The Stasi was part of a brutal regime that imprisoned its political opposition; many of whom were never to be heard from again. What I witnessed as a young 24-year-old Army officer was something I ...

‘The Spies Among Us’ Shows a Victim Talking to Ex-Stasi Officers, Taking You Inside a Surveillance State. Georg Szalai. Thu, March 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM UTC. 8 min read. Forget 1984!

A German artist has projected the message "United Stasi of America" onto the US embassy in Berlin, likening reported sweeping Internet surveillance by Washington to spying by the former East ...

A new test on a swab taken from the mouth and throat of Chiara Poggi, a 26-year-old economics graduate stabbed to death at ...

Dagmar Hovestaedt is the spokeswoman for the German Stasi Records Agency, which showed 88,000 people last year what the Stasi had gathered on them. She said the U.S. should consider doing the same.

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German artist who beamed the words "United Stasi of America" onto the wall of the U.S. embassy in Berlin says Washington's spy methods make the former East German secret ...

Hovestädt: Germans see surveillance differently than U.S. due to Stasi. Stasi were East Germany's secret police during Cold War era of Communist one party rule ...

The secret police, or Stasi, roped in an estimated 190,000 part-time secret informants and employed an additional 90,000 officers full time — in total, more than one in every 50 adult East ...

The Stasi had corrupted them slowly—a “classic” tactic of intelligence agencies across the world, according to Donald Gregg, who worked for the CIA between 1951 and 1982. “The goal at CIA was always ...

A German artist who beamed the words "United Stasi of America" onto the wall of the U.S. embassy in Berlin says Washington's spy methods make the former East German secret police look like boy scouts.