He is an internationally known expert on spying in post-war Germany as well as on the participation of German nuclear physicists in the Soviet atomic bomb project.
Paul Maddrell's research interests center around security, intelligence, and Post-War Germany.
He often is invited to media interviews and conferences on intelligence, especially about the former East German State Security.
So he was recently interviewed in a BBC Radio 4 bulletin of 5 November 2012 on Soviet nuclear weapons in the GDR during the Second Berlin Crisis.
[1] He also took part as lecturer at the International Conference “Need to Know II: ‘Lessons learned’” organized by the Southern Denmark University in Odense, 16–17 October 2012[2]