European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Is a try z svy  a a. Its. .1 Tivo women examine a display Board identifying the Stasi s former properties in Leipzig. A amps Ken George. A  a a a  a a a a a a. A a a a a a a a a. A a a a a is amps Ken George a Case holds jars containing scent probes plus false hair nose Putty and makeup used in Stasi  close look at the feared Sta Siby de Reavis staff writer an exhibition showing the nefarious Workings of the former East German ministry of state Security is currently touring German cities lifting the veil of secrecy behind which the feared Stasi worked. A the exhibit titled Quot the Stasi a Power and banality a a evidence of their crimes Quot is a copy of the permanent exhibit housed in the former Stasi Headquarters in Leipzig. The display is at Pauls Kirche in Frankfurt where it will remain through april 26. One drawback for american visitors is that the exhibit. And Catalon Are in German Only. The Stasi official motto was Quot the shield and sword Quot of the government but it often supplanted the government it was a master of psycho terror whose very name put fear into the hearts of East German citizens. When the government crumbled Stasi Headquarters All Over the country were stormed by angry people while Stasi members frantically fed incriminating evidence into shredders. \ a., the Frankfurt exhibit uses tilt s and other evidence found in the Leipzig Headquarters. It is an exhibit the promoters claim that could not be. Assembled today after Vest German privacy act Laws have been extended to the new German states in the East. It. ,. A a v. A. A. A a a / a \ the exhibit contains copies of documents culled fro files  the breadth of Stasi activities. It includes the notorious Quot scent archives Quot scent probes Tahyi from Stasi suspects and conserved in sealed Glasse it a a a a a the Stasi assumed that every human being has a specific scent that he or she leaves behind whenever. Anything is touched a a kind of olfactory fingerprint. The scent probes were taken secretly by removing something from a persons Home or by placing a piece of a cloth on a chair the suspect sat on during some harmless questioning at the local police  cloth or object. Vav is then used with scent detecting dogs to determine if a suspect was present at a specific place. The exhibit also shows the system of plume taps the \ Stasi used. The Stasi tapped nearly All phone Calls not. Only to or from foreign countries but also within the country. The Stasi was capable of listening in on 2,000 Calls and taping More than 350 simultaneously. A another display Board shows How the Stasi used false postmarks to counterfeit letters from abroad. Letters postmarked from the . Or other countries were used to provoke citizens into writing something or even acting against the state. Quot the Leipzig exhibit has been running for a year and it still interests people a said Angelika Pohler a member of the Leipzig citizens committe for the abolishment of the state Security police the group that organized the exhibit y cd Quot a a a a a a Pohler said there was a great it de for information about the Workings of Stasi in the former East Germany but was t sure How to judge the reaction in the . Germany. The exhibit was Sli Ovyn in Hannover Munster and Cologne  Frankfurt. It will have at least three More stops. She said some Western germans who attend the exhibit ask when they Are going to. Abolish the West German intelligence Agency the and or Laim the Stasi is nothing compared to the and. 1 Quot such remarks can Only come from pure ignorant e about life in the old East Germany. Here in the West the intelligence Agency is controlled by parliament and in the final analysis by the people particularly the press. Quot the Stasi ran wild. It was a government of it s own within the government. I Hope the recent shocking news of Stasi involvement in terror acts by the red army faction Here in the West will make people realize How important it is to face and understand How the Stasi a came about and How it worked Quot Pohler said. Seven top sex Stasi members including the chief of tire ministry for state Security were recently arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting in the attempted murder of Frederick Kroesen former Usa eur commanding general and the car bombing at Ramstein a Germany both in 1981.Pohler said Quot i do know that the Stasi is now part of our common heritage and the More we ignore it the More dangerous it is for our future Quot Pohler said. At the Brief opening ceremony of the exhibit Linda Reisch chief of Frankfurt s cultural affairs expressed her Hope that Many people would visit the shows Reisch had undergone intense Stasi observation while living in West Berlin. She was banned from the East Germany because of her Friendship with that country s leading dissident Robert Havemann.  fall of East Germany the Stasi had 85,000 full time employees with an estimated 100,000 informers throughout the country. In its then East Berlin Headquarters it had More than 60 Miles of file s on German citizens. The citizens committee has discovered 2,401 full time employees and 9,360 Stollies in the District of Leipzig which has 1.5 million inhabitants. A Quot we Are certain that the Structure and Hierarchy of the Stasi has been destroyed but we Don t know if there Are Small groups of former Stasi m embers still working underground for some other intelligence organization a Pohler said. The exhibit in the Pauls Kirche located adjacent to Frankfurt s City Hall Square rom Eris open every Day from wednesday through sunday from 10 . To 5 . Until april 26. After leaving Frankfurt the exhibit is scheduled to go to Munich Stuttgart and Bonn. Dates for those cities have not been set. April 18, 1991 stripes Maea me