The Stasi infiltrated and tried to influence every organization they could get half a toehold in, in both the BRD/DDR. That doesn't mean they favored (or other

The Stasi infiltrated and tried to influence every organization they could get half a toehold in, in both the BRD/DDR. That doesn't mean they favored (or otherwise sought to promote) all of the aims and goals of the organizations. Or even any of their aims, necessary. Their primary goal in doing so was, first and foremost, that of their very motto: To know everything