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Summer 2003 Counter-Intelligence Soviet Style:
Abstract With the end of World War II, Soviet security forces expanded their activities into East Germany. Their efforts to protect Soviet occupation forces as well as Soviet state interests abroad show the deep impact of highly ideologized images of the enemy which were nurtured in Soviet Russia since the pre-war period. At the same time, the Stalinist counter-intelligence met a collapsed, but hostile society and early Western attempts to gather information and intelligence about the unknown USSR. The article outlines underlying ideological traditions and conceptions of the services‘ activities and describes the complex "intelligence-reality" in the Soviet zone of occupation with its specific tensions between security interests, Soviet arbitrary, life in the post-war society, and possible resistance. |
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