DDR Type 2 Short-wave spy transmitter
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DDR Type 2 Short-wave spy transmitter
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Re: DDR Type 2 Short-wave spy transmitter
#2Nice work and superbly chronicled. I hope in 60 years someone will find my work and similarly finish all the documentation I never got around to writing today.
Re: DDR Type 2 Short-wave spy transmitter
#3Interesting that the Stasi chose to hide it in a car battery shell and bury it, ensuring that anyone who stumbled across it would be suspicious.
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#4Interesting that the Stasi chose to hide it in a car battery shell and bury it, ensuring that anyone who stumbled across it would be suspicious.
Are we sure it was buried intentionally, and not moved from its original place and eventually thrown away (presumably because the concealment worked as intended and it looked like a junk old battery) to where it ended up now?
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#5"The one shown here, was found in 2018 in a forgotten cache in a West European country. Based on the manufacturing codes on some of the components, it was probably manufactured in 1962. "
"forgotten" it was not - KGB does not forget! just deemed useless to both sides and not worth the extraction risk later on.
also, i wonder if one of Putin's buddies used these back in the days when he was stationed in East Germany in the 80's.
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#6"The one shown here, was found in 2018 in a forgotten cache in a West European country. Based on the manufacturing codes on some of the components, it was probably manufactured in 1962. " "forgotten" it was not - KGB does not forget! just deemed useless to both sides and not worth the extraction risk later on. also, i wonder if one of Putin's buddies used these back in the days when he was stationed in East Germany i…
But Stasi ceased to exist in an orgy of shredding, so it might very well have been forgotten.
Re: DDR Type 2 Short-wave spy transmitter
#7Interesting that the Stasi chose to hide it in a car battery shell and bury it, ensuring that anyone who stumbled across it would be suspicious.
The disguise was for transport. There was very little chance that it would be discovered once underground and even if it were, it would not compromise the owner as it would be located far away in a place like a wood or a public park.
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#8"The one shown here, was found in 2018 in a forgotten cache in a West European country. Based on the manufacturing codes on some of the components, it was probably manufactured in 1962. " "forgotten" it was not - KGB does not forget! just deemed useless to both sides and not worth the extraction risk later on. also, i wonder if one of Putin's buddies used these back in the days when he was stationed in East Germany i…
I wonder if there are any news articles about what else might have been found in the cache, and where it was found?
Edit: Just hadn't read far enough...
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#9Did they try sending? Maybe the Lincolnshire poacher would reply?
Re: DDR Type 2 Short-wave spy transmitter
#10"The one shown here, was found in 2018 in a forgotten cache in a West European country. Based on the manufacturing codes on some of the components, it was probably manufactured in 1962. " "forgotten" it was not - KGB does not forget! just deemed useless to both sides and not worth the extraction risk later on. also, i wonder if one of Putin's buddies used these back in the days when he was stationed in East Germany i…
But Stasi ceased to exist in an orgy of shredding, so it might very well have been forgotten.
Perhaps, but we were reminded just this week that some Stasi memories are well preserved. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/11/valdimir-putin...