At the height of the Cold War, East Germany operated an elite secret academy designed to train secret police agents in tradecraft and tactics for psychological manipulation. Now, a trove of previously classified recordings that reveal the inner workings of that Stasi training school have been published.

Guests:

Oliver Moody, Berlin Correspondent for the Times.

Roger Boyes, Diplomatic Editor and columnist at The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

With thanks to Südwest Rundfunk (SWR), the German public broadcaster that released the recordings, and the Bundesbeauftragte für die Stasi-Unterlagen (BStU) – Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Files, in English - for the audio.

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Inside the Stasi spy school