Subject: Re: [permaculture] Conservatism revisited, and another try
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:08:41 -0500
Dieter Brand wrote:
Those smoke filled rooms I talked about where in Frankfurt (West
Germany, any Maoists in East Germany would have been in prison)
Here you go, Dieter:
http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Stasi_still_in_charge_of_Stasi_files
Stasi still in charge of Stasi files From Wikileaks 2007-10-04
By: Julian Assange, Christopher Findlay & staff Leak: stasi-in-bstu.pdf
Approximately one in fifty East Germans collaborated with the Stasi, possibly the highest penetration of any society by
a security apparatus. As a result of this collaboration, the Stasi built up an enormous archive containing files on over
six million individuals. During the final days of the GDR regime, the Stasi desperately tried to destroy the archive
before it could be seized by opponents. Civil rights activists interrupted the destruction of the files — and a
subsequent looting by the CIA[1]. The newly unified German government formed the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Files
(BStU) to manage the files and respond to requests by German citizens and journalists for Stasi records.
In addition to intact files, a total of 16,250 sacks containing around 45 million shredded pages were rescued. However
it wasn't until May 2007 that a computerised reassembly method was developed capable of dealing such a volume of
material. The digital reassembly is predicted to take 4-5 years to complete. During the process many former East German
spies and informers are expected to be uncovered.[2] By the beginning of 2007 the BStU had responded to over six million
"Stasi file" record requests. [3] However from November 2006 allegations started to circulate, most notably in the
German news paper Die Welt that the BStU, tasked to guard the Stasi files, had been infiltrated by a number of former
Stasi officers and informers. In response the German government commissioned an investigation. By June 2007, the
investigative team, led by Prof. Hans Hugo Klien, a former judge of the German Federal Constitution Court and CDU
politician, had completed its confidential report into the infiltration. The report has been obtained by Wikileaks and
is the subject of this analysis.