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Before the collapse of Communist East Germany the country ran one of the most extensive intelligence networks in the world. Its secret service, the Stasi, consisted of as many as 150,000 agents by the time of its demise in 1990. Much more than a junior partner to the Soviet Union's KGB, the Stasi was in fact a highly professional and ruthless organisation which was dedicated to principles of conspiratorial aggressiveness and the protection of the Communist cause. Anthony Glees is one of the last researchers to gain access to the Stasi Archive in Berlin before it was closed. Drawing on documentary evidence in the files he presents a fascinating portrait of the Stasi's interest in, among other topics, the burgeoning CND movement in Britain and the Labour Party's prospects of holding office. Along the way he explains the elaborate structure of intelligence officers, agents and sources who together constituted the troops on the ground for the Stasi's campaign against the UK. Revelatory and controversial, THE STASI FILES is the most important book on espionage to appear since THE MITROKHIN ARCHIVE.

'Anthony Glees was one of the few Westerners who took advantage of access to the Stasi files to write more than a self-centred account of what the Stasi knew about him or his own time in East Germany. In fact, early revelations in the press here of what Glees found out about the degree of its agents penetration not only of West Germany but also of Britain probably helped to change the law and bring in much more restricted access to the files.' MARK ALMOND, LITERARY REVIEW
'Deeply researched and scholarly...This story of East Germany's "chilling secret police" is not a comfortable read but it is an essential one for anyone wishing to understand what Communism really was in the twentieth century' CONTEMPORARY REVIEW
‘Drawing on previously unpublished archive material, Anthony Glees' volume gives a fascinating portrait of the Stasi’s interest in the burgeoning CND movement in the UK and the Labour Party’s prospects of holding office. This is the definitive account of East Germany’s spying in Britain.’
Sunday Telegraph 8/2
The most breathtaking fact about the communist East German secret police (the Stasi), as Glees makes clear in his excellent account, was the sheer size of its operation.’
SUNDAY TIMES 22/02