God's spies: the Stasi's Cold War espionage campaign inside the church
This book tells the real-life cloak-and-dagger story of how East Germany's notorious spy agency infiltrated churches here and abroad. East Germany only existed for a short forty years, but in that time, the country's secret police, the Stasi, developed a highly successful "church depa...
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| Summary: | This book tells the real-life cloak-and-dagger story of how East Germany's notorious spy agency infiltrated churches here and abroad. East Germany only existed for a short forty years, but in that time, the country's secret police, the Stasi, developed a highly successful "church department" that -- using persuasion rather than threats -- managed to recruit an extraordinary stable of clergy spies. Pastors, professors, seminary students, and even bishops spied on colleagues, other Christians, and anyone else they could report about to their handlers in the Stasi. Thanks to its pastor spies, the Church Department (official name: Department XX/4) knew exactly what was happening and being planned in the country's predominantly Lutheran churches. Yet ultimately it failed in its mission. Despite knowing virtually everything about East German Christians, the Stasi couldn't prevent the church-led protests that erupted in 1989 and brought down the Berlin Wall. - Publisher |
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| adam_text | Contents Preface ix Abbreviations xv Introduction xvii Prologue і 1. Establishing a Secret Police Force 3 2. Agents and Handlers 20 3. Reining In the Seminaries 38 4. Recruitment 42 5. Preventing Escape 61 6. High-Maintenance Spy 80 7. Infiltration 93 8. Student Spy 105 9. Tapping Ecumenical Bodies 116 10. Stopping the Bible Mules 119 11. Further Adventures in Bible Smuggling 136 12. Perks 146 13. Seminary Spy 154 14. Expanding Connections 168 15. A Frustrated Spy 192 vii
CONTENTS 16. Pastor Spies Abroad 202 17. Opposition Rises 217 18. Game Over 228 19. The Wall Falls 234 20. Shredding and Pulping and Shuttering the Stasi 238 21. Gods Spies ... after the Fall 243 22. Final Reflections 256 Notes 267 viii
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