KGB
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…ss of the tunnel, however, was shadowed by a fact that the planners did not know. The MI6 officer George Blake had reported the plan to the KGB before the first shovel went in. Blake, a Soviet mole embedded in British intelligence, had been recruited during the Korean War and had be…
- The Man Who Hated Paper…re was, of course, an irony in this view, though Harvey could not have known it at the time. The tunnel’s planning had been reported to the KGB before the first shovel went in. George Blake, the MI6 officer assigned to the British side of the operation, had been recruited by the Sov…
- The Mole in the Garden…intelligence saw an opportunity. Blake was not merely a convert; he was a trained intelligence officer with access to British secrets. The KGB, through intermediaries, made contact. The circumstances of the approach remain unclear—whether Blake initiated contact or the Soviets iden…