From 1950 onwards, the Stasi infiltrated almost every aspect of ... The ratio of 80,000 full-time agents to the 16 million people in the GDR was higher even than in Soviet Russia.

Another decade passed before Polish and German historians uncovered new evidence in Stasi archives, which had been left in tatters by agents who had attempted to destroy files in January 1990.

they snap. These are the words of double agent “M”, who operated for the Dutch security service and the CIA against the East German Stasi for 22 years. In early 1985, it appeared that the ...

An 80-year-old former officer of East Germany's secret police, Stasi, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of a Polish firefighter in Berlin 50 years ago. The court determined ...

It is February 1990 and the Cold War is thawing. The Wall has recently fallen, East Germany is coming undone, and Stasi agents are either lying low or selling state secrets to the highest bidder.

A 79-year-old former agent of East Germany's Stasi secret police has been charged with shooting dead a Polish man in 1974 as he tried to escape to the West, prosecutors said Thursday. The victim ...

Yet some of the files that the Stasi most wanted to hide were never released. In the weeks before the Wall fell, agents destroyed as many documents as they could. Many were pulped, shredded ...

"It is a very, very dirty story," Kim Philby told an audience of fellow spies in East Germany. "But after all, our work does imply getting dirty hands from time to time." Philby was talking about ...

Researchers have unearthed the surveillance records of Taiwan’s former dictatorship. But the revelations inside could tear ...

Though Braw brings the tone of an espionage thriller to her telling, the activities covered don’t come across as all that exciting; as Braw points out, many Stasi agents believed they “didn ...