Working Grant - targetBRUSSELS

BRUSSELS - targetBRUSSELS gathers information on the activities of Eastern European secret services in Brussels during the Cold War. The research is based on the intelligence archives of the former German Democratic Republic, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Romania.

Since the relocation of the NATO headquarters to Brussels in 1964 and the expanse of the European institutions, Belgium’s capital has become a hotspot for spy activities.

Secret services from several Warsaw Pact countries established spying activities inside Brussels, looking for information on international organisations and institutions, companies and individuals. Obviously, the NATO headquarters was one of the top targets. But also plenty of diplomatic representations and Belgian and Europan government administrations were on the target list of spies from the East.

targetBRUSSELS is made possible with the financial support of Fonds Pascal Decroos, a Belgian foundation promoting investigative journalism.

File number: 

2010/819

4.000 euro granted on 31/05/2010.

 

Authors

Kristof Clerix

Kristof Clerix (°1978) works as a journalist for MO*, a Belgian monthly magazine on international affairs.