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Other Stasi officers wore a similar uniform, but without the cuffband. The service or dress uniform of the regiment was an army uniform made of high quality (of officers) with claret fabric collar and brown (officer) leather belt. The left sleeve was fitted with a cuffband and the words "wachregiment F. Dzerzhinsky".
Axel Henschke (born 15 May 1952) is a former German Stasi officer, politician and party functionary of the Socialist Unity Party (SED) and its successors, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and The Left.
The Stasi identity card of Vladimir Putin, who worked in Dresden as a KGB liaison officer to the Stasi [14] Although Mielke's Stasi was superficially granted independence in 1957, the KGB continued to maintain liaison officers in all eight main Stasi directorates at the Stasi headquarters and in each of the fifteen district headquarters around ...
After Fink's Stasi connections came to light, he was summarily fired. Doctors, lawyers, journalists, writers, actors, and sports figures were co-opted by Stasi officers, as were waiters and hotel personnel. Tapping about 100,000 telephone lines in East Germany and West Berlin around the clock was the job of 2,000 officers...
BERLIN (Reuters) -A former officer for Communist East Germany's Stasi secret police was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday for the fatal shooting of a Polish firefighter at a border ...
Stasi FC is a 2023 Sky Documentary about Stasi control over association football in East Germany from the late 1970s, allegedly leading to their preferred team, football club Berliner FC Dynamo, winning ten consecutive league titles. It is directed by Daniel Gordon and Arne Birkenstock and produced by Erik Winker.
Karla - codename of a Soviet Intelligence officer, he is the head of the Thirteenth Directorate of Moscow Centre, le Carré's fictional version of the KGB, and the nemesis of Smiley. Karla is the central antagonist in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy , The Honourable Schoolboy , and Smiley's People .
A special Stasi unit worked covertly within the Grenztruppen, posing as regular border guards, between 1968 and 1985. [6] The Stasi also maintained a pervasive network of informers within the ranks of the Grenztruppen. One in ten officers and one in thirty enlisted men were said to have been "liaison agents", the euphemism for an informer.