The Cold War in Germany: Overview, Origins, and Intelligence Wars

Author Otis C. Mitchell, a former Army intelligence operative in North Germany, weaves his counterintelligence experiences with newly declassified C. I. A. evidence to paint a broad picture of West and East German intelligence and counterintelligence services. He shows that by the time construction of the Berlin Wall began the intelligence community already had established several fundamental, and long-lasting, systems. This work explores how these systems became anachronistic after the end of the Cold War and were not adequate to face the heightened challenge of Islamic fundamentalism that developed in the 1990s and the early 21st century.

Otis C. Mitchellis Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cincinnati. Professor Mitchell (Ph.D., History) has authored or co-authored some sixteen works, among them Germany's Iron Chancellor: Otto von Bismarck in His Era and Crisis in Europe: Thirty Years' War (1618-1648).