Kristie Macrakis

Seduced by Secrets

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Produktbeschreibung

Seduced by Secrets reveals the secret technical sources and methods of the Stasi (East German Ministry for State Security). Based on prodigious research in the Stasi archives, Seduced by Secrets enters the Stasiâ??s secret world of technology through biographies of agents, defectors, and officers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 787g
• ISBN-13: 9780521887472
• ISBN-10: 052188747X
• Artikelnr.: 23400098

Autorenporträt

Kristie Macrakis is Professor of the History of Science at Georgia Tech. She spent 2007-8 at Harvard University (where she received her Ph.D.) as a Visiting Scholar. Her previous books include Surviving the Swastika (1993) and Science under Socialism (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. High-Tech: 1. Agent Gorbachev
2. Stealing secrets
3. Hero, traitor, playboy, spy
4. The crown jewels
5. Kid and Paul
6. The computer fiasco
Part II. Spy-Tech: 7. James Bond, communist style
8. Communicating secrets
9. Secret writing revealed
10. Eye spy
11. Big ears
12. Smell science
13. Spy dust.