Lecture: BEHIND THE LINES IN THE COLD WAR:
THE STORY OF BRIXMIS
Venue: Oxford: St Antony's College, the New Room
Time: 23 February, 6 pm
By Roy Giles, CBE, MA, Hon D. Litt.
Roy Giles is a former army officer, civil servant, and
Cody Fellow at
St Antony's College, now research consultant.
BRIXMIS - was initially proposed in the Anglo-Soviet
London Agreement of November 1944, as a means of
effecting the necessary liaison between the British
and Soviet military authorities in postwar occupied
Germany. BRIXMIS was in the event "launched" by the
Robertson-Malinin Agreement of September 1946, with a
base in the main Soviet Zone garrison of Potsdam.
Mission strength was set at 31 All Ranks, who were
given Soviet military identity cards. There was a
reciprocal Soviet mission set up at Bunde in the
British zone. Mission members had diplomatic immunity,
and freedom of travel throughout the zone in which
they were accredited.
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