![]() ![]() xiv) and, as importantly, to repair a major deficiency of spy novels and the literature on intelligence agencies that downplay (by focusing on often-colorful characters) the importance of technology to intelligence operations. Her purpose in this tightly formulated study is to “reveal the secret methods and sources of a spy and security agency as they related to technology” (p. She has supplemented her research on the Stasi records by successfully reconstructing the East German agency's development and extensive use of spy technology (hidden cameras, containers, listening devices, invisible inks, and special paper), which she acquired through painstaking searches of private collections, museums, court exhibits, and the Western Federal Criminal Office. This detailed monograph is based on interviews with former Stasi, KGB, West German, and CIA officers court records and accessible Stasi files (including those obtained through the so-called Rosenholz operation whereby CIA officers successfully obtained a microfilm copy listing the names of Stasi agents). ![]() Kristie Macrakis has shifted her research interest from East German science to the East German Ministry for State Security, the so-called Stasi. ![]()
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