{"id":1069,"date":"2018-10-02T11:41:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T11:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamvasintezet.hu\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2018-10-03T13:36:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T13:36:19","slug":"stasi-the-unexplored-history-of-the-east-german-secret-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/stasi-the-unexplored-history-of-the-east-german-secret-service\/","title":{"rendered":"STASI: The unexplored history of the East German secret service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intro\">John O. Koehler worked as Deputy of Communications under President Ronald Reagan. For twenty-eight years he was Berlin and Bonn correspondent for the Associated Press.<\/div>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<p>&#8220;When Oleg Panin noticed me, he waved me over. &#8216;I&#8217;d like you to meet a friend of mine&#8217;, he said as he was leading me towards a group of unpleasant people, one of whom I recognized from the photo. It was Erich Mielke, a three star general (he was awarded the fourth star in 1980), head of the Ministry of State Security, the secret service, better known as Stasi<\/p>\n<p>Mielke was the most feared man in East Germany. (&#8230;) &#8216;Herr Mielke&#8217;, Panin said, &#8216;this is my friend Mr. Koehler from the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Jack, this is Herr Mielke.&#8217; As we shook hands, I said, &#8216;I know you very well, Mr Mielke.&#8217; Mielke got embarrassed. &#8216;I do not think that we have met before&#8217;, he said. &#8216;How would you know me?&#8217; I smiled at him and said, &#8216;At Checkpoint Charlie, a wanted poster with your photo has been out for years.&#8217; &#8216;Please do not say this to our guest&#8217;, warned Pannin. But Mielke smiled and replied, &#8216;Ah, I &#8216;m just a journalist like you.&#8217; (&#8230;)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John O. Koehler worked as Deputy of Communications under President Ronald Reagan. For twenty-eight years he was Berlin and Bonn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamvasintezet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}