Secret Intelligence Service
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 Paper…ally tap them to hear what they carried. Harvey’s predecessor in Berlin had 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 tu…
- A Service in Exile…, the memorandum from the Treasury arrived at No. 2 Carlton Gardens in the spring of 1953, its figures arranged in columns that reduced the Secret Intelligence Service to a series of economies. The clerk who logged it noted the date and the originating department. The paper requested a review of overseas s…
- The Mole in the GardenOn a summer day in 1953, a posting order arrived at Secret Intelligence Service headquarters. Typed on Foreign Office stationery and routed through standard channels, this document listed George Blake’s name, his grade,…