GDR records may expose spies

Berlin - Dozens of Westerners who spied for the former German Democratic Republic could face exposure following the success of…

Berlin - Dozens of Westerners who spied for the former German Democratic Republic could face exposure following the success of investigators in decoding computer records kept by the communist state's foreign intelligence service, Denis Staunton reports. The computer records, described by researchers as their most significant discovery to date, list agents by code-name and offer short summaries of the information they passed to East Berlin.

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