Steve Gibson was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1983. He was selected for special duties training and posted to a unit in West Berlin, operating exclusively in East Germany between 1988 and 1990. A number of staff and military intelligence appointments followed before Steve left the Army in 1993, with the rank of Major and an MBE awarded as a direct result of his work in East Germany. Richard J. Aldrich is a professor of International Security at University of Warwick, and the author of The Hidden Hand: Britain, America, and Cold War Secret Intelligence.
