Betrayal in Berlin : the true story of the Cold War's most audacious espionage operation

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Personal Author:

Vogel, Steve, 1960-

Edition:

First Edition.

Physical Description:

x, 530 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimile, photographs ; 24 cm.

Summary:

The author presents the astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West's greatest espionage operations of the Cold War--and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it.

Subject Term:

Operation Stopwatch/Gold, Berlin, Germany, 1955-1956

Espionage, American -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.

Espionage, British -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.

Electronic intelligence -- Germany -- Berlin.

Cold War

Publication Info:

New York, NY : Custom House, [2019]

Subject:

Operation Stopwatch/Gold, Berlin, Germany, 1955-1956

Espionage, American -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.

Espionage, British -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.

Electronic intelligence -- Germany -- Berlin.

Cold War

Berlin (Germany) -- History -- 1945-1990

United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Great Britain. MI6

Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti

Agjencia Qendrore e Inteligjencës

Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.)

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

CIP (United States. Centrālās izlūkošanas pārvalde)

Mei-kuo chung yang chʻing pao chü

National Security Council (U.S.). Central Intelligence Agency

Si Aing Ei

T͡Sentralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA

T͡SRU SShA

T͡SRU (T͡Sentralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie SShA)

United States. Agencia Central de Inteligencia

United States. Agjencia Qendrore e Inteligjencës

United States. Bạho Htauk Hlān Yēi Ạhpwẹ

United States. Central de Inteligencia Americana

United States. Centrālās izlūkošanas pārvalde

United States. Chung yang chʻing pao chü

United States. Intelligence Agency, Central

United States. T͡Sentralʹnoe razvedyvatelʹnoe upravlenie

United States. Wakālat al-Mukhābarāt al-Markazīyah

United States. Центральное разведывательное управление

ЦРУ США

ЦРУ (Центральное разведывательное управление США)

Центральное разведывательное управление США

ארצות הברית. סי. אי. איי

美 !7o. 中央情報!; P

MI6 (Great Britain)

British Secret Intelligence Service

Angliĭskai͡a Sekretnai͡a Sluzhba "Intellidzhens servis"

Great Britain. Secret Service

Great Britain. Secret Intelligence Service

Great Britain. Intellidzhens servis

SIS (Secret Intelligence Service)

Great Britain. MI-6

Great Britain. Ministry of Defence. Secret Intelligence Service

Great Britain. MIsix

Great Britain. MI-Six

Great Britain. Angliĭskai͡a Sekretnai͡a Sluzhba "Intellidzhens servis"

KGB

USSR KGB

K.G.B.

Russia (1923- U.S.S.R.). Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti

Soviet Union. Gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti, Komitet

Soviet Union. Sovet Ministrov. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti

Soviet Union. Comité de sécurité de l'Etat soviétique

Soviet Union. Ṿaʻadah le-viṭḥon ha-medinah

KA-GKE-BE

KGB SSSR

ק.ג.ב

Soviet Union. Комитет государственной безопасности

Operation Gold, Berlin, Germany, 1955-1956

Operation Stopwatch, Berlin, Germany, 1955-1956

British espionage

Electronic spying

ELINT (Electronic intelligence)

Intelligence, Electronic

Allied occupation, Berlin, Germany, 1945-1990

Berlin (Germany) -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1990

Berlin question (1945- )

SAILS ISBN:

9780062449627

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Summary

"A riveting and vivid account. ... A remarkable story. ... It reads like a Hollywood screenplay." --Foreign Affairs

The astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West's greatest espionage operations of the Cold War--and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it.

Its code name was "Operation Gold," a wildly audacious CIA plan to construct a clandestine tunnel into East Berlin to tap into critical KGB and Soviet military telecommunication lines. The tunnel, crossing the border between the American and Soviet sectors, would have to be 1,500 feet (the length of the Empire State Building) with state-of-the-art equipment, built and operated literally under the feet of their Cold War adversaries. Success would provide the CIA and the British Secret Intelligence Service access to a vast treasure of intelligence. Exposure might spark a dangerous confrontation with the Soviets. Yet as the Allies were burrowing into the German soil, a traitor, code-named Agent Diamond by his Soviet handlers, was burrowing into the operation itself. . .

Betrayal in Berlin is Steve Vogel's heart pounding account of the operation. He vividly recreates post-war Berlin, a scarred, shadowy snake pit with thousands of spies and innumerable cover stories. It is also the most vivid account of George Blake, perhaps the most damaging mole of the Cold War. Drawing upon years of archival research, secret documents, and rare interviews with Blake himself, Vogel has crafted a true-life spy story as thrilling as the novels of John le Carré and Len Deighton.

Betrayal in Berlin includes 24 photos and two maps.

Reviews (2)

Kirkus Review

It's spy vs. spy in Khrushchev-era Berlin, and countless lives are in the balance.As the Cold War began to grind its way through the 1950s, notes former Washington Post military reporter Vogel (Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks That Saved the Nation, 2013, etc.), British and American intelligence agencies began to look for ways to intercept Soviet signals. The telephone was obvious, and British agents had already used the tunnel network of Vienna to tap into Soviet lines. But Berlin was the better locale: "Just as all roads led to Rome, all callsincluding to and from Moscowwere routed through Berlin." Thus, an ambitious tunneling project was put into motion only for the Allies to be thwarted when the Soviets learned of the tunnel, a discovery that afforded the possibility of "a big propaganda splash" when Khrushchev made a state visit to London. Why hadn't the tap been detected when it was first made? "Everyone must have been quite drunk," commented an East German technician after taking a look at the alien cables. For all that, Khrushchev kept mum, knowing that if he revealed that the Soviets knew about the tunnel, they would provide clues as to who had made them aware of the projectthat source being an overly confident British double agent named George Blake. In time, Blake was discovered and jailed only to break out of prison and make his way across the Iron Curtain in a daring escape. Combing through declassified documents and intelligence archives and drawing on interviews with Blake, Vogel delivers a swiftly moving, richly detailed, and sometimes improbable narrative, surpassing an earlier study of the tunnel affair, David Stafford's Spies Beneath Berlin (2003).As well paced as a le Carr novel, with deep insight into the tangled world of Cold War espionage. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Library Journal Review

Washington Post reporter Vogel tells the captivating story of British spy-turned-double agent George Blake (b. 1922), who was recruited by the Soviet Union because of his socialist leanings, knowledge of multiple languages, and rising position in MI5. The Berlin Crisis of 1961 magnified the need for accurate intelligence on the Soviet Union. Official communications from the area to East Berlin went through underground telephone cables, three of which ran within a few hundred yards of West Berlin. The CIA and MI5 hatched a plan to tunnel under a highway into East Berlin and tap the three main feeder cables handling most of the secret Soviet communication traffic. Before the tunnel could begin, Blake had passed preliminary drawings with location and plans to his Soviet handlers. Blake was considered such an important asset that the KGB did not inform political leaders for more than a year after the tunnel was finished, allowing major espionage leaks to the Americans and British. David Stafford's Spies Beneath Berlin presents a similar story while Roger Liles's The Berlin Tunnel offers a fictionalized accounting. VERDICT This captivating study will thrill World War II buffs as well as mystery readers of all ages. [See Prepub Alert, 3/17/19.]--Harry Willems, Great Bend, KS

Maps	p. xi
Prelude	p. 1
Part I The Sins Inside
Chapter 1 Black Friday	p. 15
Chapter 2 To Betray, You First Have to Belong	p. 24
Chapter 3 Bill Harvey, of All People	p. 48
Chapter 4 Ground Zero	p. 64
Chapter 5 A Hero's Return	p. 78
Chapter 6 The Big Prize Was Going to Be Berlin	p. 96
Chapter 7 Agent Diomid	p. 113
Chapter 8 This Was Explosive Material	p. 126
Part II The Warehouse
Chapter 9 A Special Assignment	p. 135
Chapter 10 It Was Getting So Complicated	p. 148
Chapter 11 The Dig	p. 163
Part III Ace in the Hole
Chapter 12 The Baby Was Born	p. 185
Chapter 13 Striking Gold	p. 199
Chapter 14 The Penetration of the CIA into Our Midst	p. 213
Chapter 15 The One-Man Tunnel	p. 227
Chapter 16 The Hottest intelligence Operation on the Face of the Planet	p. 239
Chapter 17 Berlin was on the Top of the World	p. 255
Chapter 18 There's a Fast One Coming	p. 269
Part IV A Nest of Spies
Chapter 19 A Sensational Story About American Espionage	p. 293
Chapter 20 The Invisible War	p. 310
Part V Among Friends
Chapter 21 Exit Berlin	p. 325
Chapter 22 Sniper	p. 344
Chapter 23 The Worst That Can Be Envisaged	p. 365
Chapter 24 Our James Bond	p. 387
Chapter 25 Mischief, Thou Art Afoot	p. 405
Chapter 26 A Free Man Again	p. 423
Epilogue	p. 443
Acknowledgments	p. 469
Note on Sources	p. 473
Selected Bibliography	p. 475
Notes	p. 481
Index	p. 519

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