Libya, the country with the laziest flag, have always been seen, and rightly so, as a nation state sponsor of terrorism. This was especially true in the 1970 and 80s and the West never did more than lob a few missiles at Gaddafi, which missed, before they welcomed him back into the worlds community as he [...]

For being really light on posts recently, but it has taken a lot of time working on the new layout and the backend of the site: – some stuff still to do – a few css quirks still floating about – the background which is hacked. if the screen doesn’t go red press ctrl-f5 – [...]

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Yes, it’s sad if someone loses their life, but if it is proven that he was a terrorist so be it. What struck me of the story, wasn’t the fake passports, the massive killing team, but rather they nipped into toilets and came out with disguises such as false beards. It’s amazing how the spy [...]

Will be working on the theme on and off over this weekend. If you spot anything that looks funny please let me know. Coming soon: New home page Blog split up Links About Icons login-in (lightbox for buddypress for links?) contact 404 page (neeed to do some 301 redirects) Have a beer with David @ [...]

Markus Wolf wrote a new blog post: Terrorist Thursday – Music Review:First We Take Manhattan by Leonard Cohen

In our first post of the Terrorist Thursday series, The Stasi is kicking off with Leonard Cohens classic First We Take Manhattan which has been interpreted as referring to the Red Army Faction aka the Baader-Meinhof Group.
The song features in the movie The Watchmen (on some of the movie [...]

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Markus Wolf wrote a new blog post: Terrorist Thursday – a new every so often series

It’s a Terrorist Thursday (sung to the tune of Manic Monday) is a new once every so often a review of Cold War books/film or music where the opposition was state supported terrorists.
Terrorism, especially state sponsored terrorism was a huge factor during the Cold War as it wasn’t just spy v spy, or submarine v [...]

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Markus Wolf wrote a new blog post: Book Review: The Honourable SchoolBoy by John le Carré

In the past I’ve been critical of John le Carré and I have never really understood why he has been held in high esteem. I have questioned whether his popularity is due to his name as it’s easily remembered and so I must admit I approached one of his classics tomes with some trepidation. [...]

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Markus Wolf wrote a new blog post: Book Review: Storming Intrepid by Payne Harrison

Honestly, a lot of Bond movies are a bit rubbish, no matter how good their soundtracks are. Moonraker, the Bond movie where they go off to space to gas the whole world and Jaws meets the girl with the pigtails was rather dire, and it was just a camp-ish, badly acted unsophisticated parody of the [...]

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Markus Wolf wrote a new blog post: Book Review: Centrifuge by J.C. Pollock

Last week started off with a shocker as I swore in front of my two year old daughter and she spent the next hour saying “fawk…fawk…fawk..” and then our house sale fell through, I get criticised by a Quiller-snob in the Quiller yahoo group for not doing a complete listing of all the agents of [...]

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Markus Wolf wrote a new blog post: The Stasi (not so) childrens book – idea stage

Sometimes when I’m cutting grass, I turn my thoughts to this website and question how do I make it more popular? I’m not interested in SEO, rather maybe branding and sedition. I’m not wanting to be as large as google, but rather News International size. Then an idea struck me, what about a children’s book, [...]

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Markus Wolf wrote a new blog post: The worlds worst job? The Stasi Wiki facts on Quiller

Based on 3 Quiller books, and excluding Quiller, the The Bureau’s executives/agents has the following survival rates:
Alive: 27%
Permanently disabled: 9%
Killed: 59%
MIA: 5%

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Markus Wolf wrote a new blog post: Who was Ted Allbeury?

New year is always a time for resolutions and this year this site is aiming to find out who was Ted Allbeury and by the end of the year present a page full of information and a small celebration of his works. Ted led probably the most interesting yet secretive (his page was deleted on [...]

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Markus Wolf wrote a new blog post: In their own (code)words: Ion Mihai Pacepa #5

The holiday season has been and gone and we are back to the ritual of codewords with Mister 8 where he is taking readings from spy-master Allen Dulles’ The Craft of Intelligence. This week, we still on the subject of eavesdropping and Dulles is [...]

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The holiday season has been and gone and we are back to the ritual of codewords with Mister 8 where he is taking readings from spy-master Allen Dulles’ The Craft of Intelligence. This week, we still on the subject of eavesdropping and Dulles is catching illegal radio operators where Lieutenant General Ion Mihai Pacepa is listening to [...]