ABSTRACT
The essential task of the Stasi’s army of informers was to deliver information which would allow plans to be constructed to destroy or neutralise the enemy. Such information was classified as being of operational significance and defined as follows:
Information about events, actions, people, establishments, objects and the relationships between them, which allows measures to be taken against existing or anticipated security threats, and which can therefore be used to help determine and realise concrete politically operative measures (F-3, p. 171).
