So glad to see the full episode thanks

yes much better than micro release

Fantastic, these types of stories are not taught in school, so good to see them.

I love stuff like this and have a great intrest in the cold war...At the moment im travelling round the ex soviets states but further east Ukriane, Georgia Khazakstan etc. More like this please :)

Great Video. I was on the other side Policing the Russians in the West as they had similar Missions called "SOXMIS" Soviet Military Mission. I served 1987 to 1990.

Nothing would have happened to them if caught. In fact they were under heavy Stasi and KGB surveillance 24/7. If caught doing illegal stuff they would have just been arrested and exchanged for KGB and Stasi guys caught in the West. There was never any danger for Brits or US intelligence personnel. This was not a James Bond movie.

@@mateo1726 With the right script there is a possibility of a drama with action/ thriller elements and a bit of comedy. Charlie Wilson's War meets The Bridge of Spies sort of thing.

No script, just history.

But then again hollywood will make it about saving tge world with space force

Come on! It’s just gonna be Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, it will be completely unrealistic, and completely bad.

I was serving in BFG Munster former west deutschland in 2006 to 2008, went to Berlin for a week in August 2019,

What did the Russians do? and how quickly?

If you team can see the Soviets digging for a cable , probably it was a decoy.

From what I've read Stasi and KGB knew each of your steps in advance. US intelligence in particular was compromised by double-agents reporting directly to Mielke. Remember that guy from Teufelsberg who was only snatched and charged after the Berlin Wall fell?

@@esahm373 I met the American warrant officer that worked at T-berg a few times. He bragged he had a rich aunt that left him money. His Stasi handler was the shop manager for the auto craft shop on Andrews Barracks. Shortly after working on my friend's car there, we got approached by a man who knew who we were & that he wanted secrets. He approached us the Reichstag. At least one electronic bug was found in T-berg. My section discovered it's signal one evening. The trash from our facility was sent to East Berlin where Stasi trainees sifted thru it. We had Soviet recon flights break the rules, cross into our airspace, & take pictures. During the summer they sent a helicopter. They took a few pictures of the Hill & the rest were of the nearby nude beach. OMG, it was an incredible assignment. So much drama & intrigue. We were all living in a spy novel there.

The Cold War was truly the peak of espionage in the classic sense of spies. Of course these days we still have counter intelligence and spying missions around the world but technology has rendered so much of the classic spying/ BRIXMIS style missions completely impossible. The days of talking your way out of a checkpoint when the checkpoint itself is an information sponge - networked cameras and intelligence apparatus all working much faster than the human mind ever could - is just gone forever. The classic days of parabolic mics and forged identity documents is just gone, you could never blag your way into facility in that style today. So the Cold War truly is the "James Bond" era of spying. When technology was still second to the man in the trenchcoat and hat, when wits and guile meant you could get away and human side of counter intelligence meant you could find telegraph books used as toilet paper. These days information is so much more closely guarded and encrypted, the human element is almost second to technology now.

@@dynamo1796 Well said. I entirely agree.

Those were the days.....please read my comment just now.

We called them SMLM or "smell-em"

It would have been much better to leave them alone. One less SOXMIS team to look for and one to covertly track on its route. Any convoy on public roads would have nothing to hide.

And people like your dad gave all of us the best edge we could have had. Absolute respect, and thanks!

Chippy is an outstanding character - cool and calm when it was important to be on top of things and with a wonderful sense of humour.

so basically stasi followed Brixmis officers everywhere?

@@mumin9436 Dunno. But speaking in general terms, MfS followed EVERYONE EVERYWHERE. At least, they clearly wanted to leave this kind of impression.

What did you’re cat do ?

wow ... are you serious ? thats crazy

That's why it's called the spy stuff😂😂😂.

The first time I'd heard anything about it was the second I went on guard duty in Hemer, W.Germany and handed the card by by guard commander. 'Watch out for SOXMIS' he said. And he was probably wondering why there was a puzzled look on my face.

There was one at NAM Chelsea. The ExMilitary vehicle I'd love to get hold of.

You did God's work, probably the best fine you ever paid.

Check out the "cold war conversations" podcast. He interviews these guys all the time from both sides

The sort of thing that the BBC would have done as it did with the Secret War.

@@Johnconno It was William Woollard who narrated Secret War. Again no silly sound tracks and just interviews with the people there. Really worth a watch. That said Forces TV is doing a good job!

PS All mission cars had total immunity....as did the occupants as long as they stayed in their car.

What is the name of the book?

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Fun job is an understatement - best job any of us had!

Just don't get caught...😎

Tv Tube Time small island with a small gene pool. Doesn’t help when most of the best of the gene pool is permanently lost through two world wars

@@andreidarie4076 the size of the island is irrelevant, still got one of the biggest populations in Europe

@@jude_the_apostle and increasingly one of a progressively lower average IQ.

@@andreidarie4076 For some reason the British politicians decided to import an entirely new gene pool along with the wonderful cultural practices onto their island

@@777zebo And sell its creativity to the USA, and china

I have seen similar just listed as bivi bags or micro tents

Soxmis was ?

@@vedantmehra6970 soxmis was the soviet version of mobile spies...i was in germany in the 1980's and in the packonexercise one day mid 80's everyone was having kittens as someone had spotted a car with soxmis plates....i had no idea what soxmis was but when it was exxplained to me what it was and we did the same i thought what a cool job.....the most excitment i got was as a 432 driver....those louvres where awesome during winter exercises though

@@GolfMike09 Soxmis vehicles were nothing special. Normal civil cars. They were bought colorfully at car markets and not repainted. Only the yellow license plate prevented her. The missions were particularly expensive for the Soviet Union. They had to finance and operate a total of 3 military missions, while the Western Allies only had to operate one mission each. BRIXMIS did most of the work with their cars. They had specially modified Opel Senators. The list of differences from the civil vehicle is long: Here are the most important differences: 3.0 l six-cylinder engines were used throughout. All control electronics were removed. In the Opel Motorsport department, it was converted to carburetor operation and contact ignition and optimized for an output of approx. 178 hp. They received an all-wheel drive from Furgeson. At that time, it also produced the all-wheel drives for the Jensen Interceptor. The tank volume was increased to 180 L petrol etc. Very interesting vehicles.

@@michaelgahler4729 thanks for the details. Now where can I get one?

@@51WCDodge You probably won't get any more, the cars have all been scrapped. One is in an English museum, another exists in Germany, but has been completely converted to civilian. These are the originals I know. Then there are still some replicas, but without the all-wheel drive. There are also no more spare parts. The cars were scrapped after 60,000 km because the stress in use was so high. In total, the BRIXMIS had around 200 cars built.

The Russians were very active in the West but were never at the risk of death that the Foreign troops in the East were. I was one of many that policed the Russians "Soxmis" in former West Germany from 1987 to 1990. They were clearly effective at gaining intelligence. They were followed by Marked Military Police Vehicles and Covert Intelligence Vehicles. The Americans and the French operated independently from the British Sectors, although the Missions used to enter the British Sector on occasion. The used Dead Letter Box's for disposing of film and photo's that they took whilst out spying on the British Troops in West Germany. Ironically the British Mission in the East was the largest of all the Missions, they even had a propeller plane to use.

Sadly it's come back only in a different way, the division of America.

It never ended

My great grandpa lost two fingers picking up the wrong things in a Range. People wouldn't believe how many things don't explode when first fired.

Thought so myself, and I've never been in the military. Wonder how many limbs (or lives) were lost by Brixmis and other agencies' personnel who went "treasure hunting"? Part of the story they neglected to tell?

@Dan Didnot What kind of intel did you gather?

If Hilda,s Bar was open.

His Intel was: How many prostitutes Stazi had on their payroll

Yes, the whole point of the operation was that it was overt. The West had people in the East openly gathering information, and vice versa. They were spying in a sense, but legally so, and allowed to do it. The program only makes it sound like an illegal covert operation for dramatic reasons, and tiringly so.

SOXMIS

@@ingvarhallstrom2306 But like any Diplomat, you are there legally, what you get up to on the other hand... Also both Soviet and Allied forces were in a nominally Forign Country, The German Democratic Republic,who had thier own axe to grind.

@@ingvarhallstrom2306 Ingvar you are not right. In principle the MLMs on both sides were legally stationed in each others' zones but in practice they wanted to minimise as much as possible what we could see and do which led to rammings, injuries, and deaths of two of my colleagues. We were banned from large areas of the GDR , called PRAs (Permanently Restricted Areas). All of us agree it was the most exciting job we ever had in the military.

@@nigeldunkley2986 I bet, it must've been awesome! What I'm objecting isn't the operation itself but the way the documentary makes it look like an illegal covert operation when it was an officially recognised mutual overt operation that was very much known. It's just a way of the filmmakers to use film dramaturgy to heighten the suspense, which is totally unnecessary when it comes to one of the most interesting spy operations in history. They're trying to look like something it wasn't, us my point.

I think it was more the speed at which it fell. IIRC it was all over in a couple of days.

De-Narking. Nark is a slang term in the UK/AUS/NZ and other Anglo-British countries for an Undercover policeman/Spy/Informant/ a snitch / Unpleasant individual. Meaning is context dependent of course. In this case he is talking about shaking off the undercover Stasi officers following and observing them. Hence De-Narking, The Soviets called it something like "prachechnaya" which translates to Laundry, Basically cleaning yourself of surveillance.

That's obvious, he'd have been getting chased or just evading.

I would be very, very interest if you have any more information on that. As far as I knew it was under the outer plates and it would not have been a quick job to have had it. That said the Soviets did get versions when Iran handed over Chieftains.

@@hypergolic8468 I have very little info. I was living as a teenager with the units receiving the first challengers at the time and there was a failure to keep the embarresing episode secret in the officers mess. Always been curious as to how it could have been done. Apparently it happened on the back of an Antar transporter while in transit.

It was all officially agreed, the Soviets had exactly the same on the Western exercises.

@Denise Raikes I respect these people for sure, but you don’t seem to be aware that Western oppression exists, but is covert and run by financial corporate and empires.

@@hArtyTruffle True , they don’t realise the same group of globalist scum that have no loyalty to any country are responsible for all the oppression they create , it’s all about controlling the tax cattle Macmillan, New York, p. 326 * When people of this class are stricken by guilt feelings while plotting world wars and economic depressions which will bring misery, suffering and death to millions of the world’s inhabitants, they sometimes have qualms. These qualms are jeered at by their peers as "a failure of nerve". After a bout with their psychiatrists, they return to their work with renewed gusto, with no further digressions of pity for "the little people" who are to be their victims. Carroll Quigley : Tragedy & Hope The Ultimate Bankster Quote - from a former Governor of the Bank of England Montague Norman (1920 - 1944) Posted on April 4, 2011 | 32 Comments “Capital must protect itself in every possible way, both by combination and legislation. Debts must be collected, mortgages foreclosed as rapidly as possible. “When, through process of law, the common people lose their homes, they will become more docile and more easily governed through the strong arm of the government applied by a central power of wealth under leading financiers. “These truths are well known among our principal men, who are now engaged in forming an imperialism to govern the world. By dividing the voter through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting for questions of no importance. “It is thus, by discrete action, we can secure for ourselves that which has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.”