Snowden basically admits the "direct access" claim was bullshit.

[MADem]

123. History sure is something--you might want to stop laughing and get up off the floor.

They frequently used Nazi symbolism and references to advance their cause, and the Stasi was littered throughout with former Nazis at all levels:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi

The Stasi ordered a campaign in which cemeteries and other Jewish sites in West Germany were smeared with swastikas and other Nazi symbols. Funds were channelled to a small West German group for it to defend Adolf Eichmann.[41]


The Stasi channelled large amounts of money to Neo-Nazi groups in West, with the purpose of discrediting the West.[42]

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http://www.dw.de/book-claims-stasi-employed-nazis-as-spies/a-1760980

The former East Germany's feared Stasi secret police set Nazi officers to work as spies and protected them from prosecution, according to a new book that belies the official anti-fascist stance of the communist regime.
Historian Henry Leide drew on Stasi files that have not been opened to the general public since the fall of communism in 1989 to trace the often well-paid careers of 35 of Hitler's men who found a reprieve in the secret police.
The case of SS officer Hans Sommer is not exceptional, according to the book titled "Nazi Criminals and the Secret Service: The German Democratic Republic's Secret Ways of Dealing With the Past."
Sommer was instrumental in the bombing of seven synagogues in Paris in October 1941. But after World War II, he spent years spying on right-wing politicians for the new regime in East Germany, and was later posted to Italy where he continued to do the same...."The Stasi deliberately and systematically recruited Nazi criminals, sometimes those who orchestrated massacres, as informers and agents both in the east and the west," Leide said.
Josef Settnik, a Gestapo operative who was based at the infamous Auschwitz death camp, was awaiting a death sentence and had already said goodbye to his wife when he was recruited by the Stasi in 1964 as a church spy.

You think they invented that shit they pulled? They learned from the masters.