Altglienicke
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…ld reach them. The geography of Berlin—the location of the cables, the distance from the American sector at Rudow to the Soviet cables near Altglienicke—presented both an irresistible target and a unique engineering challenge. The engineering challenge was significant but not insurmountable.…
- The Man Who Hated Paper…erable scale, requiring the excavation of a quarter-mile tunnel from the American sector at Rudow to a point beneath the Soviet sector near Altglienicke, where three cables carrying Soviet military communications ran in a conduit beneath a roadside. The tunnel had to be dug in secret, despit…
- A Service in Exile…ed the imbalance and exploited it. He pushed for a tunnel that would run from the American sector at Rudow under the border to a point near Altglienicke, where three Soviet army telephone cables ran in a common conduit. The distance was roughly a quarter-mile. The technical challenges were s…