William King Harvey
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 Man Who Hated PaperThe memorandum that crossed J. Edgar Hoover’s desk in early 1952 bore the signature of William King Harvey, a former FBI man who had transferred to the Central Intelligence Agency three years earlier. The document itself has not survived in uncla…
- A Service in Exile…how to run operations. They did not know how to dig tunnels into Soviet territory and tap military cables. The distinction was not lost on William King Harvey. The CIA officer had arrived in Berlin in 1952, transferred from the counterintelligence staff in Washington. Harvey had seen the Treasury…
- The Mole in the Garden…Blake’s arrival, continued preparations. Tunnel planning advanced through meetings, memoranda, technical assessments. The Americans, led by William King Harvey, pushed the project forward with energy that had become his hallmark. Harvey had transferred to the CIA from the FBI in 1947 and built repu…