Many Stasi agents were "Romeo spies," Kühne wrote ... Records show that he told the FBI he has no memories of the victim or ...

That September, the curtain would close on the Stasi's final act. The Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), founded in 1950, saw itself as the "shield and ...

Germany's parliament has voted to transfer the secret files of the Stasi, the intelligence service in communist East Germany, to the national archives despite concerns from researchers.

The release of a series of top-secret Stasi tapes is shedding light on the inner workings of the once-feared German police agency. The 14 highly classified recordings were once held by the agency ...

01/15/2025 January 15, 2025 The Ministry for State Security, or Stasi for short, was the GDR's secret police. It spied on and monitored citizens, imprisoned opposition members, and carried out ...

Vladimir Putin was 33 when he received this Stasi ID card A Stasi ID pass used by Vladimir Putin when he was a Soviet spy in former East Germany has been found in the Stasi secret police archive ...