There Was a Second Cold War
Every world government accepts the
truth that the CIA decisively won the Cold War against the Soviet Union. Yet an
undiscovered dark secret known to only a few in the intelligence community was
the existence of a second Cold War led by the Stasi Secret Police against West
Germany. In this protracted but parallel covert war the CIA lost the upper hand
decades ago and was in danger of total defeat. The conflict was neither cold
nor casual but kinetic and often tinged with violence. Communist spies
penetrated all areas of government, industry and recently American military
bases. The prevailing wisdom suggested East Germany could invade West Germany
in two years or roughly around 1987. There were no designs in the short-term
for a Red take-over of Europe.
The German invasion would focus on
natural resources and national pride of reunification. They coveted factories,
industry and nuclear power plants. The likelihood of converting nuclear reactor
waste into atomic weapons was a priority on the enemy's agenda. And it meant
the surrounding NATO countries would have to attack and destroy every reactor
and risk releasing poisonous radiation into civilian populations. History
records Germany started the last two World Wars. World War III would not be any
different. Except the remaining scattered American military likely to lead a
ragtag rebel band of resistance into bombed-out countrysides.
America needed a new type of
fighting force to effectively navigate the Second Cold War. . One that blended
the skills of a spy with the strength of a soldier. Successful espionage
operations against the Russians held no clues to defeating the savage brilliance
of East Germany's Marcus Wolf. Wolf was a deviant master of sexual blackmail.
He was strategic in embedding his agents into Western criminal enterprises, And
he brazenly earned hard currency for his Communist handlers by selling weapons
and explosives to terror groups.
This bastard was not your typical
spymaster. He was the architect of the ghastly Berlin Wall. He was the
inspirational for sexual violence against women in East Germany. There were no
individuals in society only instruments to service the State. Churches were
outlawed. Reading the Bible was a death sentence. Wolf ran his security
services like an amoral mafia. Agents were beaten and gang-raped as part of a
grueling training indoctrination. The results were semi-hookers hiding in
hotels hoping to trade sex for secrets. Defiling their bodies not for truth or
treasure but for better housing and finer foods.
The key for U'SAF Intelligence was intensive training in all areas of psychological warfare. The perfect recruits needed to be stronger in impulse control than push- ups. They were building intelligence soldiers capable of detecting spy craft, interrogating enemies and tolerating high levels of violence There was two primary goals: spy identification and secret information. Unlike the CIA, the Air Force replied upon short term covert assignments where agents were placed next to criminals who worked with East German spies. In many instances the criminals did not know their new found allies were enemies of the West. Cold War Germany was riddled with layers of external infiltrators and home-grown terrorists. These evil entities usually set up shop in near -by towns close to American military bases. And these were the real-world threats of national security that only responded to the forward action intelligence officers created to stop them. I was sent to Germany to do just that. Little did I know catching spies would be easier than local police politics, Air Force ethics and the ultimate consequences of habitual violence.