Live and let spy

By Steve Gibson

Subjects: International Relations, General, Espionage, british, Cold war, Cold War, British Commander-in-Chief's Mission to the Group of Soviet Forces of Occupation in Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Secret service, Government, History, British Espionage, Secret service, great britain, International

Description: BRIXMIS (The British Commander-In-Chief's Mission to the Group Soviet Forces of Occupation in Germany) is one of the most little-known and covert elite units of the British Army. They were dropped in behind 'enemy lines' ten months after the Second World War had ended and remained operation their intelligence-gathering missions until the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. During the period Berlin was a hotbed of spying between East and West. BRIXMIS was established as a legitimate channel of communcation between the Red Army and the British Army on the Rhine, they were trusted by.