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Cold War espionage added $4.6 billion to East Germany's economy
Original: Cold War espionage added $4.6B to East Germany's economy
New reporting says Cold War spying brought roughly $4.6 billion into East Germany's economy, with stolen Western technology and intelligence quietly fuelling East German industry. The figure highlights how espionage functioned as an economic pillar of the German Democratic Republic, not just a security activity, and is drawing discussion about the scale of technology theft between the superpowers.
Why now: A newly surfaced estimate quantifies the direct economic payoff of Cold War spying, a rarely discussed angle.
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