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The captured archives are starting to show that post-Soviet Russia hadn't stopped its old Soviet ways in Iraq. Among the initial revelations: Russia's SVR foreign-intelligence service recently spied on British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, eavesdropping on their conversations and passing the information to Saddam Hussein's regime. As recently as last fall, Russia was continuing to train the Iraqi secret police. Rooting through an office of the Mukhabarat secret police, Robert Collier of the San Francisco Chronicle discovered documents showing that the SVR trained five Iraqi officers in "phototechnical and optical means" and "acoustic-surveillance means"...

The East German Stasi used a technique known as "Zersetzung," which translated to "decomposition," referring to the effect it was supposed to have on the mind and spirit of a target.In Zersetzung operations, the Stasi mobilized all of its civilian informants to follow targets obviously, with the goal of harassing them and making them feel under siege all the time.We maintain that today, the elites of the West have recreated the East German Stasi in all Western nations, hidden from most of the public, and one indictor of this is the existence of "gang stalking," which is really just the...

Close window Published online: 10 May 2007; | doi:10.1038/news070508-9 Anti-shredder aims to stick spy files back togetherComputer program should re-assemble notes from the East German Stasi.Ned StaffordA research team in Germany has developed a computer-software system to piece together some 45 million pages of secret police files ripped into 600 million pieces. The files were torn up nearly 18 years ago by panicking agents of communist East Germany's dreaded State Security Service (Stasi). Bertram Nickolay, head of security technology at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (IPK) in Berlin, says that the heart of the reconstruction...