1893-1976
Eastern Europe
(372) documents
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North America
Middle East
1920- 2005
1984
The Stasi expects harsh sentences for People's Party of Iran (Tudeh) members being tried by the Iranian regime and suggests that the trials will lead to repression of other leftist groups.
1980
Stasi report outlines the history of Islam in Iran as well as Ayatollah Khomeini's personal history and foreign policy statements in an attempt to better understand the Iranian government and its likely foreign policy.
December 1988
Report on the execution of incarcerated Iranian People's Party (Tudeh) leaders and other political prisoners.
1981
Description of the work of an East German agent in Iran who worked with the Stasi (MfS).
June 6, 1988
Stasi report on the current state of Ethiopian-Eritrean conflict as of early June 1988. It concludes that in the event of Mengistu turning toward Moscow for additional arms supplies, the latter is likely to reject them in favor of a political solution to the conflict.
June 1988
Excerpt of a Stasi report on the Ethiopian army. This portion of the report deals with the Army’s dissatisfaction with the quality of the Soviet Union’s armaments; the East German material ponders how much of this is part of anti-Soviet sentiment, and how much is due to their professional incapacity.
April 30, 1987
Discusses the KGB’s opinion of Mengistu, the level of support for the Ethiopian intelligence services, and the difficulties the Soviets experienced in dealing with their Ethiopian counterparts within specific fields of state security.
October 16, 1981
Report from the KGB that Iraqi intelligence are using foreign embassies to "to register, monitor, and possibly neutralize" Iraqi communists and other oppositional groups abroad.
December 8, 1979
Report on violence between Baathist and Communist Iraqi students in Bulgaria.
July 31, 1979
Number of Iraqis living in the GDR and their location by district.
