How the Stasi spied on Thatcher during visit to Berlin wall
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It was an historic and sensitive trip, planned with precision -- and in secret -- at a time of high tension in the Cold War.
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As British premier, Margaret Thatcher may have forged a strong "special relationship" with the US, but an early visit did not always offer a warm introduction to the nation, documents released Friday show.
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The request is from Equatorial Africa over alleged ties to a plot to oust the president. CAPE TOWN -- South Africa is considering a request by Equatorial Guinea to question Mark Thatcher about his alleged
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa - South African police arrested Mark Thatcher, the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, early Wednesday on allegations he was involved in a plot to overthrow the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, police said.    Police spokesman Sipho Ngwema said Thatcher, 51, was arrested at a Cape Town home and is expected to be charged with violation of the Foreign Military Assistance Act...
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German police have found traces of radiation in two buildings linked to a Russian businessman who met the murdered ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko on the day he fell ill, a spokeswoman said on Saturday.
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Berliners watched in fascination and disbelief as the Berlin Wall reappeared before their eyes last week.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - George W. Bush has often expressed his admiration for the yearning for freedom in Communist East Germany that led to the collapse of the Berlin Wall on his father's watch 18 years ago.
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LONDON, Sept. 3 -- German spies hid messages in drawings of models wearing the latest fashions in an attempt to outwit Allied censors during World War II, according to British security service files.
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South Africa&#39;s Justice Ministry will on Monday begin studying a request from Equatorial Guinea to question Mark Thatcher, who has been charged in Cape Town with bankrolling an alleged coup plot to topple the government in Malabo.
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JOHANNESBURG, Aug 29  - The arrest of Mark Thatcher in South Africa over a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea is shining a spotlight on powerful members of the British elite who may have colluded to take over the oil-rich African country.
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Official lists of those who collaborated with the communist-era secret police are published.
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The probe into the death of Alexander Litvinenko spread to Germany with police there detecting radioactivity in two properties linked to a contact of the late Russian spy.
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German police have uncovered a radioactive trail linked to what prosecutors believe could be a possible suspect in the murder of a former Russian spy in London last month.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Wolfgang Heene, who helped communist East Germany build the Berlin Wall as a young soldier in 1961, has retired to a sleepy village on the Baltic shore -- which in turn is having a barrier built around it.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa - South African police arrested Mark Thatcher, the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, early Wednesday on allegations he was involved in a plot to overthrow the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, police said.    Thatcher, 51, was taken into custody during a raid on his home in the upscale Cape Town suburb of Constantia shortly after 7 a.m...
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A new documentary thick with tales of spies and secretive submarine landings traces how Nazis smuggled gold and cash from Europe to Argentina, a notorious safe haven for war criminals after World War II.
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The chief suspect in the murder of Russian exile Alexander Litvinenko paid a previously unreported visit to London in the weeks before his poisoning with radioactive polonium, a witness in the case told Reuters.