Till death do us part!
Book presentation
Inside views of agent couples and their legends: Beatrice and Jeffrey Schevitz spied for the Stasi in West Germany, the Thiel couple were top agents of the KGB in the USA. Never before have agent couples given evidence of their active time.
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Between the surveillance state and “going dark”
Series: The Future of Espionage
What solutions are there for the dilemma between secure, private communication and the security interests of states? In the context of increasing cyber attacks, not only data protection officers but also increasingly secret services argue against an intentional weakening of software and encryption.
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A plane crash with consequences
Panel discussion
On April 6, 1966, a Soviet fighter plane crashed into Stoessensee in West Berlin. The British discovered explosive military secrets in the wreck. Fifty years later, the historian Bernd von Kostka evaluated blocked British secret service files – and published the whole case in the book “Capital of Spies”.
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The secret workshops of the State Security
Panel discussion
The secret workshops of the Stasi – the “Operativ-Technische Sector (OTS)” – were responsible for the technical spy equipment. Special departments developed a gigantic bundle of equipment that also served to monitor their own people and often brought dissidents or critics of the regime to prison.
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The world of secret services
Series: The Future of Espionage
Secret services repeatedly carry out violent operations against dissidents, suspected terrorists or spies in other countries. Insights into an unknown dimension of secret services that are not among the big and well-known global players in this business.
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Poison Gas for Alaska
Panel discussion
Adolf-Henning Frucht was a top scientist in the GDR and triggered probably the most serious case of GDR espionage. The whole story of this explosive and international piece of contemporary history is told to us by a companion of Frucht, as well as his children Karin Frucht and Ulrich Frucht.
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