One of the Stasi’s main tasks was spying on the population, primarily through a vast network of citizens-turned-informants, and fighting any opposition by overt and covert measures, including hidden psychological destruction of dissidents (Zersetzung, literally meaning “decomposition“).(Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung) was responsible both for espionage and for conducting covert operations in foreign countries. CANADA AND UK. Stasi employed 5 MILLION people full-time, including 1 MILLION fully employed unofficial collaborators, soldiers. Stasi have formal categorizations of each type of informant, and had official guidelines on how to extract information from, and control, those with whom they came into contact. Informants are made to feel important, given material or social incentives. “human and basic rights, including freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and conviction“. ARE NOT ALLOWED. Zersetzung was designed to side-track and “switch off“ perceived enemies.
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