East German Foreign Intelligence. Myth, Reality and Controversy

Summary:

This book examines the East German foreign intelligence service (Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung, or HVA) as a historical problem, covering politics, scientific-technical and military. The contributors broaden the conventional view of East German foreign intelligence as driven by the inter-German conflict to include its targeting of the United States, northern European and Scandinavian countries, highlighting areas like scientific-technical and military intelligence.

This book explores how though all of the CIA's East German sources were double agents controlled by the Ministry of State Security, the CIA was still able to declare victory in the Cold War.

Table of contents:

Part I: Intelligence and Counterintelligence

Ch 1: Counterintelligence in Postwar Europe, 1945-65
Nigel West

Ch 2: Western Espionage and Stasi Counterespionage, 1953-61
Paul Maddrell

Ch 3: The Rise and Fall of West German Intelligence Operations against East Germany
Erich Schmidt-Eenboom

Ch 4: Deaf, Dumb and Blind: the CIA and East Germany
Benjamin Fischer

Ch 5: Rosenholz: Mischa's Files, CIA's Booty
Robert Gerald Livingston

Part II: Political Intelligence

Ch 6: Political Espionage: Foci and Sources
Helmut Müller-Enbergs

Ch 7: Active Measures and Disinformation as Part of East Germany’s Propaganda War, 1953-1972
Michael Scholz

Ch 8: Foreign Intelligence under the Roof of a Ministry for State Security
Bernd Lippmann

Ch 9: East German Espionage in Denmark
Thomas W. Friis

Ch 10: How the MfS’s Worldview Affected the Intelligence Cycle: A Study Based on Operations against the Netherlands
Beatrice de Graaf

Part III: Scientific-Technical and Military Intelligence

Ch 11: The Crown Jewels and the Importance of Scientific-Technical Intelligence
Kristie Macrakis

Ch 12: The Professionalization of Soviet Military Espionage under Khruschev, 1953-64
Matthias Uhl

Ch 13: BND Military Espionage in East Germany
Armin Wagner