The MININT Archive (statistics 1980)/Yoani Sánchez visited the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial

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 article “El Archivo del MININT y el asesoramiento de la STASI.” (The MININT Archive and the advise of the STASI), he provide the followings statistics (translation):

Until 1980 the MININT had prepared a total of:
2,088,571 records or documents of the State Security
6,056,847 records pertaining to Internal Order

 

                                                         Archivos de la Stasi/Berlin/BStU
                                                          Foto JLGVazquez

 

"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...

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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....

The officers of the Stasi, who have came to have 180 kilometers of records and documents on their citizens, delivered gladly to their allies and students in political repression their experiences and technical resources, to monitor and liquidate any opposition or dissent.
Here you can read the whole document in Spanish: Stasi-Minint Connection

 http://www.debatepolitics.com/latin-america/162002-cuba-s-bloggers-sharp-abroad-home-3.html

 

 

Yoani Sánchez y el autor del Blog/Investigación "Conexión Habana-Berlín durante su visita a la antigua prisión de la Stasi.

 

" And not very far from there, stands the Stasi Museum. I enter their cells, the interrogation rooms. I come from the perspective of a Cuban who was detained in the same place, where a window looking outward becomes an unattainable dream. One cell was lined with rubber, the scratch marks of the prisoners can still be seen on its walls. But more sinister seeming to me are the offices where they ripped -- or fabricated -- a confession from the detainees. I know them, I've seen them. They are a copy of their counterpart in Cuba, copied to a T by the diligent students from the Island's Ministry of the Interior who were taught by GDR State Security. Impersonal, with a chair the prisoner can't move because it is anchored to the floor and some supposed curtain behind which the microphone or video camera are hidden. And the constant metallic noises from the rattling of the locks and bars, to remind the prisoners where they are, how much they are at the mercy of their jailer..." Fuente Yoani Sánchez http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yoani-sanchez/from-the-jewish-museum-to_b_3255319.html