God's spies : the Stasi's Cold War espionage campaign inside the church

God's spies : the Stasi's Cold War espionage campaign inside the church / Elisabeth Braw.

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Main Author: Braw, Elisabeth, 1973- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019.
Subjects:
Germany (East). > Ministerium für Staatssicherheit. > Hauptabteilung XX/4 > History.
Intelligence service > Germany (East)
Clergy as spies > Germany (East)
Internal security > Germany (East)
Secret service > Germany (East)
Church and state > Germany (East) > History.
Informers > Germany (East)
Cold War.
Church and state
Clergy as spies
Informers
Intelligence service
Internal security
Secret service
Germany (East) > Church history.
Germany (East)
Church history
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Establishing a Secret Police Force
  • Agents and handlers
  • Reining In the seminaries
  • Recruitment
  • Preventing escape
  • High-maintenance spy
  • Infiltration
  • Student spy
  • Tapping ecumenical bodies
  • Stopping the Bible mules
  • Further adventures in Bible smuggling
  • Perks
  • Seminary spy
  • Expanding connections
  • A frustrated spy
  • Pastor spies abroad
  • Opposition rises
  • Game over
  • The wall falls
  • Shredding and pulping and shuttering the Stasi
  • God's spies ... after the fall
  • Final reflections.

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