Rudow
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…dug from the western sectors could 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…
- The Man Who Hated Paper…bles that carried Red Army communications. The CIA history notes that the first project was the construction of a warehouse in the Neukölln/Rudow district, with an unconventionally deep basement to serve as the staging area. Harvey had found his calling. His new posting was Berlin, th…
- A Service in ExileTwo years before the tunnel in Rudow would become a physical fact, the memorandum from the Treasury arrived at No. 2 Carlton Gardens in the spring of 1953, its figures arranged…