Reading and Writing

What every regime, regardless of ideology, fears the most is the people. In this respect Uncle Sam is no different from North Korea or East ...

"This week, the commission for the Stasi files will publish a handbook on the HVA, the Stasi branch that handled foreign intelligence a...

On the occasion of last month's 50th anniversary of construction of the Berlin Wall the press published pieces on the omnipresence of sp...

"The first honeytrap in recorded history come in the Bible where the two honeypots in chief were Delilah and Judith. The latter seduced...

How Marja-Liisa Linkoaho, a Finnish consular employee, was recruitted by CIA to smuggle agents out of East Berlin: “When I was going to work...

"What did East German spies wear to work? Archival photographs uncovered by a Berlin-based artist reveal disguises that included fur ha...