CBSNews.com's Christine Lagorio is filing weekly dispatches from Berlin while writing for the Financial Times Deutschland as part of the Arthur F. Burns Fellowship Program. Throughout the 1980s, ...

UPDATED: Aug. 5, 2009, 12:45 P.M. Since this story was published, it has emerged that the photo in Michael Jackson’s Stasi file showing him at the Berlin Wall is actually a shot of a look-alike, hired ...

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BERLIN (Reuters) - As an East German dissident he was forced into exile by the Stasi. Now, almost 30 years later, Roland Jahn will become caretaker of the vast archives of the secret police force that ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An 80-year-old ex-Stasi officer was sentenced to 10 years for a Cold War-era murder on Monday. Martin Naumann shot ...

It was set up as a unique historical experiment: an agency that would open up the secret service's files to those it had spied upon. But now the commissioner in charge of the East Germany's secret ...

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The sometimes ludicrous disguises and complex surveillance techniques used by East Germany’s Stasi secret police to psychologically brutalize the population have been revealed, more than two decades ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: East Berlin border guards stand atop the Berlin Wall at the Brandeburg Gate faced by thousands of West Berliners on ...

Germany's parliament has voted to transfer the secret files of the Stasi, the intelligence service in communist East Germany, to the national archives despite concerns from researchers. Millions of ...