Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World

摘要

Because technological innovation was a primary sphere of conflict between the superpowers during the cold war, the defense, consumer, and industrial technologies of the "other side" were highly prized commodities. Histories of cold war intelligence are uncommon due to their political sensitivity and the general shortage of information. Frequently, historians are compelled to approach their object of inquiry obliquely, as does James Bamford in his histories of the National Security Agency over the past quarter-century and William E. Burroughs in his 1988 history of U.S. photo reconnaissance satellites.