{"589834":{"#nid":"589834","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Werner Stiller, East German Spy and Defector, Dies at 69","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKristie Macrakis, professor in the Ivan Allen College School of History and Sociology, was quoted in\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Werner Stiller, East German Spy and Defector, Dies at 69\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Washington Post.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMr. Stiller was for many years a model citizen of communist East Germany, where he had been a member of the Free German Youth as a teenager and joined the state Communist Party by 21. His loyalties began to shift by the mid-1970s, according to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/kristiemacrakis.com\/\u0022 title=\u0022kristiemacrakis.com\u0022\u003EKristie Macrakis\u003C\/a\u003E, a Georgia Tech professor who studies espionage and chronicled Mr. Stiller\u0026rsquo;s story in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cdn.preterhuman.net\/texts\/government_information\/intelligence_and_espionage\/Seduced.by.Secrets.Inside.the.Stasis.Spy-Tech.World.pdf\u0022 title=\u0022cdn.preterhuman.net\u0022\u003E2008 book\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi\u0026rsquo;s Spy-Tech World.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe said that Mr. Stiller was disillusioned with the repressive politics of East Germany, but also frustrated with a career that had stagnated and with a strait-laced German society that abhorred his lavish, womanizing lifestyle.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/werner-stiller-east-german-spy-and-defector-dies-at-69\/2017\/04\/03\/07452874-1875-11e7-9887-1a5314b56a08_story.html?utm_term=.77937bd5c971\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2017-04-05 18:37:47","changed_gmt":"2017-04-05 18:37:47","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"graduation 2023","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/werner-stiller-east-german-spy-and-defector-dies-at-69\/2017\/04\/03\/07452874-1875-11e7-9887-1a5314b56a08_story.html?utm_term=.77937bd5c971","dateline":{"date":"2017-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-04-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"402281":{"id":"402281","type":"image","title":"Kristie Macrakis","body":null,"created":"1449252000","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:00:00","changed":"1475895122","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:02","alt":"Kristie Macrakis","file":{"fid":"75923","name":"kristiemacrakisweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/kristiemacrakisweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/kristiemacrakisweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":55636,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/kristiemacrakisweb.jpg?itok=KFF7vSc4"}}},"media_ids":["402281"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}