{"593861":{"#nid":"593861","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Cold War Espionage Paid Off\u2014Until it Backfired, East German Spy Records Reveal","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKristie Macrakis\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the Georgia Tech School of History and Sociology,\u0026nbsp;was quoted in an article in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EScience\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Cold War espionage paid off \u0026mdash; until it backfired, East German spy records reveal.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHistorian Kristie Macrakis of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, who has spent more than a decade studying Stasi databases \u0026mdash; including the one used in the current study \u0026mdash; agrees. \u0026ldquo;I was really excited that someone crunched these numbers,\u0026rdquo; she says. \u0026ldquo;They basically quantified what I did [already] in a qualitative way.\u0026rdquo; Macrakis, who has argued that\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/0268452042000222920?src=recsys\u0026amp;journalCode=fint20\u0026amp;\u0022\u003EEast German industrial espionage was ultimately a failure\u003C\/a\u003E, says the next step is to look at how the stolen technology was integrated into individual East German firms, who often requested \u0026mdash; and received \u0026mdash; the stolen information.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/07\/cold-war-espionage-paid-until-it-backfired-east-german-spy-records-reveal\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34508","created_gmt":"2017-08-01 13:38:15","changed_gmt":"2017-08-07 17:31:23","author":"oadebola3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"sustainability award","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/07\/cold-war-espionage-paid-until-it-backfired-east-german-spy-records-reveal","dateline":{"date":"2017-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","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:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/kristiemacrakisweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":55636,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/kristiemacrakisweb.jpg?itok=z8jzeTsv"}}},"media_ids":["402281"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"125691","name":"espionage"},{"id":"8836","name":"Cold War Science"},{"id":"175042","name":"Spying"},{"id":"8769","name":"cold war"},{"id":"175043","name":"Stasi"}],"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":""}}}