Stasi garbage can with hidden surveillance equipment
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stasi operations
Between 1950 and 1989, the Stasi employed a total of 274,000 persons in an effort to root out the ‘class enemy’[3][4]. In 1989, the Stasi employed 91,015 persons full time, including 2,000 fully employed unofficial collaborators, 13,073 soldiers and 2,232 officers of GDR army[5], along with 173,081 unofficial informants inside GDR[6] and 1,553 informants in West Germany.[7] In terms of the identity of inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (IMs) Stasi informants, by 1995, 174,000 had been identified, which approximated 2.5% of East Germany’s population between the ages of 18 and 60.[3] 10,000 IMs were under 18 years of age.[3]
In its forty years, ‘the Firm’ generated the equivelant of all records in German history since the middle ages. Laid out upright and end to end, the files the Stasi kept on their own countrymen and women would form a line 180 kilometres long.
[stasiland - anna funder]
November 26, 2009 at 10:23pm Comments
Signals for Observation
(document displayed in Stasi Museum, Germany)
1. Watch out! subject is coming - touch nose with hand or handkerchief
2. Subject is moving on, going further, or overtaking - stroke hair with hand, or raise hat briefly
3. Subject standing still - lay one hand against back, or on stomach.
4. Observing Agent wishes to be terminate observation because cover threatened - bend and retie shoelaces
5. Subject returning - both hands against back or stomach
6. Observing Agent wishes to speak with Team Leader or other Observing Agents - take out briefcase or equivelant and examine contents
from “Stasiland” by Anna Funder
November 25, 2009 at 10:51pm Comments
The picture shows a copy of a Stasi document of Michael Jackson’s visit in West-Berlin in 1988, photographed in Berlin, Thursday, July 30, 2009. A 1988 Michael Jackson concert in West Berlin prompted security concerns for East Germany’s Stasi secret police, according to historical files published Thursday. (AP Photo/Franka Bruns)
November 25, 2009 at 10:45pm Comments
A copy of the Stasi documents of Michael Jackson’s visit to West-Berlin in 1988, photographed in Berlin.
July 30, 2009 (AP Photo)
November 25, 2009 at 10:19pm Comments
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