East Berlin
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…sensitive communications to cables buried underground or strung on poles. These cables carried conversations between Soviet headquarters in East Berlin, military installations in the surrounding countryside, and the higher command in Moscow. The physical wire replaced the broadcast signal.…
- Moscow’s Calculated Silence…quired coordination across Soviet intelligence services and their East German counterparts. Karlshorst, the Soviet military headquarters in East Berlin, housed the KGB residency that would have received Blake’s reports through his handler. The Stasi, East Germany’s security service, maintai…
- The Warehouse of Ears…d military communications from Soviet army headquarters in Zossen, near Berlin, along with traffic between Moscow and the Soviet embassy in East Berlin and exchanges between East German and Soviet officials. American planners had sought evidence of hostile military intent. The intercept ope…