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East Germany. Ministry for State Security (MfS, "Stasi") (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit): State Security Service of the German Democratic Republic. Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (HVA) (German: Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung): Foreign Intelligence Service of the German Democratic Republic.
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.
The State Security Service or VDD (Latvian: Valsts drošības dienests) is one of three Latvian security and intelligence services.VDD is the civilian counterintelligence and internal security service, which gathers intelligence from a number of sources and conducts its analysis, informs senior state officials about the identified risks to national security as well as acting to neutralize ...
Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN); Federal Police Department (DPF) (counterintelligence agency); Gabinete de Segurança Institucional (Institutional Security Bureau) (GSI) Responds directly to the president's office and the armed forces.
The Main Directorate for Reconnaissance [2] (German: Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung; German: HVA, German pronunciation: [haːfaʊ̯ˈaː] ⓘ) was the foreign intelligence service of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi), the main security agency of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), from 1955 to 1990.
The Rosenholz files are a collection of 381 CD-ROMs containing 280,000 files with information on persons who were sources and targets or employees and helpers in the focus of the Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (HVA, “Main Directorate for Reconnaissance”), the primary foreign intelligence agency of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
The Stasi Records Agency (German: Stasi-Unterlagen-Behörde) was the organisation that administered the archives of Ministry of State Security (Stasi) of the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany). It was a government agency of the Federal Republic of Germany. It was established when the Stasi Records Act came into force on 29 ...
Markus Johannes Wolf (19 January 1923 – 9 November 2006), also known as Mischa, [1] was an East German spy who served as the head of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung), the foreign intelligence division of East Germany's Ministry for State Security (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, abbr. MfS, commonly known as the Stasi).