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Stasi experts helped train the secret police organization of Mengistu Haile Mariam in Ethiopia. Fidel Castro’s regime in Cuba was particularly interested in receiving training from the Stasi. Stasi instructors worked in Cuba and Cuban communists received training in East Germany.[45] Stasi chief Markus Wolf described how he modelled the Cuban system based on the East German one. Stasi officers helped in initial training and indoctrination of Egyptian State Security organizations. The Stasi’s experts worked to help create secret police forces in the The Stasi organized and extensively trained Syrian intelligence services under the regime of Hafez al-Assad and Ba’ath Party from 1966 onwards and especially from 1973. Stasi experts helped to set up Idi Amin’s secret police. Stasi experts helped the President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, to set up his secret police. When Nkrumah was ousted by a military coup, Stasi Major Jürgen Rogalla was imprisoned. The Stasi sent agents to the West as sleeper agents. For instance, sleeper agent Günter Guillaume became a senior aide to social democratic chancellor Willy Brandt, and reported about his politics and private life. The Stasi operated at least one brothel. Agents were used against both men and women working in Western governments. “Entrapment“ was used against married men and homosexuals. Martin Schlaff – According to the German parliament’s investigations, the Austrian billionaire’s Stasi codename was “Landgraf“ and registration number “3886-86“. He made money by supplying embargoed goods to East Germany. Sokratis Kokkalis – Stasi documents suggest that the Greek businessman was a Stasi agent, whose operations included delivering Western technological secrets and bribing Greek officials to buy outdated East German telecom equipment. Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Group) – The terrorist organization which killed dozens of West Germans and others received financial and logistical support from the Stasi, as well as shelter and new identities. The Stasi ordered a campaign in which cemeteries and other Jewish sites in West Germany were smeared with swastikas and other Nazi symbols. Funds were channelled to a small West German group for it to defend Adolf Eichmann. The Stasi channelled large amounts of money to Neo-Nazi groups in West, with the purpose of discrediting the West.
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