Stasi

The Ministry for State Security (, ; abbreviated MfS), commonly known as the '''''' (, an abbreviation of ), was the intelligence service and secret police of East Germany (the German Democratic Republic or GDR) from 1950 to 1990. It was one of the most repressive police organisations in the world, infiltrating almost every aspect of life in East Germany, using torture, intimidation, and a vast network of informants to crush dissent.

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Administration organisation in Germany

foreign intelligence service of the German Democratic Republic (1955–1990)

thumb|upright|The writer Jürgen Fuchs (writer)|Jürgen Fuchs was targeted with Zersetzung methods. He described them as an 'assault on the human soul'. He died of a rare form of leukemia which he believed was caused by the Stasi's use of weaponised X-ray devices on him. Zersetzung (, German for "decomposition" and "disruption") is a psychological warfare technique first used by the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) to repress political opponents in East Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. Zersetzung served to combat alleged and actual dissidents through covert means, using secret methods of a

The paramilitary force of the East German secret police.

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East German foreign intelligence files

Castle and former prison in Stollberg, Saxony.

informant in the German Democratic Republic who delivered private information to the Ministry for State Security

East German assault rifle

SOUD, standing for System of Joint Acquisition of Enemy Data was a computerized intelligence exchange system where information acquired by the intelligence and security agencies from participating Warsaw Pact countries was stored. thumb|The application form for the SOUD system The intelligence exchange organization was founded in 1977, and its initial goal was to safeguard the USSR from 'foreign threats' during the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. Stasi engineers conceived the system using stolen Western technology, and it was operational in 1979. Its main computer was based in Moscow, the input lang

Stasi Prison Museum