Cover of Live and let spy

Book 2011

Live and let spy

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Publisher
The History Press
Language
English
Published
2011
  • Cold War
  • British Espionage
  • Government
  • General
  • Secret service
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE
  • International
  • International Relations

BRIXMIS (The British Commander-In-Chief's Mission to the Group Soviet Forces of Occupation in Germany) is one of the most little-known and covert elite units of the British Army. They were dropped in behind 'enemy lines' ten months after the Second World War had ended and remained operation their intelligence-gathering missions until the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. During the period Berlin was a hotbed of spying between East and West. BRIXMIS was established as a legitimate channel of communcation between the Red Army and the British Army on the Rhine, they were trusted by.