France / Afghanistan / United Kingdom / Scotland / East Germany / Germany / West Germany / Libya / Russia / United States / Soviet Union / /
Currency
GBP / / /
Event
Person Travel / Labor Issues / Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
Olympic Stadium / Plötzensee prison / HQ BAOR / Headquarters Berlin / RAF Gatow airfield / HQ GSFG / Soviet garrison / Hotel Elephant / BRIXMIS headquarters / Checkpoint Alpha / Stahnsdorf War Graves cemetery / Spandau Prison / HQ RAF / Royal Military Police station / Helmstedt Allied roadhouse / Berlin Corridor autobahn / British Military Hospital / centre of Potsdam / Tiergarten Soviet War Memorial / Joint Headquarters / Berlin garrison / Sansouci Palace / Intelligence Centre / Olympic Stadium complex / German High Command complex / /
Holiday
New Year's Day / Commonwealth Day / 4th of July / Bastille Day / Remembrance Day / Christmas / /
IndustryTerm
photographic equipment / telephone boxes / food / fixed communications / liaison equipment / saloon car / elegant and traditional hotel / civil telephone / prototype thermal imaging video camera / communications equipment / rubber factory / served food / office machinery / /
NaturalFeature
river Elbe / Baltic coast / Rhine / /
Organization
Royal Navy / Royal Air Force / Foreign Office / Unity Party / Station / Ministry of Defence / Ministry of State Security / Army School of Languages / Army / British Sector’s Royal Military Police / North Atlantic Treaty Organization / SERB party / Berlin Senate / Intelligence Centre / Soviet Embassy / Special Air Service / British Military Hospital / Britannia Centre / German High Command / Allied Military Liaison Missions / Commonwealth / Berlin police / Canadian Army / French Mission / Soviet mission / East Berlin Embassy / British Military Government / Soviet and East German Army / Berlin Air Safety Centre / NATO Military Liaison Mission / RAF Gatow / Soviet Officers Club / Intelligence Corps / SED Politburo / British Foreign Office / Federal Government / East German military / Royal Military Police / British Embassy / Royal Air Force Germany / in-Chief Mission / British Army / NATO MLM / /
Person
Helmut Kohl / Arthur / Musa Zhalil / Joanna / Mal Girling / Colin Ward / Sukhonosov / Norman Wisdom / Stalin / Williams / Pawel Bacler / Gennady Savin / Bogomolov / David Mostyn / Yuri Pliev / Dickie Dawson / Peter Tower / Commandant / Commanding / Albert Zalilov / Willie Macnair / Zarina Vashurina / Rubanov / Tony Haw / Gorbachev / Valentina Anufrieva / Erich Honecker / Hannelore / Nigel Shakespear / Anne / Dmitri Trenin / /
Position
Captain / Warrant Officer / second officer / unmarried officer / President / Staff Sergeant / normally unflappable Soviet military interpreter / forester / duty interpreter / Ground Operations Officer / Chancellor / General / head / Ambassador / Chief / tall and lugubrious sergeant / officer / Colonel / group captain / King / Chief of Staff / Sergeant / Highland officer / Major / receptionist / Tour Driver / Major General / young Soviet sergeant / Queen / Federal Chancellor / renowned poet / experienced Tour Driver / head of government / politician / Mission House warrant officer / Lieutenant Colonel / officer / Senator / Intelligence Officer / Gunner / Interpreter / Soviet officer / Colonel / Governor / Tour Officer captain / General Officer / Soviet interpreter / Spandau Prison guard platoon commander / young officer / Commander / GSFG Chief / Sapper officer / tour officer / Chief / a Soviet colonel / Brigadier / Liaison Officer / Colonel / Potsdam Duty Officer / first Head / Operations Officer / Liaison Officer / /
BRIXMIS IN THE 1980s: THE COLD WAR’S “GREAT GAME” MEMORIES OF LIAISING WITH THE SOVIET ARMY IN EAST GERMANY