Overview of the Kristie Macrakis papers, 1951-2006
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Overview of the Kristie Macrakis papers,
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Title: Kristie Macrakis papers,
Dates: 1951-2009
Collection Number: 2010C45
Creator: Macrakis, Kristie.
Collection Size:
Number of Containers: 103 manuscript boxes
(43 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Writings, notes, correspondence, photocopies of East German government documents, and printed matter, relating to the East
German
intelligence service, and especially to its use of technological applications
in espionage. Used as research material for the book by Kristie Macrakis,
Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World (Cambridge, 2008).
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
German and
English
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Kristie Macrakis papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2010.
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the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
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Scope and Content of Collection
Writings, notes, correspondence, photocopies of East German government documents, and printed matter, relating to the East
German intelligence service, and especially to its use of technological applications in espionage. Used as research material
for the book by Kristie Macrakis,
Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi's Spy-Tech World (Cambridge, 2008).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Espionage, German.
Secret service--Germany (East)
Technology--Germany (East)
Germany (East) Ministerium für Staatssicherheit.