Missed Espionage Story-Telling Opportunity

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1 See Saski Sassen, The Global City (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991); Saskia Sassen and Mary Kaldor (eds.), Cities at War: Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018); and Sohaela Amiri and Efe Sevin (eds.), City Diplomacy: Current Trends and Future Prospects (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

2 The Stasi archives make the direct ties between the organization and Carlos and other terrorists clear. This is not to say that Stasi ran Carlos as an asset. The East Germans found such temperamental personalities difficult to manage, a problem they shared with Czech intelligence. See Jason Burke, “How Cold War Spymasters Found Arrogance of Carlos the Jackal too Hot to Handle,” The Guardian, 6 September 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/06/how-cold-war-spymasters-found-arrogance-of-carlos-the-jackal-too-hot-to-handle and Daniela Richterova, “The Anxious Host: Czechoslovakia and Carlos the Jackal,” International History Review, Vol. 40, No. 1 (2018), pp. 108–132.

3 Jonathan R. Zatlin, “Out of Sight: Industrial Espionage, Ocular Authority, and East German Communism, 1965–89,” Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2008), pp. 45–71.

4 See Gerhard Weinberg, “Aspects of World War II German Intelligence,” Journal of Intelligence History, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2004), pp. 1–6.

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Jonathan M. Acuff

Jonathan M. Acuff is Associate Professor in the Department of Intelligence and Security Studies at Coastal Carolina University. A retired officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, he has worked as a military analyst for the National Bureau of Asian Research. He is the author of Intelligence Studies: Institutions, Operations, and Analysis (Washington, DC: SAGE/CQ, 2021). The author can be contacted at [email protected].