Entries Tagged to 'Cold war'
Peter Williams, ex BRIXMIS (during the 1980s) talks about how after the Cold War ended he went to look at his file in the East German Secret Police (Stasi) archives: what the Secret Service and Police documents in the archive revealed; meeting the man who drive the truck at them; and what the truck driver who had crashed into them told him.
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September 7, 2013
Peter Williams, ex BRIXMIS (in the 1980s) talks about: the setting up of BRIXMIS as a British military liaison mission after the Second World War; its Allied equivalents including the Soviet mission SOCSMIS; the transition to spying; why this intelligence role was advantageous to both sides; targeting technical equipment improvements; being detained in East Germany; and how detention was handled.
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September 7, 2013
Peter Williams, ex BRIXMIS (in the 1980s) talks about the Athenstedt incident: taking his new Brigadier on a tour into East Germany; how they came to find themselves in Athenstedt near an East German radar station; being deliberately rammed by an East German Air Force truck; and the fall-out from what happened.
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September 7, 2013