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Not quite James Bond technology: The Stasi spied on millions of East German citizens, for example from mobile observation units like this oneBArch, MfS, HA II, Nr. 40000, S. 20, Bild 2 "Comrades, we ...

Reports that the German police have taken smell samples of suspected would-be G8 protestors on Wednesday saw politicians accuse the state of resorting to the dubious methods of the Stasi secret police ...

Germany has revived the scent-tracking methods of the former Stasi secret police to keep a check on protesters planning to demonstrate at the G8 summit next month. Scents collected directly from palm ...

BERLIN — At its height, the Staatssicherheit, or Stasi, employed one full-time agent for every 63 East German citizens. Taking into account unofficial informers, one out of every seven people in the ...

BERLIN, May 23 (UPI) -- Germany is coming under fire for introducing security measures used by the communist secret police ahead of the Group of Eight summit in Heiligendamm. Politicians of nearly all ...

Bellingcat researcher Timmi Allen zooms in on Google Earth to a Berlin police station where he once worked for East Germany's feared secret police -- the Stasi. "Under this [station] there is a deep ...

An outraged Germany plans to put pressure on President Obama to end America’s Internet surveillance program, calling such tactics akin to East German’s secret police security program. The U.S.