Communists 'used radioactive tracking on dissidents'

Dissidents in communist East Germany were given radioactive "tags" that allowed them to be tracked with Geiger counters.

Communists 'used radioactive tracking on dissidents'

Dissidents in communist East Germany were given radioactive "tags" that allowed them to be tracked with Geiger counters.

Files from the German Democratic Republic's secret police, the Stasi, showed that people suspected of being enemies of the state were sprayed with radioactive chemicals.

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