Peter Lunn
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…om 1949 to 1955, covertly tapped into the landline communications of the Soviet Army headquarters in Vienna. The operation’s staff included Peter Lunn and Peter Montagnon, officers who would later play roles in the Berlin operation. The Vienna tunnel proved the concept: dig from friendly t…
- The Man Who Hated Paper…explored the possibility of accessing these cables. The British Secret Intelligence Service, which maintained its own Berlin station under Peter Lunn, had experience with cable taps from earlier operations. The idea of digging a tunnel to reach the Soviet cables had been proposed as early…
- A Service in Exile…wers the service could not easily provide. The Berlin station occupied a peculiar position in this reckoning. It had been run since 1949 by Peter Lunn, a career officer whose father, Sir Reginald Lunn, had served in the diplomatic corps. The younger Lunn had joined the service during the w…