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![]() The second part provides detailed descriptions of the Stasi's spy technologies, their development and specifications, and their various uses. The book's two parts differ quite substantially in flavor: the first part is biographically driven strange, fascinating, sometimes repugnant characters populate the pages and make for a rather wild ride. ![]() The book's second part focuses on spy gadgets that is, the development and deployment of intelligence technologies in their broadest sense and their many-external as well as internal-uses. ![]() Here Macrakis is mainly interested in the clandestine-and sometimes not so-acquisition of technology by the MfS's Sector of Science and Technology (SWT) and its main agents. The book is divided into two parts, roughly equal in length, with the first focusing on foreign operations. Seduced by Secrets provides fascinating insights into the role of technology at the East German Ministry of State Security (MfS). Twenty years after the Berlin Wall came tumbling down and Berlin's reputation as the world's spy capital began to fade, two realizations dawn: reverberations of Berlin's former role are still being felt, and Kristie Macrakis has written a timely book. While the yellow-press outlet Bild accuses Kurras of betraying Americans to East Germany, the liberal Tagesspiegel provides details on Kurras's reams of reports to East Berlin and their modes of reproduction and transmission-wireless, dead-drops, and Minox cameras. No Cloaks, No Daggers: The Stasi and Its Technological ObsessionsĪs I write this review, Berlin newspapers are providing their readers with a steady stream of news on Klaus Kurras-the West Berlin policeman who, during a demonstration on June 2, 1967, shot the student Benno Ohnesorg and was unmasked a Stasi informant forty-two years later in late May 2009. ![]() Reviewed by Katrin Paehler (Department of History, Illinois State University) Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World.Ĭambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. ![]()
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