State Security Service

Short Info

Names:	Ministery for State Security
Founded:	1950
Released:	1990
Regions of activity:	German Democratic Republic, worldwide
Aims:	The protection of the socialist social order, the supervision of the people and the news procurement from foreign countries

History

The Ministry For State Security, also called State Security Service ("Stasi"), was the notorious intelligence agency of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Contrary to many assumptions, the State Security Service was not only directed against the GDR people. Also in the Western-European countries, especially in the Federal Republic of Germany, spies operated for the Ministry For State Security. Worthy of mentioning is, among various others, the case of Gabriele Gast who spied at the foreign intelligence agency of Western Germany, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, for the GDR. In opposition, the Bundesnachrichtendienst observed the transactions and the company netting of Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, the uppermost GDR exchange obtainer, in Liechtenstein and Switzerland. The case of soccer player Lutz Eigendorf should also be mentioned. His murdering should become a lesson for all to see, and a few Western-German spies played an important role. One of the best-known cases is this of Günter Guillaumes. Although he was uncovered as a GDR spy since May 1973 by the Western-German intelligence agency Verfassungsschutz, he remained almost another year as an advisor in the Federal Chancellor Authority ere he was arrested and German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigned. During the process of the German reunification in 1990, the US-American CIA enticed some top-spies of the State Security Service. The CIA also gathered large information about spies and their activities. Until the present time, the German government tries to receive the missing files.

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It’s Monday morning, you’re sitting at your desk without doing anything. You merely check the mail, concerning different inquiries to authorities. Since almost a year this spot is your place of work, and in a few weeks you’ll celebrate this jubilee with your colleagues. Shortly you remember how you did your final exams the year before. Originally, you didn’t want to become a lawyer, because the dry stuff made you weary. But just after you decided to subscribe for an economic course, there was that deciding scene in your life. During your studies and even in the recent period you neither had time nor leisure to re-concern with that event. However the years passed, and you had to solve the small problem until it developed to a huge scandal. Now, when you remembered the event itself, you could also memorize every very small detail. "Everything started with my grandfather’s death. He lived for quite a few years alone in his house in North Dakota, in a village near Bismarck. Bismarck, how this fits!", you think. Your grandfather has been at the army lifelong, during World War II he served in Germany. "Bismarck", you think again, and then you remember those strange documents you found after his death at him ...

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Why did your grandfather do it you think