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Word: staatssicherheitsdienst (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Usage:

Call him Dieter. Do not expect much in the way of personal data -- his exact age, his address, his last name. As far as Dieter is concerned, the only fact that has any meaning these days is that until a few months ago, he was a member of the Staatssicherheitsdienst, the now defunct secret-police force known and reviled by East Germans as the Stasi. Once employment by the elite Stasi was a way of life. Now it is the curse of Dieter's existence. "Everybody has forgotten that we worked to make this country safe," he says. "We were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dieter: A Former Spy's Story | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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