The Stasi went to extraordinary lengths to hide this surveillance, except for when its agents wanted suspects to know they were being watched. Exhibits here feature cameras hidden in such everyday ...

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Forget 1984! You don’t usually get a non-fiction look behind the curtain of the state security and secret police apparatus in a dictatorship. The Spies Among Us, a new documentary from Jamie Coughlin ...

East Germany's feared secret police had a bit of a sartorial flair. This photo was of a man wearing a fur hat, gold-rimmed sunglasses and a fake moustache was part of a seminar to teach incoming Stasi ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently told President Barack Obama that the United States’ vast surveillance operations resemble the practices of the reviled ...

Ralf Drescher recalls joining a demonstration and storming the headquarters of the East German secret police 35 years ago. Jörg Carstensen/dpa A hand-written flyer changed everything for photographer ...

(Reuters) - A German artist has turned a tiny surveillance booth used by the communist regime in the former East Germany to monitor citizens into an art exhibit and venue, which will be installed in a ...

The exhibits quickly bring home the vast scope of the Stasi's domestic spying. East Germany’s dictatorship would have loved how easily you can hide cameras and microphones now. Rob writes about ...