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The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, pronounced [minɪsˈteːʁiʊm fyːɐ̯ ˈʃtaːtsˌzɪçɐhaɪ̯t]; abbreviated MfS), commonly known as the Stasi (pronounced [ˈʃtaːziː] ⓘ, an abbreviation of Staatssicherheit), was the state security service and secret police of East Germany from 1950 to 1990.
Jeffrey Martin Carney is a former United States Air Force intelligence specialist convicted of spying for East German Ministry for State Security (MfS or Stasi). One of Stasi's most successful spies, code-named "Kid" or "Uwe", [1] Carney became alienated and angry at the U.S. Air Force and U.S. policies under President Ronald Reagan.
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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 ...
On April 22, 1991, Jeffrey Carney, a U.S. Air Force intelligence specialist was captured by agents of the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations after it had been revealed he had been working for the Stasi through declassified documents released after the fall of East Germany. [26]
The Stasi kept files on about 5.6 million people. [9] The Stasi had 90,000 full-time employees who were assisted by 170,000 full-time unofficial collaborators (Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter); together these made up 1 in 63 (nearly 2%) of the entire East German population. Together with these, a much larger number of occasional informers brought up ...
Luftstreitkräfte (Air Force) National People's Army; Stasi (Secret police) Volksmarine (Navy) Volkspolizei (Police) Media. Aktuelle Kamera, GDR's main TV news show; Der Tunnel, a film about a mass evacuation to West Berlin through a tunnel; Deutscher Fernsehfunk; East German Cold War Propaganda; Good Bye, Lenin!, a tragicomedy film about the ...
On 1 March 1956 the air force was officially established as part of the National People's Army, following the GDR's entry into the Warsaw Pact alliance. Initially the air force (LSK), with its headquarters at Cottbus, was separate from the Luftverteidigung (Air Defence, headquartered at Strausberg. It was intended to establish three fighter ...