10,000 Spies A'spying

Why don't we have spies like this today? A must-read article at Spiegel Online (Germany) 10,000 agents snooping tells us about new revelations about the way the West spied on the Communist East Germany. A new study shows that the West Germans had fully 10,000 agents snooping on their Communist neighbors. And they knew about the Berlin Wall before it went up.... Military espionage in East Germany was vital to the West at the height of the Cold War. According to Wagner, the 400,000 Soviet troops based in East Germany were the strongest Red Army divisions in the entire Eastern Bloc. The West feared an attack could be launched from the GDR on West Germany and NATO. "They needed reconnaissance," [German historians Armin Wagner] says. FULL ARTICLE...