Interrogation Nation

Drawing on newly declassified espionage files, Keith R. Allen uncovers long-hidden interrogation systems that were set up by Germany's western occupiers to protect internal security and gather intelligence about the Soviet Union as the Cold War brought millions of refugees and tens of thousands of spies to Germany.

List of contents

Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Migrants, Spies, and Security in Cold War Germany
Part I: Places
1 The Allied Enclave of West Berlin
2 Debriefing in West Germany
Part II: Personalities
3 British Initiators: Scientific and Technical Intelligence Branch
(STIB)
4 American Liberators: The Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC)
5 West German Administrators: The Federal Intelligence Service
(BND)
Part III: Practices
6 Westward Migration and East Germany's Stasi
7 Shared Approaches to Security Questioning
8 Conclusion: Refugee Screening-the Past as Prologue
Appendix: The Changing State of Archival Access
References
Index

About the author

Keith R. Allen is a research scholar at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich-Berlin. Since receiving his PhD in history in 1997, he has worked for an international scholarly commission investigating Switzerland's wartime ties to Nazi Germany, directed web content development at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and curated the first pan-European exhibition on the legacies of World War II.

Summary

Drawing on newly declassified espionage files, Keith R. Allen uncovers long-hidden interrogation systems that were set up by Germany's western occupiers to protect internal security and gather intelligence about the Soviet Union as the Cold War brought millions of refugees and tens of thousands of spies to Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Keith R Allen, Keith R. Allen, Allen Keith R.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.2017
• EAN: 9781538101513
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0151-3
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Espionage & secret services, Espionage and secret services, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, The Cold War, East Germany, Ddr, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, Espionage;Russian spies;Soviet Union