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The Grey Men

Pursuing the Stasi into the Present

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The Grey Men

By: Ralph Hope
Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
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By 1990, the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. During 40 years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Overnight, almost 100,000 Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers with access to highly personal information, found themselves unemployed. This is the story of what they did next.

Former FBI Agent Ralph Hope uses critical insider knowledge and access to Stasi records to track and expose ex-officers working everywhere from the Russian energy sector to the police and even the government department tasked with prosecuting Stasi crimes. He examines why the key players have never been called to account and, in doing so, asks whether we have really learned from the past at all. He highlights a man who continued to fight the Stasi for 30 years after the Wall fell, and reveals a truth that many don’t want spoken. The Grey Men comes as an urgent warning from the past at a time when governments the world over are building an unprecedented network of surveillance over their citizens.

©2021 Ralph Hope (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLC Espionage Europe Freedom & Security Germany Politics & Government True Crime Russia Soviet Union Surveillance
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No struggle to finish here - alarming truth, impressively detailed and couldn't put it down

alarming truth, impressively detailed

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Thanks Ralph!!! Great book. Well written. Entertaining and intelligent. Shreds the credibility of so called leftist politics.

Brilliant read.

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Very good. Well researched, & narration & accent were well suited to the narrative.
Scary as we can see it all playing out again here in 2021

History repeats and repeats

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