State Security and Mapping in the German Democratic Republic: Map Falsification as a Consequence of Excessive Secrecy? Lectures to the Conference of the Bstu from 8th - 9th March 2001 in Berlin Volume 7
State Security and Mapping in the German Democratic Republic: Map Falsification as a Consequence of Excessive Secrecy? Lectures to the Conference of the Bstu from 8th - 9th March 2001 in Berlin Volume 7
As of 1958, in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the Ministry for State Security was responsible for classified material, including topographic maps, which were produced and published by the Administration for Surveying and Mapping in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and by the Military Topographic Service in the Ministry of National Defence. In order to make sure that topographic documents were handled, stored, safeguarded, and administered according to the GDR's security doctrine, the Ministry for State Security ...
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As of 1958, in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the Ministry for State Security was responsible for classified material, including topographic maps, which were produced and published by the Administration for Surveying and Mapping in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and by the Military Topographic Service in the Ministry of National Defence. In order to make sure that topographic documents were handled, stored, safeguarded, and administered according to the GDR's security doctrine, the Ministry for State Security maintained its own 'Surveying' Line within Main Department VII (Counter-Intelligence in the Ministry of Internal Affairs / German People's Police). Following the Conference of the Geodetic Services of the Socialist States held in Moscow in 1965, the National Defence Council of the GDR adopted a resolution stating, among other things, that topographic maps in the uniform Co-ordinate System 42 were only allowed to be kept in the offices of the so-called 'armed organs' (the
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