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Informationen zum Autor Kristie Macrakis is Professor of the History of Science at Georgia Tech. She spent 2007-8 at Harvard University (where she received her Ph.D.) as a Visiting Scholar. Her previous books include Surviving the Swastika (1993) and Science under Socialism (1999). Klappentext Seduced by Secrets reveals the secret technical sources and methods of the Stasi (East German Ministry for State Security). Based on prodigious research in the Stasi archives! Seduced by Secrets enters the StasiâEUR(TM)s secret world of technology through biographies of agents! defectors! and officers. Zusammenfassung Seduced by Secrets reveals the secret technical sources and methods of the Stasi (East German Ministry for State Security). Based on prodigious research in the Stasi archives! Seduced by Secrets enters the Stasi's secret world of technology through biographies of agents! defectors! and officers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. High-Tech: 1. Agent Gorbachev; 2. Stealing secrets; 3. Hero, traitor, playboy, spy; 4. The crown jewels; 5. Kid and Paul; 6. The computer fiasco; Part II. Spy-Tech: 7. James Bond, communist style; 8. Communicating secrets; 9. Secret writing revealed; 10. Eye spy; 11. Big ears; 12. Smell science; 13. Spy dust.
