The East German State Security as mentor of the Cuban political police
By Jorge L. García Vázquez
The MININT Archive (statistics 1980)
Jorge Luis Garcia Vázquez author of the blog STASI-MININT, is a Cuban exile living in Berlin. In his blog he provides lots of information about the relationship between the STASI & the MININT. In his paper “El Archivo del MININT y el asesoramiento de la STASI.” (The MININT Archive and the advice of the STASI), he provides the followings statistics :
Until 1980 the MININT had prepared a total of:
2,088,571 records or documents of the State Security6,056,847 records
pertaining to Internal Order
"This total quantity of documents: 8,145,418, was the main
problem of the MININT, their classification, organization and conservation,
especially of 160,000 pre-1959 records...
. The Stasi report describes the exact location of the Archive, the status
of the personal Card Index, which contains “all the Counterintelligence
materials, for example the data on informants, operations carried out or
documents of operational importance.”
In this card index alone were registered 4 million people with the following
personal data: surname, first name, date of birth, gender, skin color, codified
fingerprints and registration number....
Foto J.L.García Vazquez
"This total quantity of documents: 8,145,418, was the main problem of the MININT, their classification, organization and conservation, especially of 160,000 pre-1959 records...
The Stasi report describes the exact location of the Archive, the status of the personal Card Index, which contains “all the Counterintelligence materials, for example the data on informants, operations carried out or documents of operational importance.”
In this card index alone were registered 4 million people with the following personal data: surname, first name, date of birth, gender, skin color, codified fingerprints and registration number.
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