Operation Gold
Books
- Under Berlin The Berlin Tunnel, George Blake, and the Cold War's Greatest Intelligence Gamble · Liszt Think
In 1955, American and British intelligence tunneled beneath the Berlin border to tap Soviet military cables, capturing a river of secret conversations.
- The City of Wire…but a direct, almost inevitable, product of Berlin’s fractured postwar existence. Planning for the Berlin tunnel began in earnest in 1953. Operation Gold, as it was designated, was planned jointly by the SIS and the CIA. Initial planning meetings were held at No. 2 Carlton Gardens in London,…
- The Man Who Hated Paper…ember 1953, according to the official CIA history of the Berlin Tunnel operation, Harvey was placed in charge of what would become known as Operation Gold. The operation’s objective was audacious: to dig a tunnel from the American sector of Berlin into the Soviet sector and tap the underground…
- A Service in Exile…on needed a success, and Harvey needed partners who knew things his own people did not. The initial planning meetings for what would become Operation Gold—known to the British as Operation Stopwatch—were held at No. 2 Carlton Gardens, the London headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service.…