{"id":3062,"date":"2017-05-04T23:38:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T07:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2023-09-19T05:59:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T13:59:21","slug":"stasi-facebook-big-data-daad-day-5-mfs-department-m-organizational-structure-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/stasi-facebook-big-data-daad-day-5-mfs-department-m-organizational-structure-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Stasi \/ Facebook \/ Big Data DAAD Day 5 \u2013 MfS Department M (Organizational structure overview)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-05-at-9.29.22-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-05-at-9.29.22-AM.png\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1989 Department M had 10 divisions, which were subdivided into 36 units. The head office, which consisted of 8 divisions and their corresponding units, was located in East Berlin. The divisions were organized based on mail destinations (western, non-communist countries for example), types of mail (like parcels or telegrams), or function within the scope of the work of the Department. Specific units were tasked with selecting mail for examination, while in technical processing units the selected mail was opened, examined, documented, and closed again by their respective units. Other units in Department M were assigned to inspecting customs declarations, maintaining secrecy, or operational engineering, where design, manufacturing, and maintenance of the technology took place. (Labrenz-Wei\u00df, 8\u201310)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Hanna Labrenz-Wei\u00df, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stasi-unterlagen-archiv.de\/assets\/bstu\/de\/Publikationen\/MfS-HB_16_Abteilung_M_Inhalt_Internet_barrierefrei_2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abteilung M (MfS Handbuch)<\/a>. Hg. BStU. Berlin 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1989 Department M had 10 divisions, which were subdivided into 36 units. The head office, which consisted of 8 divisions and their corresponding units, was located in East Berlin. The divisions were organized based on mail destinations (western, non-communist countries for example), types of mail (like parcels or telegrams), or function within the scope [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/stasi-facebook-big-data-daad-day-5-mfs-department-m-organizational-structure-overview\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Stasi \/ Facebook \/ Big Data DAAD Day 5 \u2013 MfS Department M (Organizational structure overview)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90],"tags":[133,86,170,31],"class_list":["post-3062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-berlin","tag-germany","tag-stasi","tag-surveillance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ovQg-No","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3062"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3355,"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions\/3355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owenmundy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}