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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsCONTENTS
Preface 7
Introduction 12
Prologue 20
Dramatis personae 22
1 Establishing the Stasi 28
2 Pastor agents 47
3 A growing threat: seminaries 66
4 The fine art of recruiting 71
5 East Germans, escaping 92
6 Agents’ vanities 114
7 Cunning infiltration 128
8 An exotic foreign assignment 141
9 Target: international organizations 152
10 Intercepting Bible smugglers 156
11 A literary underground railroad 177
12 Agents and their rewards 187
13 Spying and doing one’s part for East Germany 196
14 An indispensable Bible smuggler (and Stasi spy) 213
15 Losing motivation 239
16 A crucial foreign mission 250
17 Churches spreading opposition 266
18 East Germany on its knees 278
19 The Berlin Wall collapses 285
20 Destroying the evidence 290
21 Anxiously waiting pastor spies 296
22 God’s spies: what was the point? 310
Index 321
