elfriede Barwich, Das Rote Atom (Munich and Bern: Scherz Verlag, 1967).
Maddrell, Paul. "The Western Secret Services, the East German Ministry of State Security and the Building of the Berlin Wall." Intelligence and National Security 21, no. 5 (Oct. 2006): 829-847.
Although "the Communists' principal motive for closing the sectoral border in Berlin was to stop the flight of refugees..., the border closure was also motivated by security considerations.... [T]he Western secret services did not fail to see what might happen" and, in fact, "made extensive preparations to ensure that their operations could continue in the harder conditions which would ensue."
Maddrell, Paul. “What We Have Discovered about the Cold War Is What We Already Knew: Julius Mader and the Western Secret Services during the Cold War.” Cold War History 5, no. 2 (May 2005): 235-258.
According to the abstract accompanying this article, the author seems to believe that the books written by Communist propagandist Julius Mader "represent a valuable resource for the historians of today" because much of his information came from East Germany's Ministry of State Security (MfS/Stasi).
Müller-Enbergs, Helmut. Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit, Teil 2: Anleittungen für die Aebeit mit Argenten, Kundschaftern und Spion in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Berlin: Ch. Links Verlag, 1998.
According to Childs, I&NS 16.3, this work "deals with the work of the HV A, the GDR's external intelligence service, for most of its existence under the leadership of General Markus Wolf." It is "[b]ased on the Stasi archives as well as mass of published materials."
Müller-Enbergs, Helmut. "The Place of Unofficial Employees (IMs) in the GDR's System of Governance." Journal of Intelligence History 8, no. 1 (Summer 2008). [http://www.intelligence-history.org/jih/journal.html]
Naimark,
Norman M. "To Know Everything and to Report Everything Worth Knowing": Building the East German Police State, 1945-1949. Working Paper No. 10. Washington, DC: Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1992.
Peterson, Edward N. The Secret Police and the Revolution: The Fall of the German Democratic Republic. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.
Peake, Studies 47.4 (2003), notes that the author "focuses on the domestic role" of the Ministry of State Security (MfS, or Stasi), "though he briefly mentions its foreign espionage element, the Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (HVA)." Much of the book "addresses the Stasi's role in monitoring East German citizens from 1980 until reunification. The emphasis is on the big picture as opposed to case studies of particular operations." Peterson's is a "thoroughly documented account."
Pickard, Ralph. Stasi Decorations and Memorabilia: A Collector's Guide. Lorton, VA: Frontline Historical Publishing, 2007.
Peake, Studies 52.3 (Sep. 2008) and Intelligencer 16.2 (Fall 2008), says this "impressive reference work" provides "a short historical overview of the Stasi organization" and "contains high quality color photographs of most of the medals, awards, and commemorative coins ... issued by the Stasi."
Pincus,
Walter. "Cold War Footnote: CIA Obtained East Germany's Foreign Spy
Files." Washington Post, 22 Nov. 1998, A2. "CIA to Germany:
What Spy Files?" Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 30
Nov. 1998, 17.
"[T]he complete original files from East Germany's foreign spy operations, including the true identities of its thousands of agents,... are in the possession" of the CIA "and are stored at the agency's Langley headquarters.... Sources, requesting anonymity, said the files were obtained after the fall of East Germany's communist government. They had been removed from Stasi offices in Berlin well before the Berlin Wall fell by members of the East German clandestine service....
"[R]ecords from the files were used in the espionage trial in Virginia of Theresa Marie Squillacote and Kurt Alan Stand.... In an affidavit, FBI special agent Katharine G. Alleman said she had 'inspected copies of certain HVA file records and I have been provided information concerning other HVA file records,' without noting where or from whom she obtained the records....
"As one former intelligence official aware of the operation ['Operation Rosewood'] said recently, 'When the complete history of the closing days of the Cold War is written, this will be one of CIA's greatest triumphs.'"
Click for other materials concerning the Stasi files.
Popplewell, Richard
J. "The KGB and the Control of the Soviet Bloc: The Case of East Germany."
Intelligence and National Security 13, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 254-285.
Abstract: "The Soviet Union's spying on its 'friends' took various forms. First, the ordinary population was watched by its own security services. Second, the security services spied on the rank and file of the local communist parties.... Third, at times the leadership of the satellite communist parties also came under the close scrutiny both of the KGB and its local auxilieries."
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