Socialist Party

The Spies Among Us

Aleksandra Biernacka / October 16, 2025

CONTROL: From training teens as agents to weaponizing psychology, this story exposes the machinery of East German social control and its wounds that still linger.

Cold War, control, East German, Gabriel Silverman, Jamie Coughlin Silverman, KGB, Paradigm Talent Agency, secret service, SideXSide Studios, Socialist Party, Stasi, surveillance, The Spies Among Us, Warsaw Film Festival

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