The Kießling Affair
Book presentation
The Kiessling-Wörner Affair in 1984 was far more than just the tale of suffering of a NATO general unjustly suspected of homosexuality. With previously unknown sources and unheard eyewitnesses, for the first time the background of what was happening at the time is now comprehensively reconstructed.
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Nothing is what it seems!
Book presentation
What makes an explanation for a conspiracy theory? Why are they so attractive to many? And what can you do about it? Researcher Michael Butter explains how such narratives work, where they come from and what effects they can have.
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BND vs. GDR
Panel discussion
In public, the reconnaissance work of the BND against the GDR does not have a good reputation. How good was the work of the BND in reality? This topic will be discussed by Experts from the BND Historical Commission, Stasi historians and a former V-man of the Gehlen organization.
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The discovered CIA espionage technology
Presentation
In 2017, the Crypto Museum in Eindhoven gained access to a number of interesting CIA bugs and was able to reconstruct the story behind them. For the first time, the Crypto Museum is presenting to the public a total of five generations of listening devices used by the CIA.
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The inconspicuous
Book launch
The spy novel by Dirk Brauns fictionally tells the story of his family in East Berlin. In 1965, eighteen-year-old Martin Schmidt witnessed the Stasi arresting his parents as spies. When his mother is released, he follows her to the west. Decades later, the traumatic events catch up with him.
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The Code of Evil
Presentation
Three specialists have declared war on crime. At the end of 2018, they founded the Institute for Forensic Text Analysis. The profilers deal with cases of slander, extortion and abduction, political affairs and murders.
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