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joshzeiss2021 wrote: 13 Dec 2025 17:28 Haha probably. Yeah it has made me think, the biggest sex sound archive probably exists somewhere perhaps in Cuba? Since they bug everywhere overthere

AshenElm wrote: 30 Dec 2025 17:07 It's a funny thing to think about going through piles of government documents for entirely different reasons.

Yes, the East German Stasi was aware of West Germany's "stay-behind" network, which was part of the larger NATO Operation Gladio.

Stasi cryptologists in Department XI, the Central Cryptology Agency, were able to intercept and decode encrypted radio communications from West German intelligence agencies, including orders sent to members of the clandestine Gladio group.

After the fall of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), when the West German branch of Gladio was being dismantled, it was discovered from Stasi files that their entire network had been known to the East German secret police from an early stage. The West German government later recruited some of these highly trained Stasi cryptographers to prevent their skills and knowledge of Western encryption methods from falling into the hands of other potentially hostile nations.
Operation Gladio involved a network of secret, anti-communist, "stay-behind" armies established by the CIA and MI6 in various Western European countries to prepare for potential Soviet invasions. The existence of these networks was kept secret from the public, most government members, and even parliaments in the respective countries until the Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti confirmed the existence of the Italian branch ("Gladio") in 1990.

sndprv wrote: 31 Dec 2025 18:11

AshenElm wrote: 30 Dec 2025 17:07 It's a funny thing to think about going through piles of government documents for entirely different reasons.

The reason I would be sifting through those files would be to see what it was the CIA wanted kept hidden.
The CIA went through a LOT of trouble to steal those files; just think of all the bribe money that was paid.

I can, for example, think of one motive.

I asked Google AI the following question: Did the East German Stasi know about Operation Gladio?
(Operation Gladio is still officially classified by the CIA, even though some researchers have written
entire books about it.)

AshenElm wrote: 31 Dec 2025 21:03 Huh, this is a reverse of the frequent situation where I mean to set off on an intellectual pursuit on the Internet, and get distracted by erotic material on the way. Operation Gladio was not something that I came across before, and that lead to an interesting Wikipedia dive. Some of the things the U.S. did immediately following WWII were truly stomach turning. At least this want as bad as Operation Paperclip.

AshenElm wrote: 31 Dec 2025 21:03 Still, that thought of those tapes is very enticing. A bunch of warm analog recordings catching people's daily life in the background is like a voyeur's dream. Hell, I wonder if the sex sounds that would be on them would be materialy different than the things we pick up in hotels today. For instance, I wonder how different the average person's sex life in the 1950s would be. Having the Internet, and therefore an unlimited amount of pornography or sex education materials in our pockets has to change would the average person would think to get up to. And that's not even getting into the great changes in the balance of power between the sexes that has occurred since then, one would think that would show up in the bedroom to some extent as well.

sndprv wrote: 03 Jan 2026 20:24 Apparently, the Stasi had an archive of about 28,400 audio recordings! How many of those recordings
contained sex sounds, I wonder? And given that the Stasi had files on roughly one-third of the
population, and the fact they had tens of thousands of informants, you can imagine the paranoia
that prevailed in that society. Think of how that affected their sex lives, combined with the
possibility that a person's very own spouse (or girlfriend/boyfriend), was secretly working as an
informant against that very same person. Some East Germans were even forced to report
on the activities of their own sons and daughters to the authorities.

yeppie wrote: 03 Jan 2026 20:34 I have just read a very interesting novel on this subject, ‘Was Du kriegen kannst’ (What You Can Get) by Clemens Böckmann. It is about a woman who is assigned by the Stasi to work as a prostitute and informal agent, mainly targeting businessmen from the West.
The novel consists of Stasi reports, conversations with the author and the main character's memories, and is set in the period from the 1950s to around 2014.

yeppie wrote: 03 Jan 2026 20:34 A lot of listening devices were used back then, so there must also be a large number of sex tapes... all fictional, but based on true events.