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03646aam a2200553 i 4500 001 13B26F6E2DF711EAB868BF0597128E48 003 SILO 005 20200103010057 008 190415s2019 miu b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2019017683 020 $a 0802875254 020 $a 9780802875259 035 $a (OCoLC)1078890614 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d SGB $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ge--- 050 00 $a JN3971.5.A56 $b I613 2019 082 00 $a 284.1/43109045 $2 23 100 1 $a Braw, Elisabeth, $d 1973- $e author. 245 10 $a God's spies : $b the Stasi's Cold War espionage campaign inside the church / $c Elisabeth Braw. 246 30 $a Stasi's Cold War espionage campaign inside the church 264 1 $a Grand Rapids : $b William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, $c 2019. 300 $a xxiv, 277 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Establishing a Secret Police Force -- Agents and handlers -- Reining In the seminaries -- Recruitment -- Preventing escape -- High-maintenance spy -- Infiltration -- Student spy -- Tapping ecumenical bodies -- Stopping the Bible mules -- Further adventures in Bible smuggling -- Perks -- Seminary spy -- Expanding connections -- A frustrated spy -- Pastor spies abroad -- Opposition rises -- Game over -- The wall falls -- Shredding and pulping and shuttering the Stasi -- God's spies . . . after the fall -- Final reflections. 520 $a This book tells the real-life cloak-and-dagger story of how East Germany's notorious spy agency infiltrated churches here and abroad. East Germany only existed for a short forty years, but in that time, the country's secret police, the Stasi, developed a highly successful "church department" that -- using persuasion rather than threats -- managed to recruit an extraordinary stable of clergy spies. Pastors, professors, seminary students, and even bishops spied on colleagues, other Christians, and anyone else they could report about to their handlers in the Stasi. Thanks to its pastor spies, the Church Department (official name: Department XX/4) knew exactly what was happening and being planned in the country's predominantly Lutheran churches. Yet ultimately it failed in its mission. Despite knowing virtually everything about East German Christians, the Stasi couldn't prevent the church-led protests that erupted in 1989 and brought down the Berlin Wall. - Publisher. 610 10 $a Germany (East). $b Hauptabteilung XX/4 $b Hauptabteilung XX/4 $x History. 611 27 $a Cold War (1945-1989) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01754978 650 0 $a Intelligence service $z Germany (East) 650 0 $a Clergy as spies $z Germany (East). 650 0 $a Internal security $z Germany (East) 650 0 $a Secret service $z Germany (East) 650 0 $a Church and state $z Germany (East) $x History. 651 0 $a Germany (East) $x Church history. 650 0 $a Informers $z Germany (East). 650 0 $a Cold War. 650 7 $a Church and state. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00860509 650 7 $a Clergy as spies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01893271 650 7 $a Informers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00973196 650 7 $a Intelligence service. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00975848 650 7 $a Internal security. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00976624 650 7 $a Secret service. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01110661 651 7 $a Germany (East) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210274 655 7 $a Church history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411629 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20221103011931.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=13B26F6E2DF711EAB868BF0597128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search