Inside the Stasi spy school
The Story15 Juli 2020

Inside the Stasi spy school

At the height of the Cold War, East Germany operated an elite secret academy designed to train secret police agents in tradecraft and tactics for psychological manipulation. Now, a trove of previously classified recordings that reveal the inner workings of that Stasi training school have been published.


Guests:

Oliver Moody, Berlin Correspondent for the Times.

Roger Boyes, Diplomatic Editor and columnist at The Times.


Host: Manveen Rana.


With thanks to Südwest Rundfunk (SWR), the German public broadcaster that released the recordings, and the Bundesbeauftragte für die Stasi-Unterlagen (BStU) – Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Files, in English - for the audio.

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