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.