'Spying in Cold War East Germany'

For the fourth year running this popular course returned and ran over the course of five afternoons during which I gave a series of 10 talks on the theme of 'Spying on Cold War East Germany', based on my six years' service in Berlin and the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

Despite most of this material having been classified as Confidential or Secret during the Cold War, it is now possible to expose it to the light of day, revealing an extraordinary era when small Allied Military Liaison Missions patrolled the territory of the GDR collecting information on the capabilities and, where possible, intentions of our Soviet and other Warsaw Pact adversaries.

This course of talks focueds primarily on military intelligence operations, but it also looked at the strange saga of Rudolf Hess, the East German regime and its 'Stasi' secret police and the lives of Berliners and of the Allied garrisons in West Berlin.