Operational identity check
The GDR Ministry for State Security (MfS) called Operative Personal Controls ( OPK ) checks of people and the associated gathering of information. They were created in 1971 to distinguish them from operational processes on the basis of the MfS Directive 1/71 and further specified in 1981. The aim was to identify “ hostile negative actions ” at an early stage and thus prevent them. Operational identity checks were initiated in the event of suspected crimes and criminal offenses, oppositional behavior but also for the preventive protection of security-relevant persons. Through political-operational cooperation , state organs, companies and institutes, social organizations, the German People's Police and other institutions were used to obtain information. Further information was obtained through a systematic breach of postal and telecommunications secrecy . Inquiries were often made about the family environment of the person concerned and about friends and colleagues. The findings of the personal check were recorded in a final report and thus formed the preliminary stage for any subsequent operational processes. Between 1985 and 1988, the MfS carried out around 8,000 operational identity checks every year.
literature
- Reinhard Buthmann: Operative identity control. In: Roger Engelmann , Bernd Florath , Walter Suss et al. (Ed.): The MfS-Lexikon. Terms, persons and structures of the state security of the GDR. Ch. Links Verlag , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-627-7 , p. 230f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See guideline no. 1/76 on the development and processing of operational processes (OV) , BStU, ZA, DSt, GVS MfS OO8 / 100/76, doc. in: David Gill / Ulrich Schröter: The Ministry for State Security , Berlin 1991, pp. 346–402.
- ↑ See Bernd Eisenfeld : Resistant behavior as reflected in statistics and analyzes of the MfS . In: Klaus-Dietmar Henke / Roger Engelmann (eds.): File situation - The importance of the State Security Service's records for contemporary history research , Berlin 1995, pp. 157–176, here p. 161.