New
York Times. "U.S. Gives Cold-War Spy
Files to Germany." 6 Apr. 2000. [http://www. nytimes.com]Materials presented chronologically.
New
York Times. "U.S. Gives Cold-War Spy
Files to Germany." 6 Apr. 2000. [http://www. nytimes.com]
According to a German government spokesman on 5 April 2000, the CIA "has handed over the first of a large cache of East German files listing intelligence agents and their code names."
Tony Czuczka, "Former Spy Files Returned to Germany," Associated Press, 5 Apr. 2000, reports that German government spokesman Uwe-Karsten Heye said that "the first CD-ROM arrived at Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's office [on 31 March 2000]. It was still sealed and had not yet been analyzed, he said. Some 1,000 further discs are to follow over the next 1 1/2 years."
Aris, Ben. "Fresh Stasi Files Could Name German MPs." The Guardian, 8 Jul. 2003. [http://www.guardian.co.uk]
"The CIA has handed over to the German authorities highly sensitive files that name tens of thousands of former East German secret service agents.... The so-called Rosenwood files contain more than 200,000 names, including up to 50,000 active Stasi agents who have so far escaped detection."
Glees, Anthony. The Stasi Files: East Germany's Secret Operations against Britain. London: Free Press, 2003.
Maddrell, I&NS 19.3 (Autumn 2004), comments that "[p]oor judgement and relatively weak material make this an unsatisfactory book." The author "makes excessive use of speculation, presumption and unconvincing reasoning.... [H]e does not identify a single British informant with access" to classified information. In addition, "Glees' willingness to make claims about the [British] Security Service's operations, even though he had no access to its records, goes much too far."
In a response, Glees, I&NS 19.3 (Autumn 2004), argues that the reviewer "completely ignored the witness testimony" in the book. "The material ... may not be complete but that does not make it 'weak.' ... [By] ignoring the witness testimony, Meddrell fails to understand that in fact I rely as much on witness testimony as on the evidence in the files."
Peake, Studies 47.4 (2003), notes that the author "considers only HVA (East German foreign intelligence) operations involving British subjects.... This is not an easy book to read and understand. It is awkwardly organized and its analysis is steadfastly mediocre. There is doubt that the conclusions are supported by the evidence and [there is] no way to check" since Glees' "research is based on Stasi files that are no longer available to public examination."
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