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God's Spies: The Stasi's Cold War Espionage Campaign inside the Church Author Wendy Speake The most exciting part ofThe real life cloak and dagger story of how East Germany? s notorious spy agency infiltrated churches here and abroadEast 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