‘Spying in Cold War East Germany’

This year, for the seventh year running, I shall be giving a course of 10 talks in which I examine the end of the Second World War in North-West Europe, the occupation and division of Germany, the strange life and death of Rudolf Hess, and the traditional spying activities of the Great Powers and I then move on to focus on the intelligence collection operations of the Allied Military Liaison Missions in East Germany throughout the Cold War.  Much that was secret at the time can now be revealed and these lavishly illustrated talks reveal just how risky the job was that these non-traditional liaison missions struggled to undertake.  Extraordinary photographic and other evidence from the Stasi archives allows me to demonstrate what the ‘probable enemy’ knew and recorded about our attempts to make off with its military secrets.

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