Stasi Quotes

“Another source produced samples of secret U.S. documents that these renegades had sold to the East Germans and that were subsequently found in the Stasi archives.”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“Colonel Heinz Busch, who was Wolf’s chief analyst, supplied rich detail about spies in the U.S. military forces and defense industry as well as in NATO.”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“He told of numerous Americans who had betrayed highly sensitive U.S. military secrets to the Stasi.”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“He had helped General Markus Wolf in the early buildup of the foreign intelligence department.”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“Karl Grossmann, a former colonel who had retired in 1986.”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“former Lieutenant General Günther Kratsch, confirmed much of this information in a separate interview.”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“but he had officers stationed in each of the fifteen Stasi district offices in East Germany.”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“Wiegand’s headquarters was in Berlin,”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“a task force responsible for all matters involving foreigners.”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“In the MfS, Wiegand had been assigned to the counterespionage directorate and had reported directly to Mielke. His specific job was chief of Arbeitsgruppe Ausländer,”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“I was told that the CIA and the French and British intelligence services, which also had interrogated Wiegand, expressed a similarly high regard for his straightforwardness and frankness.3”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“Rainer Wiegand, a former MfS colonel who had defected to the West in 1990 after two years of advance planning.”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“Ambassador Georg Wieck, who until September 1990 had been president of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), the West German Federal Intelligence Agency—”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“After World War II, the western part of Germany had developed into a modern, economically powerful democracy governed strictly by the rule of law while the other Germany wallowed in a morass of government-sponsored crimes, its hapless citizens having passed from one dictatorship to another.”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“Twice in the previous half century, a cabal of ruthless ideologues had claimed for itself the sole right to rule in the name of “social justice.”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“As the Stasi’s secrets gradually were unveiled, German citizens became increasingly outraged.”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“Although Stasi officers tried at the last minute to destroy incriminating documents, most of the organization’s archives were saved.”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“The communist regime collapsed within weeks of that event, and the secret police organization quickly disintegrated.”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“Nonetheless, the true extent of the terror exercised by the Stasi over the German people, and the depth of its espionage apparatus, remained hidden until the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989.”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“In addition, an occasional defector from the Ministry for State Security (MfS) revealed operational secrets.”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“However, the facts of East Germany’s espionage operations began to surface more frequently in the West by the mid-1950s,”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“Because of the communists’ penchant for extreme secrecy, and people’s fear of the secret police, evidence of the extent of the oppression was as hard to come by”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“East Germany had become a police state; and when the Berlin Wall was built in 1961, the entire population became the state’s prisoners.”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“Mass arrests of the leaders’ political opponents, including many veteran communists who disagreed with current policies, had been reported.”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“The Stasi’s function in East Germany was identical to that performed by secret police organizations in other communist-controlled nations: It was the primary instrument by which the ruling party—in this case, the Sozialistische Einheitspartei (SED), or Socialist Unity Party—retained power.”
― John O. Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police

“egregious”
― John O Koehler, Stasi: The Untold Story Of The East German Secret Police