Projektnummer

0060742

Zusammenfassung

The project investigates the long-standing relations between German and Arab secret services. Goal of the project is to understand whether these relations included an exchange of knowledge about how to set-up and develop secret services. Running for five years, the project will look at both East and West German services' relations with at least three different Arab countries. The public frequently considers secret services through an aura of mystery and adventure. In fact, secret services are a mainstream feature of modern states: nearly every state has one. But political scientists' k...